RESOURCES

A Trainer's Tool Kit

The Transdrug project's main product is A Trainer's Tool Kit, a publication offering case reports on training needs assessments carried out by the partners and articles that take on a broader view of substance use related training. Available in English, Finnish, Dutch and Slovak language (soon also in Italian), the Tool Kit can be used as a handbook in training planning or as training material.

Addiction services and addiction training in partner countries

The Transdrug project produced general overviews of partner countries' addiction service and training systems. The overviews below are intended to help put into a context the findings relating to training needs presented in A Trainer's Tool Kit, and to serve as information source in student placement.

• Novotna G. & al.: Services for psychoactive substance users and training of experts working in the field in the Slovak Republic.
• The Italian Transdrug team: The Health Service System, addiction services and addiction training in Italy.
• Osseman D.: Dutch drug situation, drug policy and drug services.
• Osseman D.: The elusive history of Dutch drug policy: experiments with Delphi and scenario methods.

Perspectives on addiction training in Finland

Perspectives on addiction training in Finland is a collection of articles that shed light on some of the current issues and trends in Finnish addiction training. The articles are written by Finnish Transdrug partners and by other experts involved in the development of addiction training within the A-Clinic Foundation or in other organisations.

Publication information:

Montonen M. (ed.):Perspectives on addiction training in Finland. A-Clinic Foundation Report Series no. 49. A-Clinic Foundation 2003.
ISBN 952-9894-85-6 ISSN 1459-3939

Perspectives on addiction training in Finland - pdf 411 kb

The publication is available also in Finnish.

Use of ICT in the addictions field

One of the Transdrug project's aims was to promote the use of information and communication technology among project participants and in the addictions field more generally. The articles below approach the topic from different angles: some focus on ICT training implemented in the framework of the project while others describe the ways in which ICT is used in partner's addiction services.

• Klempova D.: ICT training for the Slovak Transdrug partnership.
• Di Furia L. & al.: Use of new information and communication technologies among drug addiction service staff in Veneto.
• Osseman D.: ICT at Jellinek.

Further reading:
Global Youthnet publication Using the Internet for Drug Abuse Prevention
http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_action.html

Sources of information

• Information on alcohol and drug issues
• Training needs assessment methods
• Vocational training in Europe
• European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training Cedefop
  http://www.cedefop.eu.int/
• The Electronic Training Village
  http://www.trainingvillage.gr/etv/
• European Training Foundation ETF
  http://www.etf.eu.int/
• European Community Vocational Training Action Programme Leonardo da Vinci
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/leonardo.html
• Eurydice - The information network on education in Europe
  http://www.eurydice.org

Updated 22.12.2003