A true mobile tool for preventing addictive behaviors, the Youth Health Bus “Kéfa?” from the General Council travels the department with the aim of establishing a dialogue with middle school students about the risks associated with the use of legal and illegal drugs, developing their critical thinking and autonomy in relation to pressures, working with teachers on a prevention program to sustain interventions with middle school students (in accordance with the recommendations of the National Education), and raising awareness among parents and families, through conferences, about risk behaviors.
Actions are also organized with police, gendarmes, associations, and more.
Born from the reflection of Young General Councillors during their 2004 mandate, the Youth Health Bus is funded by the General Council. The intervention is carried out by one prevention facilitator, one psychologist, and one sociologist coordinator from Mutualité Française.
A bus dressed in the colors of the Kéfa? campaign
In 2010, the CGJ conducted an awareness and prevention operation on addictions: alcohol, drugs, and the internet. The originality of this communication, truly expressive and innovative, led the General Council to dress its Youth Health Bus in the colors of the Kéfa? campaign.
A brochure to combat misconceptions: Alcohol makes you too strong, too handsome!!!
Printed in 50,000 copies, this brochure offers wise advice to avoid the pitfalls of alcohol, drugs, and also cyber addictions. Rich in testimonials, “true or false” questionnaires, quizzes, it is intended to be uncompromising, highlighting the risks associated with drugs: sexual abuse, alcohol poisoning, accidents, and dispelling false beliefs: alcohol makes you too strong, alcohol warms you up… It is distributed in all middle schools in the department and in places for young people (youth health crossroads, youth information center, local missions,…)
Alcohol, drugs, and the internet, the new dangers for young people:
6 out of 10 young people aged 17 (60%) report having been drunk during their lifetime, 51% in the last twelve months
15 years: the average age of first intoxication
11% of 15-24 year-olds in Europe claim to engage in binge drinking (consumption of 5 or more drinks in a single occasion)*
Some figures:
School year 2009-2010: interventions with about 4,300 students in 31 middle schools
8.3 / 10: student satisfaction index and 9 / 10 for parents.
- kéfa? “what are you doing?”
2008 figures, ESCAPAD surveys in France
* 2009 figures, “EU citizens’ attitudes towards alcohol” survey in Europe
