About the Program
Mentor Arabia’s Capacity Development program is a comprehensive, hands-on workshop targeting professionals, governmental social workers, educators, and others working in the field focusing on topics related to life skills, and the prevention of risky behaviors and drugs.
Objectives
- To develop the training capacities and life skills of partner staff
- To increase the knowledge of partner staff around risky behaviors and drug prevention-related topics
- To enable partner staff of carrying out drug prevention activities at the community level
SDGs
Practitioners
- Prevention Science
- Critical Theories
- Employee’s skills and competencies
- Definition of drugs and their types
- Categories at risk of drug use
- Effects of Drugs
- Drugs and sexually transmitted diseases
- Drug Prevention Strategies
- Most Vulnerable cases for risky behaviors
- Educational Techniques
- Facilitation Skills
- Planning and managing peer-to-peer sessions
- Self-esteem skills
- Emotion management skills
- Critical thinking and media messages
- Communication skills
- How to say no – peer pressure
- Stress management skills
- Time management skills
- Decision-making skills
- Assertive behavior skills
- Empathy skills
- Methods of peer education
- Implementation and evaluation of peer-to-peer sessions
- Partner with governmental entities and local actors
- Conduct training workshop targeting 3 main modules: Risky behaviors prevention, Life Skills, and Training skills
- Monitor and Evaluate the program
- Document lessons learned and disseminate knowledge
- Practitioners in the field of prevention
- Training setting
- On ground
- 2 weeks
- Up to 30 sessions
- 90 minutes per session
- 15 to 20 participants per session