The curriculum Let’s Grow up Together has gained new educators in the Sarajevo Canton. In the 2024/2025 school year, they will work with their students on developing and enhancing life skills, promoting health, and focusing on addiction prevention and risky behavior prevention through a series of workshops. The program is designed for children in grades 1–4 and is based on developing life skills such as empathy, communication skills, stress management, and many more. These skills will empower children to resist peer pressure and face life challenges. Due to high interest,

On Thursday, September 25, 2024, a training session was held for the new cycle of the Guiding Stars program, which begins its activities in October. This year, 14 volunteers from the previous cycle continue to serve as guiding stars, and they are joined by seven new enthusiastic young people.  The program coordinator, Kerima Delibašić, used the introductory training to help the volunteers connect, improve their teamwork skills, and explain what lies ahead in this cycle.  The training was held at the NARKO-NE Association premises, and the volunteers got to know

In the past school year, the program Who Actually Wins? was implemented in ten high schools in Tuzla Canton. In this regard, the Minister of Education and Science of Tuzla Canton, Ahmed Omerović, held a meeting with representatives of the Addiction Prevention Association NARKO-NE to discuss the continuation of their cooperation. The meeting was attended by Amir Hasanović, Executive Director of NARKO-NE, Sanela Pekić, Prevention Program Specialist at NARKO-NE, Zumra Šahović, Education Advisor at the Pedagogical Institute of Tuzla Canton, and Meliha Bijedić, Professor at the Faculty of Education and

Let’s Grow Up Together program for promoting health and personal development in children from grades 1 to 4 is based on the approach of enhancing life skills. This includes developing self-awareness, empathy, communication skills, stress management, critical thinking, and many other skills that will empower children and help them face risks and choose a healthy lifestyle. During the 2023/2024 school year, the Let’s Grow Up Together program was implemented in nine elemetary schools in the Sarajevo Canton, specifically in: Vrhbosna Elementary School, Saburina Elementary School, Second Elementary School Hrasnica, 6th

During the 2023/2024 school year, the Who Actually Wins? program was successfully implemented in 20 high schools across Sarajevo Canton and Tuzla Canton. In Sarajevo Canton, ten high schools participated in the program: Fifth Gymnasium, High School of Electrical Engineering, Gymnasium Obala, High School of Medicine in Bjelava, Gymnasium Dobrinja, First Gymnasium, High School of Applied Arts, High School for Traffic and Communications, High School Center Hadžići, and High School of Graphic Technologies, Design and Multimedia. In Tuzla Canton, workshops were also conducted in ten schools, including: Mixed High School

From October 2023 to June 2024, 24 volunteers served as Guiding Stars, volunteering in five primary schools, three high schools, and at the Educational Center of the Sarajevo Canton. In the primary schools, volunteers provided learning support to more than 20 students who needed it, contributing to literacy and the prevention of addiction at the primary school level. Additionally, the Guiding Stars conducted eight pilot workshops in high schools on topics such as addiction prevention, coping skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, emotional recognition, and more. More than 200 students participated in

The Association for Addiction Prevention NARKO-NE has been working for many years on the prevention of gambling and betting, implementing various activities aimed at addressing this issue. At the panel discussion titled Prevention of Children’s and Youth’s Participation in Gambling, held on May 7th, 2024, in Tuzla, participants discussed the social context surrounding gambling, legal regulations, and the accessibility and availability of betting shops to children and youth. The panelists were experts in the fields of education, psychology, and addiction prevention: Prof. Dr. Meliha Bijedić, Full Professor at the Faculty

Who Actually Wins? is a licensed prevention program aimed at preventing youth involvement in gambling. The Association for Addiction Prevention NARKO-NE, with the support of the Institute for Development of Youth KULT, has obtained the license to implement the program in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Educational-Rehabilitation Faculty of the University of Zagreb (Croatia). The prerequisite for obtaining the license was the Train the Trainer training conducted by a research team from Zagreb, which included staff from the NARKO-NE Association and external collaborators. The trainers for Bosnia and Herzegovina, who,

Iako je primarni fokus preventivnog programa Ko zapravo pobjeđuje? rad sa srednjoškolcima, za efikasnu prevenciju potrebno je uključiti cijelu zajednicu. U nizu preventivnih aktivnosti na ovu temu, Udruženje za prevenciju ovisnosti NARKO-NE je 28.2. u Gradačcu u MSŠ Hasan Kikić i 5.3. u Srednjoj ekonomskoj školi u Sarajevu održalo okrugle stolove sa roditeljima i nastavnim osobljem. Izlagači na okruglom stolu bili su: prof.dr. Meliha Bijedić, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli, dr.sc. Samra Mahmutović, v.d. načelnika, Zavod za psihološku i socijalnu zaštitu, UKC Tuzla i mr.sc. Sanela Pekić, stručna saradnica za