Building of prevention infrastructure: Interactive Platform for Mental Health Support and Risk Behavior Prevention
Interactive Platform for Mental Health Support and Risk Behavior Prevention (iprev.cz) is a tool to promote quality in prevention and to support prevention professionals both in schools and among external providers of prevention programmes for children and adolescents. IPREV helps to effectively build, manage, monitor and improve these programmes.
The platform consists of three main components: 1) national database of evidence-based prevention programmes for schools, 2) systemic support for the training of prevention workers and methodological support for their work and 3) component focused on quality assurance and safety in prevention including the SEPA monitoring and evaluation system and support for the certification system.
Through IPREV, the goal is to create a user-friendly environment that cultivates prevention activities in Czech schools in a way that is truly effective, economically achievable and sustainable, evidence-based, attractive to target groups, and safe at the same time. IPREV maximises the principle of a decentralised system and emphasises community-based prevention work as a functional and effective approach to prevention of risk behavior including addictions.
The content is going to be developed with regard to the current needs of practice, the collaboration with practitioners is planned to be extended and some parts of the platform are going to be translated into English so that it can serve as a source of evidence-based information for professionals. The platform makes it effectively connects the academic environment, current scientific knowledge with the implementers of prevention and with the target groups to whom prevention activities are addressed.
The contribution reflects a year of pilot operation of the platform and presents the successes, obstacles and challenges of implementation in practice. The content of the platform and the networking with experts will be presented.
