UPC Serie para profesionales

El UPC para profesionales está diseñado para proporcionar conocimientos, habilidades y competencias a los profesionales en el campo de la prevención, de manera tal que puedan tener un mejor entendimiento acerca de los elementos clave de la prevención basada en la evidencia (BE) y de las intervenciones de prevención BE más efectivas que se encuentran disponibles actualmente.

Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 1: Prevención basada en la familia 87 horas

Esta área de estudio ofrece una descripción general de la ciencia inherente a las intervenciones de prevención basadas en la familia, y los métodos utilizados para intervenir de manera efectiva a fin de prevenir el uso de sustancias en niños, niñas y adolescentes. También proporciona aprendizaje empírico en algunas de las habilidades utilizadas en métodos efectivos de intervención basados en la familia para preparar a los implementadores de prevención a participar en tales programas. El área de estudio consta de siete campos.

UPC 11: Understanding Families: Diversity and Context

This courses presents research about the diversity of families within and across countries, how family structures differ and how families may function differently. It also discusses how family practices influence youth substance use and related problems and some basic skills for working with families.

UPC 12: Interventions with Families - Basic Models and Skills

This course discusses general models of interventions with families such as the Family Partnership and Family Development Models. It also presents some examples of evidence-based interventions that prevent substance use.

UPC 13: Family-based Interventions: Skills & Evidence-Based Programs

This course presents some of the best family programmes with the best evidence that target families with children of different ages such as: Nurse Family Partnership Model as an example of Home Visiting models for helping families of infants and toddlers; The Incredible Years and Dare To Be You intervention models to intervene with families of young children; Strengthening Families for Parents and Youth 10-14; and Multi-systemic Therapy intervention models which demonstrate skills used by professionals to intervene with families of adolescents.

UPC 14: Interventions with Groups - Management and Processes

This course describes the concepts related to the management and processes of conducting multi-family group interventions that include identifying stages of group dynamics that occur in this type of intervention, characteristics of effective group leaders, skills of organizing a group, some common problems that occur with the structure and process of running family-based interventions in groups and challenges that might happen in groups.

UPC 15: Barriers and Challenges to Family Interventions

This course examines on some of the common barriers and solutions to implementing effective family-based prevention programmes in the community, such as, local customs and practices that may limit family participation, and some of the possible solutions that help families participate, despite barriers. It also examines different reasons for adapting programmes and illustrates the best practices in adapting programmes to make them match with the local culture.

UPC 16: Interventions with Families: Ethics, Supervision and Self- Care

This course explains the basic principles of and application to working with families based on a model of ethical decision-making. It also examines concepts related to basic child maltreatment, intimate partner violence definitions and reporting, elder abuse, suicide and homicide in youth and adults, and burnout as well as steps for creating a self-care plan.

UPC 17: Monitoring and Evaluation of Family Programs

This course discusses the importance of and application of monitoring and evaluation to family- based prevention interventions, the process for developing a monitoring system, and the purposes of process and outcome evaluation for family-based prevention interventions.

Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 2: Prevención basada en la escuela – 84horas

Esta área de estudio introduce la ciencia detrás de las intervenciones y políticas de prevención basadas en la escuela, y los métodos utilizados para mejorar el clima escolar, fortalecer las políticas y participar directamente en las intervenciones de prevención en el aula. Ofrece un área de estudio para los administradores sobre sobre planificación y estrategias efectivas para abordar la política y el clima escolar; y una segunda área de trabajo para maestros principalmente en intervenciones en el salón de clases. Los ocho cursos disponibles son los siguientes:

UPC 21: Role of Schools in Prevention

This course provides the background information and skills about evidence-based substance use prevention in the school setting. It also builds a knowledge and skill base for school staff to implement and sustain substance use prevention programming in schools.

UPC 22: Building Teams for Comprehensive School- Based Prevention

This course describes how to develop and contribute to the Prevention Leadership Action Team (PLAT) that will be responsible for implementing Evidence-based Prevention Interventions (EBIs) in the school. The PLAT is the infrastructure that will support the selection, implementation and evaluation of comprehensive substance use prevention initiatives.

UPC 23: Creating Substance Use Prevention Policies in Schools

This course focuses on the process for examining school policy and how to include stakeholders in the policy development and implementation process.

UPC 24: Creating A School Prevention Climate

This course explores the concept of a school prevention climate and how that positively affects learning and helps prevent problem behaviour, including substance use.

UPC 25: Selecting Evidence-Based School Prevention Curricula

This course describes how to match the needs and climate of the school and classroom to the specific focus of these evidence-based interventions.

UPC 26: Action Planning to Create a Comprehensive Substance Use Prevention Initiative

This course outlines the cyclical implementation process that the Prevention Leadership Action Team can use to successfully implement programmes, as well as policies and practices to help children and youth make positive decisions about substances.

UPC 27: Positive Classroom Climate

This course describes how to create a positive engaging, protective environment in the classroom regardless of what prevention programme is selected. Such an environment facilitates learning and helps students connect to the goals of the school. It also provides an opportunity to work in teams and practice skills during this course.

UPC 28: Interactive Teaching Skills

This course focuses on interactive teaching skills, including modelling and practicing these skills during the training sessions.

Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 3: Prevención basada en el lugar de trabajo – 85 horas

Esta área de estudio presenta la ciencia subyacente a las políticas e intervenciones en materia de prevención basadas en los lugares de trabajo. Y los métodos y estrategias que estos lugares pueden utilizar para mejorar su entorno y su cultura. También proporciona un aprendizaje empírico en la planificación de cambios en las políticas del lugar de trabajo y otros esfuerzos de prevención del uso de sustancias, lo que permite a los empleados evitar su consumo. Consta de los siete cursos siguientes:

UPC 31: The Role of the Workplace in Prevention

This course describes the role of the workplace in prevention that includes how workplaces in communities impact the local community, how workplace and workforce substance use can impact different types of workplaces, workplace cultures, structures, environments and activities that reduce the likelihood of substance use among workers and workplace characteristics that may increase the likelihood of worker substance use. It also articulates the ethical principles guiding workplace prevention.

UPC 32: Why the Workplace is an Important Setting for Prevention

This course discusses the costs of substance use among adults and how it affects local workplace, association between substance use and a variety of workplace performance and interpersonal problems and the components of a “business case for prevention” draft.

UPC 33: Key Components of Workplace Substance Use Prevention Policies

This course defines the concept of stakeholders and how to identify stakeholders in the individual organisation. It also describe how different strategies target the workplace environment, social norms and interactions,

UPC 34: Developing Effective Workplace Substance Use Prevention Policies

This course examines the application of the 12 UNODC principles to policy development in the workplace, selection criteria for stakeholders in the development of policy and programme implementation, importance of substance use prevention and policies to stakeholders and others in the workplace and community, and utilisation of the Workplace Policy Template in developing a workplace prevention policy.

UPC 35: Overview of UNODC International Standards on Drug Use Prevention

This course discusses the characteristics of and criteria for evidence-based workplace interventions as well as reviews and selects evidence-based interventions for applicability to the individual workplace.

UPC 36: Implementing and Adapting Workplace-Based Programs

This course explains the steps in the implementation process and strategies to address the barriers to implementing prevention interventions.

UPC 37: Monitoring and Evaluation as Applied to the Workplace

This course describes the importance of evaluation in the workplace, and the concept and process of process evaluation and the collaborative model of evaluation. It also outlines how to select the most appropriate evaluation design for the individual workplace.

Área de especialidad 4: Prevención basada en el medio ambiente

Esta área de estudio revisa la ciencia detrás de las políticas e intervenciones de prevención efectivas basadas en el medio ambiente, que se centran en estrategias comunitarias para prevenir el uso indebido del tabaco y el alcohol; y el tráfico y uso de drogas ilegales en diversos entornos y los métodos utilizados para identificar e implementar con éxito estas intervenciones. También ofrece un aprendizaje empírico en la planificación e implementación de cambios en la política ambiental y otros esfuerzos de prevención del uso de sustancias en toda la comunidad.

UPC 41: Description of the Environmental Approach

This course examines the components of the Environment-based Intervention (EI) track, planning framework, and Etiology Model. It also provides an opportunity to think strategically about how to plan interventions that will last, and reflect the specific culture(s) of an individual’s community.

UPC 42: Assessment of Geographic Area and Need for Environmental Interventions

This course explains how to do an assessment of the local community including collection and use of the assessment data, define the geographic area or community and identify the specific environments within the community where alcohol, tobacco and other substances are sold, purchased and used. It also examines how to collect and use statistical data to describe the extent and nature of substance use and related consequences.

UPC 43: Strategically Build Partnerships to Address Needs - Building a Prevention Team

The course describes the process of building partnerships with other organisations, agencies and individuals in the local community to address substance use prevention needs by building a prevention team representing organizations and groups such as businesses, law enforcement and other governmental agencies, the health care community, and educational institutions.

UPC 44: Evidence-Based Environmental Interventions and Policies

This course examines some evidence-based environmental substance use prevention strategies to address substance use and related problems in the local community or country, and how they can affect substance use availability and norms through regulations and enforcement. It also explains how to identify and implement appropriate environmental interventions.

UPC 45: Policy Advocacy

This course explains the steps involved in policy

UPC 46: Development of a Community Strategic Environmental Prevention Plan

This course discusses the process for the development of a comprehensive community environmental prevention action plan that includes developing a logic model indicating environmental intervention strategies and how they will impact targeted outcomes, identifying and discussing steps involved in each environmental intervention strategy, and anticipating challenges and how to overcome them.

UPC 47: Monitoring and Evaluation

This course examines the definitions and purposes of monitoring and evaluation, use of assessment data to establish baseline, target outcomes, and monitor intervention effects, steps for conducting a process evaluation to determine how well an intervention is implemented, and how to use data for ongoing surveillance and writing an evaluation report.

Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 5: Prevención basada en los medios de comunicación – 86 horas

Esta área de estudio discute la ciencia inherente a las intervenciones efectivas de prevención del uso de sustancias basadas en los medios de comunicación, con un enfoque en el desarrollo de comunicaciones persuasivas exitosas. También ofrece un aprendizaje empírico en la planificación de mensajes y medios para llegar a los padres y jóvenes en los esfuerzos de prevención del uso de sustancias. Comprende los siguientes seis cursos:

UPC 51: Introduction to Media and Their Use in Prevention

This course presents basic information relative to media campaigns including the steps for effective campaign planning. It also underscores the importance of understanding culture and the use of social media.

UPC 52: The Nature of Media and Theories of How the Media Affect the Audience

This course describes how the Theory of Planned Behavior forms the foundation for persuasion and is applied in media messaging and media campaigns. It also explains the importance of Hovland’s Message Learning Theory of Persuasion and how to apply it to media messages and campaigns.

UPC 53: Practical Application of Persuasion in Substance Use Prevention

This course discusses ways in which the media can be used to people avoid substance use. It also explains how to develop a media campaign to target substance use problems.

UPC 54: Improving the Impact of Media Campaigns

This course describes the media’s role in prevention and how they work in persuasive prevention. It also presents the advantages of mass media for communication, namely Reach, Return and Rapid Response.

UPC 55: Monitoring and Evaluating Media Messages

This course focus on various aspects related to monitoring and evaluating media messages such as developing measures of the media campaign’s audience’s knowledge, attitudes, and intentions to use psychoactive substances, using pre-and post-assessments of these measures to determine campaign effectiveness, and determining if persuasive effects found on immediate post-campaign measurement persist over time, at the individual and community levels. It also describes the data necessary to inform the development of effective substance use prevention campaigns in the home context.

UPC 56: Applications to Practice

This course provides an opportunity for the application of knowledge acquired and skills learned in the preceding courses to developing an effective media campaign.

Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 6: Prevención basada en la comunidad – 89 horas

Esta área de estudio explora la ciencia subyacente a los enfoques de sistemas para las intervenciones de prevención y presenta los métodos principales para planificar sistemas de implementación en toda la comunidad. También ofrece un aprendizaje empírico en la planificación y el trabajo con las partes interesadas para desarrollar servicios de intervención de prevención. Consta de los siete cursos siguientes:

UPC 61: Rationale and Conceptual Framework

This course underscores the importance of substance use prevention in the community, micro- and macro- level environmental influences in communities, rationale for using teams to deliver EBIs to a community, need for multi-component prevention, and importance for planning interventions systemically and identifying environmental influences to inform the selection of EBIs. It also outlines a plan for teaching these concepts to a community team.

UPC 62: Community-Based Implementation Systems

This course presents the benefits of using a community-based implementation system, identifies reasons why some community teams are successful, and phases of team development as well as how they influence team

UPC 63: Building a Community-Based Implementation System

This course provides an opportunity to identify and practice strategies that build capacity and foster teamwork, skills related to the roles and responsibilities of team members, and skills and abilities of effective team leaders and members in leadership roles. It also helps the team anticipate, adapt to and plan for change, identify common barriers and develop strategies to overcome challenges to effective teamwork as well as communication skills to teach others about the benefits of using EBIs.

UPC 64: EBI Selection and Implementation

This course discusses needs assessment and data sources, strategies for building team capacity, matching community needs to the most appropriate EBIs, the importance of implementation fidelity and the need for adaptations when appropriate as well as the steps for developing a comprehensive implementation plan.

UPC 65: Monitoring and Evaluation

This course underscores the importance of evaluation for implementers, evaluations that measure progress, intended outcomes and impact on the community, steps for monitoring team processes and EBI implementation as well as a data system to collect and use information. It also explains how data are used for continuous quality improvement.

UPC 66: Sustainability

This course outlines the components of an implementation plan and its application to the community, use of logic models to support high quality implementation and sustainability of EBIs and the community team, sustainability inputs and characteristics of healthy teams, application of organisational and environmental strategies for the sustainability of EBIs and well-functioning teams and the implementation of sustainability concepts to a community team.

UPC 67: Prevention Systems Thinking and Networking to Build Capacity

This course explores how teams can link to multiple systems and influence multi-level interventions across community domains, basic concepts and benefits of “prevention systems thinking”, ways that community-based teams can network with larger prevention systems within and outside the community and technical assistance assessment.

Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 7: Monitoreo y evaluación de políticas de intervención- 63 horas

Esta área de estudios presenta métodos de evaluación primarios con un enfoque en el monitoreo y la evaluación de procesos utilizados para medir los resultados de las intervenciones y políticas de prevención del uso de sustancias basadas en la evidencia. También ofrece un aprendizaje empírico en la planificación y el seguimiento de los resultados a través de ejercicios y una práctica completada al final de la pista. Esta área de estudio cuenta con ocho cursos:

UPC 71: Overview of Monitoring and Evaluation

This course reviews key concepts related to monitoring and evaluation, such as its definition and purposes. It also examines the monitoring and evaluation system, and discusses the role of monitoring and evaluation in the Implementation Cycle.

UPC 72: Logic Models

This course explains the definition, purposes, structure and limitations of logic models and how they are linked to the monitoring and evaluation system. It also provides examples from two evidence-based substance use prevention interventions, namely LifeSkills Training and Project Towards No

UPC 73: Types of Data and Data Collection

This course describes two types of data, that is, quantitative and qualitative data. It also explains how to define and describe different data collection methods and how to apply them in an evaluation.

UPC 74: Data Analysis and Reporting

This course examines different types of data analysis strategies for qualitative and quantitative data and effective ways to report the findings from monitoring and evaluation activities. It also focuses on how to collect, analyze and display data and report the results of implemented monitoring and evaluation activities.

UPC 75: Process Evaluation and Program Monitoring

This course reviews the concepts and procedures for programme monitoring and process evaluation. It also explains how to develop a process evaluation and programme monitoring plan that is linked to needs assessments and the logic model process

UPC 76: Outcome Evaluation

This course discusses the basic principles and practices of the outcome evaluation design and methods such as outcome measures, data collection, data analysis, and reporting.

UPC 77: Ethics

This course addresses the ethics underlying monitoring and evaluation when involving the community, collecting and storing data, reporting and ownership of evaluation findings. It also emphasizes the importance of maintaining confidentiality.

UPC 78: Monitoring and Evaluation Plan: Review of Practicum 2

This course explains various methods for conducting monitoring and evaluation, components of the monitoring and evaluation system, and how to build logic models based on an understanding of the community or target population needs and intervention intent.

UPC 10: Introducción a la serie del Currículo de Prevención Universal para profesionales

48 horas de capacitación

El Curso Básico está compuesto de 10 módulos que representan diferentes aspectos de la ciencia de la prevención y su aplicación a la práctica. Está diseñado para proporcionar a los participantes una base en el conocimiento y las habilidades necesarias para emprender programas de prevención basados en la evidencia a nivel comunitario.