This website provides information about many forms of violence, including youth violence. The website houses violence and injury prevention resources for each World Health Organization region.
Links
This section contains links to other organisations and projects that deal with healthy nightlife issues.
Violence Prevention
This website provides a violence prevention resource for policy makers, practitioners and others working to tackle and prevent violence. It includes evidence of measures for what works to prevent violence, information on the Violence Prevention Alliance, news and other relevant resources.
NEWIP - Nightlife Empowerment and Well-being Implementation Project
NEWIP’s general aim is to reduce synthetic drug-related harm among European youth, using recreational settings as starting outreach spaces by integrating health promotion actions within recreational settings; developing community empowerment; adapting responses to partygoers' mobility and cultures; extending responses in terms of geographic coverage. NEWIP was carried out between 2011 and 2013.
NEW Net
NEW Net is a European network of community-based NGOs acting in the fields of health promotion and nightlife, of nightlife professionals, local and regional authorities and agencies, treatment professionals and scientific researchers. The NEW Net is issued from the Nightlife Empowerment & Well-being Implementation Project (NEWIP) (2011-2013).
IREFREA
European research network exploring recreational life of young people and risk factors for drug use, alcohol consumption, risky sexual behaviour and other health issues among adolescents and children
EUSPR - European Society for Prevention Research
The EUSPR promotes the development of prevention science, and its application to practice so as to promote human health and well-being through high quality research, evidence-based interventions, policies and practices.
ERANID – European Research Area Network Illicit Drugs
ERANID focuses on strengthening cross-border research (mainly in the EU) in various aspects of the illicit drugs problem. The ERANID research database contains information gathered in the course of the ERANID project during 2013 and 2014. Principally, it contains details of research projects on illicit drugs carried out since 2010 within the six ERANID countries and funded by the European Committee: Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Efus - European Forum for Urban Security
Efus is a non-governmental network of 250 members from 16 countries. Network members are local authorities and associated institutions and partners working in the field of urban security policies and crime prevention. Efus’ mission is to foster multilateral exchanges throughout Europe, but also with other continents, about locally-developed practices and experiences.
DrugWise
DrugWise (formerly known as Drugscope) is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs, alcohol and tobacco, whose aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related harms. The website provides substance information, policies, news, events, publications and other relevant resources.
Club Health
The Club Health - Healthy and Safer Nightlife of Youth project, with 20 associated and 15 collaborating partners from 15 EU Member States and Norway, supports the European Commission in its public health and other related strategies to reduce the social costs and harm associated with nightlife youth risk behaviours. The project aims to reduce diseases (especially addictions and sexually transmitted infections), accidents, injuries and violence among youth with a focus on specific environments of nightlife.