Project
LifeSkills
Funding
£1.3m for four years from December 2011 from the Big Lottery Fund's Realising Ambition programme
Background
Hundreds of millions each year are spent on specialist services and hospital admissions for young people involved in substance misuse, according to a report published this year by the Early Intervention Foundation.
LifeSkills, a programme developed in the US by Professor Gilbert Botvin, aims to prevent drug and alcohol misuse among young people by targeting the social and psychological factors behind it. The programme has been successfully scaled up in 35 countries and evaluated through randomised controlled trials over three decades. It has been given top ratings for its evidence base by organisations including the Early Intervention Foundation.
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