Program Language: Latvian

PreVenture^® is a prevention and early intervention program for youth aged 12 to 18 years. The program offers brief, workshops that teach personality-specific cognitive-behavioral skills to youth to promote mental health and reduce the risk of substance use.

PreVenture^® aims to promote self-efficacy and cognitive-behavioral skills among youth to help them cope with the numerous developmental challenges that many young people face, such as academic stress, peer pressure, interpersonal conflict, and identity development. This personalized approach aims to empower young people to build resilience and develop effective coping strategies to help them better manage their personality style. The program is delivered in two 90-minute personality-focused workshops (either online or in-person) either in a school or community setting and involves group and individual exercises, is manual-based, but guided by a trained facilitator.

KiVa Antibullying Program is a bullying prevention program for schools offering basic education. It provides feasible and ready-made tools for teachers to both prevent bullying from happening and intervene in it. The program has three core components: prevention, intervention, and monitoring. Prevention is targeted at the whole school community. Teachers implement the program by delivering a set of student lessons to target grades (1, 4, and 7). Intervention is carried out by a designated KiVa team that is trained to follow the guided procedure to tackle bullying cases. The prevalence of bullying and victimization is monitored via a yearly student and staff survey which is filled in online. The program offers online learning platforms and video resources in addition to printed materials such as parent’s guide or teacher manuals.