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Prevention strategies

Learn how prevention reduces alcohol and other drug harm in young people: key risk and protective factors, and why community involvement makes programs work

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Evidence-informed prevention for youth

Evidence-informed alcohol and drug prevention for young people: lessons from Beat da Binge in Yarrabah, Queensland, and the Planet Youth model from Iceland.

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Prevention in Place 2025: what we learned about place-based prevention

Key lessons from Prevention in Place 2025: community-led change, building capacity across the system, and evaluation that works for communities.

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Ballarat and District Drug Action Partnership LDAT leading prevention through sport

Local Drug Action Team’s Community Action Plan is aimed at empowering young people aged 15 to 30, who are engaged in community sport.

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About Local Drug Action Teams

Local Drug Action Teams are community partnerships preventing alcohol and drug harm across Australia. See how they work, their impact and how to partner.

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Vaping toolkit

Evidence-informed ways communities can prevent youth vaping, from parent workshops to education campaigns, plus school options. A toolkit for LDATs.

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Community approaches

How communities can prevent alcohol and drug harm: what the latest evidence shows, five steps that make community approaches work, and how LDATs do it.

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Community engagement and mobilisation toolkit

Community engagement and mobilisation brings local people and organisations together to prevent alcohol and other drug harm. See how LDATs do it.

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Alcohol guide for local government

A guide and 10 practical tools from the ADF and VicHealth to help councils prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm in their communities.

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Develop a Community Action Plan

What a Community Action Plan (CAP) is and the five stages LDATs follow to plan, evaluate and budget a local alcohol and other drug prevention activity.

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