1. Helping Youth Succeed: What Vermont can Learn from Iceland’s Approach to Prevention May 15, 2019

4. 190 delegates - 19 countries

5. Please prepare to participate in Polls #1 and 2

6. Vermont’s Progress on Substance Misuse

9. New Vision for Icelandic Society

10. Icelandic Approach Assumptions

11. Where to Focus Prevention Efforts?

12. Where to Focus Prevention Efforts?

16. Core Steps

17. Core Steps - Detailed

18. Rates of students in 9th and 10th grade who spend time (often/almost always) with their parents during weekdays

19. Rates of students in 9th and 10th grade that participate in sports with a team or club four times per week or more often

20. Rates of students in 9th and 10th grade who have been outside after 10 pm, 3 times+ in the past week

22. Alcohol onset – From the 2009 Nordic Youth Study

25. Key Differences in the Iceland Approach

26. Please prepare to participate in Polls #3 and 4

28. I think we are a little different here
I think we are a little different here.... send a clear message about risk and protective factors

33. Conclusions

35. Finland’s Focus on Youth Rights, Youth Workers, and the Third Space

36. Please prepare to participate in Polls #5 and 6

37. Moving Toward A Vermont Model

38. Prevention is being able to…

39. This is Doable