Skills for adolescence - results Tamara Milić

Review Preventive program (1998); Elective subjects; Subject topics „Program strengthening families” (14 schools) „Skills for adolescence“: self - management, self – awareness, responsible decision making, relationship skills, social awareness, involved: 17 schools, 82 teachers and professionals, pupils from the 6th to the 9th grade

Research - Methodology Undertaken from September 15 to November 15 2017. Instruments: Focus groups and Interviews with students; Focus groups and Questionnaire for parents; Questionnaire and Interviews with facilitators; Interview with policy makers; Workshops Overview (subject and content). Participants: 43 facilitators completed questionnaires, 11 facilitators in interviews; 13 parents completed the questionnaire, 14 parents participated in focus groups; 43 pupils in focus groups and 12 in interviews, one interview with decision maker.

Facilitators: program is very useful and should be continued and expanded Students: program as interesting, useful and different from other school subjects, provides interaction and initiative, acquired skills to deal with conflicts; gained empathy, strengthened self-confidence, ability to accept and understand diversity Parents: school reinforces its educational role and cares about the wider social context Conclusion - positive

Conclusion - challenges Oversized groups Schedule and dynamic: motivating students to participate once a week (usually last class) Overlapping the contents of various program Internal motivation of facilitators

Recommendation for the program improvement To design a universal preventive program for all elementary school grades as a compilation of existing programs Create and apply adequate ways of motivating pupils and facilitators to participate in the program, promote children's products and works at school level and among parents Include: prevention of peer, gender, cyber and social networks violence, hazards related to computer games, gambling; sexual development and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, correlation psychological and physical health, etc. Citations need to be simplified and age-adjusted, especially for younger students, implement in smaller groups - up to 15 students

In the next period Early grades program Further implementation Expand programme to the new schools on the south and north