1. Skills for adolescence - results
Tamara Milić

2. 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

3. Research - Methodology
Undertaken from September 15 to November
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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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