VAD – Belgium

Partypeers objectives are:

- Informing and sensitizing about the effects and risks of alcohol and illegal drugs use in recreational settings.
- Informing and sensitizing about the effects and risks of alcohol, illegal drugs use and tiredness on driving skills.
- Informing about the legal aspects of driving under influence of alcohol and illegal drugs.
- Drivers take a break (pit stop) on their way home.

Volunteers give information and advice to youngsters who take drugs, or who are thinking about taking drugs. The goal is that party people can make informed choices about their health and their night out. The volunteers do not take a point of view against or pro drugs, we acknowledge drugs as an inconvenient reality containing risks that can be prevented or minimized by specific actions/interventions. All the info is collected and available on website(s).
In this campaign the volunteers will, in addition to their normal topics, inform drivers on the effects of alcohol, drugs use and tiredness on driving skills (using flyers and banners). They will motivate drivers not to drink or use drugs during the party and they motivate them to take some rest from time to time in our relax seeds. After the party the sober drivers receive a goody bag with (fruit, a drink and some small gadgets). The drivers will be motivated to make a ‘pit stop’ at one of the petrol stations that we selected on the main highways on the way home. If they stop there (to take a break or do a pawernap) they receive a leaflet with a ‘pit stop code’. At home they can enter this code on our campaign website and choose their price.

For the campaign you need: 2 banners, 10 bean bags, Bracelets for the drivers, 1.000 Information leaflets on drink/drug/tired driving; 1.000 Goody bag: free drink, fruit, small gadget, leaflet with ‘pitstop locations’; webpage for this campaign + registration form for the ‘pitstopcode’; 300 Prices for drivers that make a ‘pit stop’: A summer holiday for 4 persons, Cd's, t-shirts, tickets for parties, cinema tickets, …; Alcohol tests; Transport for material and for volunteers; T-shirt for volunteers; Information stand with leaflets; Earplugs; Candy.