DAP has been implementing youth congresses and youth forum since 2002. The youth programme model was revised in 2012 with the aim of providing youth with a platform to gain knowledge and skills to implement their own prevention projects in their countries. DAP in collaboration with the Organization of American States (OAS) developed the ‘Substance Use Prevention Curriculum for Youth’. The main objective of the curriculum is to have a standard prevention curricula for youth/youth leaders (age group of 18 to 24) in line with the existing UPC and UTC.

An Expert Working Group meeting with 11 participants was held in London, the United Kingdom from 4 to 5 September, 2019 to review the topics and materials developed by the writers. A group of experts from the UAE, Seychelles, Maldives, Jamaica and a representative from the UNODC discussed the details of each module developed by writers and trainers from the United States and DAP.