The Safer club - text 5

The Safer club

A Safer club activities used to be a part of the project “Decreasing Alcohol Misuse by Youth in Pilsen” in the year 2007. They respond to needs indentified by the workgroup “Alcohol and Youth in Pilsen”, that was established by councillor Ing. Petr Rund and is inspired by foreign projects.

B “In fact, there isn’t any club or any discotheque where alcohol and also other psychoactive substances are not consumed. That’s why you probably won’t meet club staff that has no problems with aggressive visitors. It’s also about responsibility to youths who have chosen this place to spend their leisure time and to have fun there. Preventive services professionals can make the communication about these topics easier. The responsibility for social problem cannot be applied only to club promoters,” Petr Rund said.

C The Safer club is trying to help to ensure high quality background of rock and other clubs and support their satisfactory run of nightlife in the city. The club cooperates with several Pilsen rock and disco clubs for example Star and Watt. It offers preventive services to a group of clubbers and disco-goers and encourages them to take responsibility for their behaviour (misuse of alcohol and other psychoactive substances, health damage, property damage) as well. It also tries to establish partner discussion among owners, promoters, prevention services and safety guards to ensure public health and to decrease health, social and property damages caused by nightlife, misuse of alcohol and other psychoactive substances.

D “Important part of our work is to introduce these needs and activities to public and local authorities, so that they can highlight them and ensure safer environment for nightlife. We create posters, flyers, and organize trainings and lectures,” Petr Rund pointed out.

E This project is coordinated by employees of Terénní program CPPT, o.p.s. (Outreach Program CPPT, o.p.s.) within the project DANCE-8. Costs for club staff training are not included in personal resources of the project. The main aim of the project is to create basis for cooperation, sharing experience, integral development, and trouble-shooting strategy and planning other particular projects. The success of this project depends on activities of all involved members.

encourage – povzbudit.

established – založený

highlight – zvýraznit

respond to – reagovat na

responsibility – odpovědnost

trouble-shooting – hledání chyb

1) Read the article and match each of the headings to a paragraph.

1 Main goals of the Safer club

2 Introduction

3 Reasons for starting the project

4 Project realization

5 Public relations

2) Read the article again and answer the questions.

1 What is the Safer club?

2 What does the Safer club do? How does the Safer club help? Who does it cooperate with?

3 What are typical problems of rock and disco clubs?

4 What is typical negative behaviour of clubbers and disco-goers?

5 How is the work of the club presented to the public?

6 What is the main aim of the project?

3) Explain the following words.

1 club staff

2 clubbers

3 psychoactive substances

4 misuse

5 involved members

What should the education and occupation of the people cooperating with the Safer club be? Is there any similar organisation in Jihlava? What are its activities?

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http://www.bezpecnyklub.cz/en/o_projektu_predstaveni.asp