Prevention
Prevention comprises targeted measures and activities aimed at avoiding illness or damage to health, reducing the risk of illness or delaying its occurrence.
Preventive measures are categorised into universal, selective and indicated prevention.
Preventive measures can focus on individual behaviour (behavioural prevention) or living conditions (situational prevention).
The Office for Health and Prevention supports the citizens of Chemnitz with various preventive programmes.
Maintaining health and avoiding illness is a central goal of prevention and health promotion. We are committed to promoting the health and well-being of people in Chemnitz by
- Networking regional experts and decision-makers to initiate necessary changes
- Organising needs-oriented and cross-agency health promotion services
- Imparting knowledge and contacts
- Picking up and implementing good ideas for health promotion in Chemnitz
Further prevention programmes
You can find further prevention programmes on various topics in the prevention database of the Netzwerk für Kultur- und Jugendarbeit e. V. (Network for Cultural and Youth Work):
Family App Chemnitz
The FamilyApp Chemnitz now provides important information on advice and support services as well as educational and leisure activities for families, teenagers and young adults conveniently on your mobile phone.
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Prevention takes place in all areas of life of the citizens of Chemnitz and is orientated towards the health goals of the Saxon State Framework Agreement:
The foundations for dealing with, developing and promoting one's own health are laid in the early stages of a child's development and pave the way for lifelong behaviour and lifestyles. In addition to the parental home, daycare centres, and later also schools and after-school care centres, play a central role in the development of health-promoting skills.
Creation of sustainable, needs-based and quality-assured structures, processes and programmes in the living environments for:
- Expectant and young families
- Children and their parents in the daycare phase
- Children and young people of school age and their parents, young adults in training/studying
- Educational professionals
- local authorities
Creation of sustainable, needs-based and quality-assured structures, processes and services in the living environments for:
- Employers, employees
- Employers' and trade associations, chambers of industry and commerce, network partners
- People in social areas with special needs while maintaining equal opportunities, unemployed people
- Volunteers
Creation of sustainable, needs-based and quality-assured structures, processes and services in the living environments for:
- People in need of care, family carers
- carers
- People outside of working life (senior citizens)
- local authorities
Prevention programmes at a glance
Life skills daycare centre
The "FREUNDE" project is a training programme for educational staff in day-care centres with the aim of comprehensively strengthening children's life skills from an early age.
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Life skills primary school
"Klasse 2000" is a teaching programme for health promotion, addiction and violence prevention. Specially trained health promoters bring current topics directly into primary schools.
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Secondary schools
IPSY is an advanced training course for addiction prevention specialists in secondary schools in grades 5-7. Teachers and school social workers carry out the programme over 3 years.
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Mental health
The Office for Health and Prevention offers prevention programmes for parents, teachers and local schools on the topic of "Mental Health" and supports them.
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