Two pillars
FINDER operates a portfolio of proprietary evidence-based prevention programmes across two pillars. Professional training qualifies individual practitioners through short formats (days to weeks). Organisational development accompanies institutions – schools, municipalities, residential youth welfare – across one to several years.
Most programmes are delivered primarily in German. This page is an orientation in English; programme-specific websites are listed where available.
Professional training
EUPC – European Prevention Curriculum
A five-day blended training adapted from the UNODC International Standards on Drug Use Prevention by an EU consortium of nine member states. Qualifies prevention professionals to apply the European prevention quality standards. Since July 2024, the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA, Lisbon) is legally mandated to promote EUPC across the EU. Over 3,300 professionals have been EUPC-certified to date.
FINDER is the authorised EUPC implementing partner for Germany. Delivered in German.
PROXI – Developmental Radicalisation Prevention
A blended or compact training on radicalisation prevention understood as a developmental phenomenon, grounded in the four-proximal-factor model of Prof. Andreas Beelmann (University of Jena). Fully funded by the Lower Saxony State Prevention Council; participation is free of charge for practitioners from any German state. Delivered in German.
REBOUND – Life Skills and Risk Competence
One of Germany’s most widely used scientifically evaluated life-skills and risk-competence programmes for young people aged 14 and above. Comprises a three-day teacher training and a 12-lesson classroom curriculum.
Under the REBOUND 2.0 project (Federal Ministry of Health via BIÖG, 2024–2026, evaluated by the University of Greifswald), the programme is being extended to young adults up to 25 and updated with new digital materials.
Programme website: rebound.school (English) · rebound.schule (German teacher platform).
Unplugged – RCT-validated Substance Prevention
Originally developed by the EU-DAP consortium (European Drug Abuse Prevention), Unplugged is one of the few European school-based substance-prevention curricula validated in a randomised controlled trial. Target group: students in grades 7–8 (ages 12–14). Listed on the German Green List of Prevention.
Programme website: unplugged.schule (German only).
Einfach Wirksam – Practice Handbook for Secondary Teachers
A published practice handbook adapting the Social Development Strategy (University of Washington, Prof. David Hawkins and Prof. Richard Catalano) into 16 concrete classroom methods that strengthen motivation, social competence, and learning. Available in print and e-book (German).
Organisational development
Communities That Care (CTC)
A planning and governance system for municipal prevention, originally developed by the Social Development Research Group (SDRG, University of Washington) around Prof. David Hawkins and Prof. Richard Catalano. Adapted for Germany in 2009 by the Landespräventionsrat Niedersachsen (LPR, Lower Saxony State Prevention Council) within an EU-funded trial coordinated by the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN). Implemented in 55 German municipalities. Benefit-cost ratio: 1:12.88. Five-phase cycle: readiness → survey → prioritisation → evidence-based programme selection → implementation and evaluation.
Programme website: communities-that-care.de (German only).
Two completed FINDER projects carried the German scale-up: the bundesweite CTC-Implementierung (2023–2024, Federal Ministry of Justice) and CTC-3V – Vernetzen, Verbreiten, Verstärken (2025, Federal Ministry of Justice). See projects. Further scaling now runs on § 20a SGB V (statutory health-insurance setting-based prevention) as its financing base.
Schools That Care
The school-adapted version of the CTC logic: an anonymous student survey, data-based needs analysis, evidence-based selection of programmes from the Green List, implementation, and evaluation. Eligible for funding under § 20a SGB V (statutory health-insurance setting-based prevention).
Weitblick – Healthy School has Method
Weitblick is the external-evaluation arm and the systematic completion of the Schools That Care approach. Where CTC in its classical shape concentrates on substance use, delinquency, violence and school dropout, Weitblick extends the model with dimensions that are missing in CTC: nutrition, physical activity, sleep, sensory health, and whole-school well-being. The biennial student survey covers lower and upper secondary grades as well as primary school cohorts (year 4 onwards), which CTC historically did not reach.
Over two years, schools follow a blended process: baseline survey, data-based needs analysis, evidence-based programme selection from the Green List of Prevention, implementation with FINDER accompaniment, and a follow-up survey that generates the external evaluation of outcomes. External evaluation by Hannover Medical School gives the findings independent weight.
Fully funded by the Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV-Verband, the statutory umbrella of German private health insurers). Currently delivered free of charge to 72 schools across Germany. Current funding period: until 31 October 2026.
Programme website: weitblick.schule (German only).
PULSAR
The only structured prevention-oriented organisational development programme specifically for residential youth welfare institutions in Germany. Four-day base workshop plus two-year process accompaniment. Over 20 institutions currently in the programme. Cooperation partner: mudra e.V. (Nuremberg).
Programme website: pulsar.training (German only).
International adaptation
Several of FINDER’s programmes are themselves adaptations of international curricula – EUPC from the UNODC International Standards (developed by an EU consortium of nine member states), Unplugged from the EU-DAP consortium, and RBYC-Adapt from the Moore Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
We also accompany adaptations of our own programmes outside Germany. Current and recent work includes REBOUND Mauritius (in cooperation with the Mauritian Ministry of Education; teacher trainings delivered 2023–2024, curriculum work continued through 2026) and REBOUND Romania in Bistrița-Năsăud County (Memorandum of Understanding signed January 2025; first teacher training delivered in Bistrița in May 2025).
If you represent an international organisation, a ministry, or a university interested in adapting one of our programmes, or in a consortium role on an EU-funded proposal, please get in touch. We have experience with both inbound and outbound adaptations.