Guideline 4. Defining a prevention strategy

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The board defines a prevention strategy to provide both internal and external guidance.

Guideline code

PREV_00700

Mechanism

The management should develop the prevention strategy, which provides fundamental guidance on prevention for the institution, and submit it to the board for approval.
The management should ensure the prevention strategy outlines the institution’s priorities in terms of the services it provides, e.g. “prevention is better than rehabilitation” and “rehabilitation is better than compensation”.
The management should ensure that, based on the prevention strategy, targets and priorities are defined and implemented through annual work plans.
The management should understand that financial expenditure on prevention is not just a cost but an investment which will help guarantee the future financial sustainability of the institution.
The management should consider using the prevention strategy, and a motto that emanates from it, for communication purposes in order to reinforce good public relations and public perception of the institution and to position the institution as a national or international prevention player.

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Structure

The board should ask the management to develop a prevention strategy that defines the institution’s prevention principles and its understanding of its role in prevention.