Pilot Program on Smoking, Healthy Nutrition, and Exercise at the Volos Special Detention Center for Young Offenders

The pilot program “Prevention of Smoking and Promotion of Healthy Nutrition and Regular Physical Activity” at the Volos Special Detention Center for Young Offenders aims to improve the health and quality of life of young adult inmates. Through education and the enhancement of health literacy, the program aspires to foster healthy habits and contribute to the successful social reintegration of participants.

Through a holistic range of actions, the program includes education and awareness for both inmates and the staff of the facility, as well as the organization of workshops aimed at empowerment, promoting prevention, and shifting the culture towards a healthier lifestyle.

In parallel with education and awareness efforts, an initiative will begin to identify necessary structural interventions within the prison system, with the aim of promoting new anti-smoking policies, improving nutrition, and encouraging physical activity with specific proposals, guided by the protection of Public Health.

The implementation of the program strengthens the concept of primary prevention and equal access to health for one of the most vulnerable populations in our society.

The program is supported by the Bodossaki Foundation within the framework of the Thematic Grants Program.

A partner in this initiative is the Hellenic Pneumonological Society.