YAD is a Finnish non-profit organisation that started out in 1988 as a small civil movement of young people aiming to influence and prevent the drug abuse. From the very beginning young volunteers has been the base of the organisation. YAD practises peer group work by the means of education, showing examples of drug free lifestyle, providing reliable information and simply being around and interacting with young people in different places. YAD is also about helping out those wanting to quit taking drugs and nowadays more and more involved with projects of developing relevant and up-to-date means to do the drug prevention work with different target groups and environments. YAD has some 575 members and a staff of 15 workers.