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Title: Resiliency Fostering Training
Location:
Global
Categories: Health
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
January 1 07 to January 1 09
Description:
The scourge of addiction to alcohol, marijuana, nicotine and other drugs is one of the most serious and urgent issues facing our youth today, which needs to be tackled desperately.
Thousands of young men, women and children are either directly (through their own addiction), or indirectly (as relatives or children of addicts and as victims of addiction related crime) affected by addiction.
The health, social criminal justice and economic cost of addiction are colossal, running into millions of dollars for affected families. Addiction causes thousands of death nationwide each year. Drug addiction is one of the main driving factors behind the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Youth Empowerment and Development Ministries (YEDEM) is in close partnership with International Substance Abuse and Addiction Coalition of UK, which represent more than 500 service providers, such as rehabilitation centres, prevention programmes, training providers and street agencies in over 55 countries on six continents. They have programmes providing help and support to millions of drug addicts and their families over many decades.
Freedom Centre is a renowned training, awareness and rehabilitation programme based in Egypt, that pioneer outreach to Intravenous Drug User (IDUs) to minimise the risk of HIV/AIDS spread among the population with almost more than 1600 IDUs. Freedom also provides Therapeutic Community Programme applying a 12-Step philosophy, it our aim and vision to tap the expertise of Freedom Centre to run a Rehabilitation Centre in Ghana in the near future, Ghana is privileged to have three Freedom Centre graduates here with us, help implement this project as soon as the facility for drug rehabilitation facility is secured.
Background:
HIV/AIDS – drug awareness and Resiliency Fostering Training, is programme encompassing influential information to adequately equip and train young leaders to reach-out for other young vulnerable groups periodically.
Thus programme seeks to co-organises a national campaign for building-up the resilience of children, young people and families and increase their drug awareness. Starting this year we plan to provide intensive training for leaders from schools, churches and youth centres in partnership with other NGOs and government agencies under theme YOUR ABSTINENCE IS IMPORTANT, BUT YOUR ARE MORE IMPORTANT.
The primary goal of this training is to periodically inform and equip young leaders in the position to influence the larger society about the devastating effect of drugs and substance which is one of the driving forces behind the spread of HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and other negative social vices with our generation.
Drug Awareness programs is formulated to reach tens of thousands of youth each year, through street activities and other public programmes national. It is to open the minds of the participants to a new light and the hearts to an ever-glowing passion.
It expected that 50 leaders per year will receive a week long (70 hours) residential training workshop and then go forward to develop stable HIV/Substance Abuse prevention programmes in their own areas for young people and children, form ISAACS graduates, Freedom Centre Egypt and the ISAAC International training team.
Objectives:
Resiliency Fostering Training is designed to provide education and increased awareness in the areas of alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery.
In this context, our mission is to anticipate and respond to the needs of a diverse and changing student body by providing services and course work that:
• Empower students to make responsible and healthy lifestyle choices.
• Communicate realities, misperceptions and secondary effects of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse.
• Employ evidenced based strategies that positively impact environments and individuals alike.
Long Term Goals:
• Deliver educational services and model programs to schools, communities, and organizations.
• Increase personal and community awareness of high-risk factors associated with chemical use, misuse, and abuse.
• Train, facilitate, and further the professional development of persons engaged in prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery systems and programs.
• Provide resources and empowerment strategies, which foster and support personal growth, interpersonal relationships, and resiliency
The programme seeks to provide a forum to harness the contribution of the participants to discuss the factors that contribute the promotion of drug or substance abuse thus HIV/AIDS
Areas to discuss are the filming of obscene movies to the children and youth by our media houses.
The advertisement and the sales of alcohol to children and youth, also seek to involve and invite the necessary governmental agencies concerning the banning of smoking in public places.
This programme seeks to petition, stakeholders in authority to implement ISAAC’s Red Sea Declaration, October 2006, call to governments, under listed below:
Urgently implement policies aimed at preventing drug misuse, recognising that demand reduction is more effective than supply reduction. Education, life skills development, participatory activities and care and support for young people with aim of encouraging a drug-free life style are crucial. Communities have the right to be protected from drugs, including the right to information concerning drugs. Prevention goes hand-in-hand with rehabilitation and indeed prevention without rehabilitation is ineffective. The criminal justice system can support but will never replace such polices.
Resist all attempts to weaken, or even abolish, the United Nations’ convention on drugs, which aim to control and prevent drug misuse. Addicts have the right to rehabilitation and be treated as patients and not as criminals. However, legalising currently illicit drugs will cause major damage to health, communities and society in general. Legalisation will ultimately increase the burden to public healthy greatly.
Ensure that harm-reduction is never understood as merely reducing the harm to society. These interventions should put the client at the centre of the care and support systems. It should always offer abstinence as an option, and provide all means to achieve this for those who choose this option.
Milestones:
Misuse of alcohol, marijuana, nicotine and other drugs is already out-of-control in many parts of the world. If we fail to fight the scourge of addiction and the drug trade with all available means, drugs misuse will soon be out-of-control world wide, and the fight against drug and HIV/AIDS pandemic lost for generations to come.
Education, life skills development, participatory activities and care and support for young people with aim of encouraging a drug-free life style are crucial for our generation.
Budget:
$5600
Needs:
Training materials such as books and pamphlets Overhead projector, Laptop, computer, photocopier and scanner
Contact Name: Bernard I.K.D. Fiagbe
Contact Email Address: kobbyben@gmail.com
Contact Phone Number: +233242228067
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