Transcript Case Study No. 3 – Indicated Prevention

DRUG USE AND ABUSE
PREVENTION:
“Street Kids Network”
BACKGROUND
1996 - 1998 Investigations carried out by the NGO
“ALTERNATIVE PREVENTION” and CICAD:
Increase on drug use and abuse, more than the 75% of
the street kids are consumers.
90% of the organizations do not attend the problem.
Reasons: lack of human resource training, fear,
ignorance, inexperience, they think through other
educational alternatives.
NET’S MISSION
“Coordinate,
link
and fortify, inter institutional links, that
promote actions for prevention of drug use
among kids and teenagers in street
situation
through the strengthening of protective
factors and the decrease of risk factors
within the family, school, community and
peer group”
WHO’S PART OF THE NET?
NGO
Rights
and Protection
Council
Refugee centers
and community
homes
Neighborhood
associations
GO
Church
Centers of
Toxicological
attention
Security bodies
Centers of primary
attention in health
and nutrition
Community, sports
and cultural
organizations,
Treatment
centers
Educational
Units
Community
families
Merchants
GENERAL
OBJECTIVES
1. Favor the attention of children
and teenagers population in
street situation, in drug use and
abuse matters.
Kid’s attention
Kid’s Attention
2. Fortify training and knowledge of
members in the organizations working with
street kids and teenagers, on drug use and
abuse prevention and attention.
3. Generate and fortify a Networking culture
Network, that allows to optimization of
resources to attend the drug use and abuse
problem in street kids and teenagers.
Consolidating and Expanding
the Street Kids Network
Institution and organization
training in drug use and
abuse prevention
Networking CULTURE
OPERATING components of
the Network: management,
training, communication,
investigation, evaluation and
monitoring
Healthy Behavior
Promotion for Kids
Drug use and Abuse
Prevention and Treatment
Days playing
Health attention
School reintegration
Orientation and support
to the family
Protection council
Street Education
Community Participation
Prevention: family, school,
community, media
DECREASE STREET TIME
THE STREET SITUATION
LINK WITH THE STREET
Street trainers
Case detection
Community
awareness
Training, motivation
and treatment
Community
links
Psychosocial studies
Network Support
Contacts
Family contacts
Location in U.E
Case follow up and monitoring
Implementation Results
2000 - 2004
Four (4) teams of educators created for the
area of Greater Caracas: mission - offer
support within the main habitat of children,
“the street”, to initiate the prevention work
and detect drug use and abuse.
Fifteen (15) drug use and abuse prevention
on
street
kids
workshops
coupling
techniques, preventive recreation, multipliers
training, life skills, result evaluation to form
340 new counselors.
Implementation Results
2000 - 2004
 20,575 beneficiaries, product of actions
by the Network members from the
activities generated by the different
components
 Interstate Network creation (mission,
vision, signing of commitment) that
included 53 organizations of the following
states: Aragua, Carabobo, Lara, Miranda
and the Metropolitan District.
Implementation Results
2000 - 2004
 Prevention plans prepared for 2001 -- 2004 in five components:
Management, communication, training, investigation, evaluation
and monitoring.
 Achievements
Design of four (4) leaflets,
preventive handbook.
Training in 60% of the member
organizations.
Network Promotion in the
participating states’ major
media.
Registration and institutional
board of directors of the 53
participating organizations.
Prevention calendar design.
Four (4) neighborhood
sensitization campaigns
Three diagnoses of the
institution's attention on use and
abuse in risk situations.
More than 40,000 people reached
through the promotion actions of
the Network (leaflets, radio
programs, newspapers and TV)
On the kids
 For the consolidation of the
component of street approach, a
labor market and training program
was designed, to be executed during
the last quarter of the 2005.
 Street approach results
3,500 street kids reached for drug use
and abuse prevention.
440 street kids with drug use and abuse
problems
On the Kids
Eight (8) working days “Playing and Learning”
to treat the drug use and abuse problem in 840
kids in the care units of Aragua, Caracas,
Miranda, Carabobo y Lara.
40% decrease in street time
37% of families reached and reestablishing ties
with their own kids.
8% reintegrated to the Network schools.
Decrease of 40% in drug use and abuse
among the teenagers reached.
Evaluation Mechanisms
Preparation of yearly plans for each Network
member
Achievement indicators established
Daily registry of Street activities
Yearly evaluation meetings with the Networks
members.
THANK YOU …