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City of Oslo
Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services/Competence Centre
Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services,
Competence Centre
The Competence Centre:
•Ms.Ragnhild Audestad,
director
•Ms.Runa Frydenlund,
senior executive officer
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City of Oslo
Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services/Competence Centre
Organizational Chart of AADAS
Director
Organisation
Department
Competence Centre
Department for
services run by the
Municipality
(City of Oslo)
Section for Outreach
And Substitution
Programmes
Section for
Rehabilitation
Section for
Harm reduction
Department for
services run by NGOs
or profit organisations
Section for Care and
Services
For Women
Dep. of
Detached and
Outreach Youth
Services
National
Drug Help line
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Private
organisations
City of Oslo
Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services/Competence Centre
The Competence Centre - Oslo
• Is 1 of 7 regional competence centres
in Norway
• responsible for the implementation of
national drug policies at the local level
on behalf of the Directorate for Health
• our main aims are to improve drug
services and prevention work in the City
of Oslo
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Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services/Competence Centre
Main Priority Areas of the Competence Centre
1) Drug and alcohol prevention in local
environments
2)Increase competence on alcohol and drug
related issues in the health and social services
3)Development of special competence at national
level related to:
a) Outreach work among youth
b) Substance abuse among ethnic minorities
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Strategies
• To prioritise training and education in the field of
alcohol and drugs linked to the formal education
systems (University Colleges) and institutions
• To provide financial support for special projects
potential for producing new experience based on
knowledge in the field
• To offer supervision, project monitoring and
networking in the field of rehabilitation and social
services at local levels.
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Networking
”Open Space”
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Area of Special Competence at National Level
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Outreach work:
– Post-degree education in
outreach/detached youth social work
– Ongoing evaluation studies
– Textbook on outreach methodology
– Supervising projects and local government
– Improving tools for mapping and reporting
Approach in street based outreach work:
– Universal prevention; focus on the whole
population
– Selective prevention: focus on groups and
individuals at risk
– Indicative prevention: focus on individuals who
already has started a drug addiction problem
or where factors of risk already is observed
– Empowerment
– Focus on early intervention
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Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services/Competence Centre
Dep. of Detached and Outreach Youth services
(Uteseksjonen)
• Established 1969
• Staff:
28, of whom 24 are
outreach social workers
• Target group:
youth and young adults up
to the age of 25 at risk of
problems with substance
abuse and crime
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Agency for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services/Competence Centre
National Drug Help Line
(RUStelefonen)
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Established Dec. 2002, permanent service from 2007
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Staff:
5 counsellors; 4 full time and 1 part time positions
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Main Priority Areas:
- Provide the public with information about alcohol and drugs
- Provide the public with an overview of the different services
dealing with treatment of substance abuse
- Provide the public with counselling regarding substance abuse
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Target group:
- Youth experimenting with drugs and their parents
- Everyone with a concern about alcohol, drugs and substance abuse,
including professionals
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Drug Help Line; services
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Sms; facts and dialog
Youth magazines
A&Q’s in various web sites
Lecturing
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Thank you for listening
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