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THE READI Centre

9 1/2 mm, Toco Main Road | Matura | | Trinidad and Tobago

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Contact Data

Phone

868-355-2951
868-481-8513

Web

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Business hours

8.00 am-4.00 pm,Mon-Friday Centre -24 hours

Institution

Type of organisation
Non-governamental organization
Year of foundation
1990
Institutional presentation
This is an arm of the Friends Forever NGO, It is run by the Seventh Day Adventist church. The serve males only
Direct beneficiaries
  • Not drug users
  • Drug users
  • Problematic drug users
  • Fromer drug users
  • Motivational groups (drug users and not drug users)
  • Women presenting problematic drug use
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Specific drug users – Sex workers, Pregnant teens, Institutionalized persons (prisoners), School-age at risk youth, Out of school youths...
Target population activities
  • Adults
Objective of the centre/ services
National coverage
National Coverage

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Social integration
  • Risk reduction
Intervention framework for Prevention
  • School/primary education
  • School/secondary education
  • Community
  • Public events
Intervention framework for Treatment
  • Internment/in-patient
  • Outpatient/diurnal/outpatients clinic
  • Treatment groups (relapse prevention)
  • Support groups
Intervention framework for Social integration
  • Employment support (writing applications/ opening bank accounts/providing references)
  • Education support
Intervention framework for Risk reduction
  • Interventions on prevention and health education
  • Interventions on massive public events
  • Substance testing
Activities
  • Support
  • Coodination
  • Health education
  • Information
  • Guidance
  • Distribution of material
  • Awareness
  • Early Intervention/detoxification
  • Street based intervention
  • Abstinent based residential treatment
  • After-care, social reintegration, halfway houses
Description of the main activities

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