Contact Data
Phone
592-226-1235
Web
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Business hours
Monday to Friday 08:00 a.m. to 04:00 p.m.
Institution
- Type of organisation
- Non-governamental organization
- Year of foundation
- 1996
- Institutional presentation
- The Salvation Army Men's Social Centre opened its door to drug rehab on 24th August, 1996, catering for people with addictive personality i.e. alcoholic, drug addicts, cross addiction, persons suffering from over the counter drugs and also provide help to persons suffering from psychiatric medication due to intolerance of drug addiction. This includes the men's hostel where working men would seek accommodation.
- Direct beneficiaries
- Drug users
- Fromer drug users
- Homeless
- Dually diagnosed (comorbid)
- Target population activities
- Family/parents
- Objective of the centre/ services
- Helping people that are suffering from addiction conditions to understand (the Disease concept) Reshaping people's minds who are suffering from the disease of addiction
- National coverage
- Television programs are being conducted, outreach to community is being done annually. Country wide education on addiction condition
Intervention framework
- Intervention types
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Social integration
- Penal system interventions
- Others
- Risk reduction
- Harm reduction
- Intervention framework for Prevention
- School/primary education
- School/secondary education
- University/Tertiary education
- Community
- Public events
- Work place
- Intervention framework for Treatment
- Support groups
- Dual diagnosis treatment
- Treatment groups (relapse prevention)
- Intervention framework for Social integration
- Other (Half way house is being provided for those who are less fortunate, teaching persons to be productive)
- Employment support (writing applications/ opening bank accounts/providing references)
- Intervention framework for Penal system interventions
- Family
- Work place
- Intervention framework for Others
- Specify (We would conduct training to any institution that needs the information on the above, but for us we are an abstinence programme)
- Intervention framework for Risk reduction
- Interventions on prevention and health education
- Substance testing
- Street approach programs
- Other (we allow hospital staff to conduct blood testing during the duration of our programme and make provision for medical needs to be addressed )
- Intervention framework for Harm reduction
- Other (we would conduct training to any institution that needs the information on the above but for us we are an abstinence programme)
- Activities
- Coodination
- Promotion
- Health education
- Training
- Information
- Family & socio-educational intervention
- Guidance
- Distribution of material
- Awareness
- Street based intervention
- Telephone hotline
- Abstinent based residential treatment
- After-care, social reintegration, halfway houses
- Description of the main activities
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