Contact Data
Phone
501-227-1143
501-227-1121<br />Fax: 501-227-0520
Web
-
Business hours
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Friday
Institution
- Type of organisation
- Gubernamental/Pública - Nacional
- Year of foundation
- 1988
- Institutional presentation
- The National Drug Abuse control Council mission is to create a society free from the abuse of drugs while advancing the good health and moral well-being of the nation.
- Direct beneficiaries
- No consumen drogas
- Usuarios experimentales de drogas
- Usuarios de drogas en general
- Consumidores problemáticos de drogas
- Ex consumidores de drogas
- Grupos motivacionales (donde hay consumidores y no consumidores)
- Mujeres con uso problemático de sustancias
- Mujeres con hijos a cargo
- Personas sin hogar
- Personas diagnosticadas de patología dual
- Personas con VIH/SIDA
- Minorías étnicas
- Grupos específicos –mujeres consumidoras de crack, trabajadoras sexuales, personas que inhalan solventes, jóvenes que dejan el sistema educativo…
- Target population activities
- La población en general
- Objective of the centre/ services
- The National Drug Abuse Control Council's main objectives are to reduce the demand and supply of drugs and to alleviate the consequences associated with the misuse of licit and illicit drugs. These objectives are executed through the following six components: 1. Public Education 2. School Drug Prevention 3. Community Empowerment 4. Research and Information 5. Treatment and Rehabilitation 6. Legal Reform
- National coverage
- The National Drug Abuse Control Council provides a national coverage with offices located in every district making it more accessible for the Belizean public.
Intervention framework
- Intervention types
- Prevención
- Tratamiento
- Intervention framework for Prevención
- Escuela / Educación primaria
- Escuela / Educación secundaria
- Universidad / Estudios terciarios
- Comunidad
- Eventos públicos
- Familia
- Lugar de trabajo
- Intervention framework for Tratamiento
- Otro (Assessment of case and outreach services)
- Activities
- Difusión
- Educación para la salud
- Formación
- Información
- Sensibilización
- Otros (Outreach Services)
- Description of the main activities
- The National Drug Abuse Control Council has three main Unit: The Drug Education Unit that provided Drug Education to schools, work place and community on the effects of drugs. This is provided through various school base approach, presentation and community empowerment. Next is the Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit that offers Outreach service, individual accessing this are assess and the proper referral for treatment services is made. Lastly the Research and Information Unit with is main activity is to gather data from both units on coverage of services offer and the council and data on the drug situation of the country.
The European Commission (EC), the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Public Administration and Policy (FIIAPP), and specifically, the COPOLAD Coordination and Execution Body (ECB-COPOLAD) are not responsible in any way for the content or data collected in the Directory of Centers and Services of COPOLAD. In all cases, the information provided has been screened by the Agency responsible for drugs policies in each country. The referenced data of the Centers and Services are the sole responsibility of the institutions that provide them and, therefore, their insertion in such Directory does not reflect in any case the supporting of their positions or processes developed by each Center or Service. Likewise, these Centers or Services are not financed in any case by the COPOLAD Programme or the European Commission.