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The Trinidad and Tobago National Council On Alcoholism and Other Addictions

16 O'Connor Street | Woodbrook | | Trinidad y Tobago

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Contact Data

Phone

868-627-8213
868-757-8213<br />Fax: 868-627-8213

Email

ttncaa@gmail.com

Web

-

Business hours

8.00 am-4 .00 pm Monday -Friday

Institution

Type of organisation
Organización no gubernamental
Year of foundation
1976
Institutional presentation
Council was established to sensitize on alcoholism expanded to addiction. It was further extended to a wider context of health risk reduction ,youth development (Socio-economic factors)
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 diagnosticadas de patología dual
  • Personas con VIH/SIDA
  • Grupos específicos –mujeres consumidoras de crack, trabajadoras sexuales, personas que inhalan solventes, jóvenes que dejan el sistema educativo…
Target population activities
  • Familia / Padres
Objective of the centre/ services
To aim to have a reduction in the onset of youth drug use and prevalence as well as and other risky behaviour by 1% /2 % per year.
National coverage
National coverage

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Prevención
  • Tratamiento
  • Intervenciones en el Sistema Penal
  • Reducción de Riesgos
  • Reducción de Daños
Intervention framework for Prevención
  • Eventos públicos
  • Familia
  • Otro (Parent meetings)
  • Escuela / Educación primaria
  • Escuela / Educación secundaria
  • Comunidad
Intervention framework for Tratamiento
  • Grupos de autoayuda
Intervention framework for Intervenciones en el Sistema Penal
  • Otro (Propose juvenile court project)
Intervention framework for Reducción de Riesgos
  • Intervenciones de prevención y educación en salud
Intervention framework for Reducción de Daños
  • Programas de base comunitaria (trabajo de redes y territorio, inclusión social)
Activities
  • Acogida
  • Acompañamiento
  • Difusión
  • Educación para la salud
  • Formación
  • Información
  • Intervención socio-educativa familiar
  • Intervención socio-educativa individual
  • Orientación
  • Reparto de material
  • Sensibilización
  • Trabajo de calle
  • Intervención en calle
Description of the main activities
Psycho-social programme (assessment,individual counselling).group counselling,parent life skills

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