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Drug Education & Counselling Services (DECS)

Plaza Centrale, Roebuck Street | St Michael | | Barbados

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Contact Data

Phone

(246) 435-8148
(246) 233-8148

Web

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Business hours

Monday to Friday 10:00 - 18:00 Saturday 09:00 - 18:00

Institution

Type of organisation
Organización no gubernamental
Year of foundation
2005
Institutional presentation
DECS is the faith-based non-governmental organization working with young boys and girls with substance abuse and behavioral issues. Our vision is to see young people moves from mere existence to purpose.
Direct beneficiaries
  • No consumen drogas
  • Usuarios experimentales de drogas
  • Usuarios de drogas en general
  • Ex consumidores de drogas
  • Grupos motivacionales (donde hay consumidores y no consumidores)
  • Mujeres con uso problemático de sustancias
  • Mujeres con hijos a cargo
  • 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
1) To exemplify the highest level of integrity for every young boy and girl who enters one of DECS' programs. 2) To collaborate with parents, schools, cooperate businesses, communities, government and the clergy to assist with the development of each child, with the primary objective to rekindle the value system within the members life before they complete the program within two years. 3) Members remaining drug free and modifying their behaviors within a year of entering our programe, graduating to our aftercare club "Youth Empowered & Alive" to be further stabilized for approximately one (1) additional year.
National coverage
Young people under the age of 25 years old

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Prevención
  • Tratamiento
  • Intervenciones en el Sistema Penal
  • Reducción de Riesgos
  • Reducción de Daños
Intervention framework for Prevención
  • Comunidad
  • Eventos públicos
  • Familia
  • Lugar de trabajo
  • Escuela / Educación primaria
  • Escuela / Educación secundaria
  • Universidad / Estudios terciarios
Intervention framework for Tratamiento
  • Paciente externo / diurno / ambulatorio
  • Grupos de tratamiento (prevención de recaídas)
  • Grupos de autoayuda
Intervention framework for Intervenciones en el Sistema Penal
  • Prisión
Intervention framework for Reducción de Riesgos
  • Intervenciones de prevención y educación en salud
Intervention framework for Reducción de Daños
  • Distribución de parafernalia para consumo fumado (pipas, papel aluminio)
  • Distribución de parafernalia para consumo inhalado (pitillos, rulos, etc.)
  • Servicios de asistencia básica (duchas, alimentación, lavandería, etc)
Activities
  • 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 temprana
  • Intervención en calle
  • Atención telefónica
  • Centro de baja exigencia
  • Reinserción-reintegración social, alojamiento temporal
Description of the main activities

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.