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Piparo Empowerment Centre

Dindial Trace | Piparo | | Trinidad and Tobago

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Contact Data

Phone

868-623-2608 EXT. 3000<br />Fax: 868-656-0764

Web

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Business hours

8.00 am-4.00 pm/ Residential Care 24 hours

Institution

Type of organisation
Governamental/Public-national
Institutional presentation
The PEC is an internationally acclaimed therapeutic community fr the treatment and rehabilitation of male substance abusers over 18 years.The programme is for a minimum of 9 months and includes individuals and group therapy ,re;apse prevention,social reintegration and after care.
Direct beneficiaries
  • Drug users
Target population activities
  • Others (Significant others) ()
Objective of the centre/ services
The main objective is to treat and rehabilitate with the aim of having persons reintegrate as productive members of society,contributing to the socio-economic development of that nation.
National coverage
Our coverage is national targeting all persons affected by substance abuser,especially those who cannot afford to pay for treatment

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Social integration
  • Penal system interventions
  • Risk reduction
Intervention framework for Prevention
  • Community
  • Public events
Intervention framework for Treatment
  • Support groups
  • Dual diagnosis treatment
  • Internment/in-patient
  • Treatment groups (relapse prevention)
  • Other (Substance use disorders)
Intervention framework for Social integration
  • Housing support
  • Employment support (writing applications/ opening bank accounts/providing references)
  • Education support
  • Other (Retraining /Skills Training)
Intervention framework for Penal system interventions
  • Family
  • Work place
  • Other (Homeless/Street dwellers)
  • Prison
  • Community
Intervention framework for Risk reduction
  • Substance testing
  • Community based programs (network, social inclusion…)
  • Other (distribution of litersture)
Activities
  • Support
  • Information
  • Guidance
  • Distribution of material
  • Others (Therapeutic intervention)
  • Abstinent based residential treatment
  • After-care, social reintegration, halfway houses
Description of the main activities
Our programme is total abstinence

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