Drug Education & Counselling Services (DECS)
Plaza Centrale, Roebuck Street | St Michael | | Barbados
ReturnContact 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
- Escuela / Educación primaria
- Escuela / Educación secundaria
- Universidad / Estudios terciarios
- Comunidad
- Eventos públicos
- Familia
- Lugar de trabajo
- 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 inhalado (pitillos, rulos, etc.)
- Servicios de asistencia básica (duchas, alimentación, lavandería, etc)
- Distribución de parafernalia para consumo fumado (pipas, papel aluminio)
- 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.