Family Training Program For Fighting Addiction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Family Training Program For Fighting Addiction

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

According to TUIK (abbreviation of Turkey Statistical Foundation) we have 19 million people aged between 14 and 29. These values show us that %26 of our population is young. Number of the young people is very important for our country for developing fast and being in the level of developed countries. This information and some researches show us that our country faces some dangers. According to researches of Drug Addiction and Pharmacolocigal Sciences Institue of EgeUniversity , %33,9 of young people uses alcohol, %29,7 uses cigarette and %1,7 uses drugs. But these rates are terribly increasing. EU countries are aware of this danger. In the 2009 Progress Report of EU says “You need more drug usage preventing, treatment and rehabilitation facilities.” But this situation is not different with EU countries, so in about all EU countries take some preventive precautions and actions about this problem. In a study which has been done by the Management of Struggle and Control of the Non-alcoholic Addictions of the Ministry of Health, observation and intervention actions were detailed shown. EU countries, especially Germany, Italy, Netherland and France began to study observation and intervention programs about drug addiction in 1980’s. IIn early 1980s, our country as well as EU countries have recognized this problem and have developed some measures to target addiction issue. As a measure, some public organisations and NGOs have been implementing SAMBA Intervention Programmes (Cigarette, Alcohol and Substance Abuse) within the scope of awareness raising and healing programmes. However, this intervetion programme was limited with the addicts and therefore, the addict individual lacked a family and friend circle who understood addiction issues. However, the behaviour and attitude of family and close circle of addict is very important in the fight against addiction. Both in our country and EU countries, it is challenging to reach data on the effects of substance use on family members and family functions. It is noteworthy that the number of research on this issue is very few. Our project includes trainings targetting the family members of the addicts. The possibility to drop the treatment or restart using addictivge substance is much higher with the individuals who are not supported by their families. Besides, when the family members are not informed, they tend to misbehave to addict family member. Such kind of wrong behaviours could reinforce the addictive behaviours rather correcting it. Against this background, it is planned to develop an awareness raising training programmetargetting families in order to fight against addiction, which completed a missing point in various intervention programmes. Within this scope, the following acitivities were planned: 1- To develop “Fight against Addiction and Family Training Programme” targetting the families of addicts. 2- To develop materials which allowedparents to notice addictive behavior among family (brochure, web page, etc.)3- To train the trainers who delivered “Fight Against Addiction and Family Training Programme”Each project partner ensured that a competent and expert personnel attend ed to the proejct meetings. The allocation of personnel to project meetings were as follows:1- KPD: 1 Teacher, 2 Psychologist, 1 Social Worker and 1 Sociologist. 2- APHD: 1 Psychiatrist, 2 Psychologist, 1 Social Worker, 1 Family Counsellor and 1 Master Trainer.3- HEGMED: 1 Teacher, 2 Psychologist, 1. 1 Social Worker and1 Master Trainer.4- DNHospital: : 1 Psychiatrist, 2 Psychologist, 1 Social Worker and 1 Family Counsellor5- VDV: 1 Teacher, 1 Psychologist, 1 Sociologist, 1 Social Worker and1 Master Trainer.6- SVF: 1 Teacher, 1 Psychologist, 1 Sociologist, 1 Social Worker and1 Master Trainer.7- GDOf P D: 1 Teacher, 1 Psychologist, 1 Social Worker and1 Observer Intellectual outputs 1) 8 session“Fight against Addiction and Family Training Programme” The training programme included topics on behaviours and attitudes towards addict indiviuduals2) Family Training Programme implementation guide bookA guide book for trainers who delivered 8 session “Fight against Addiction and Family Training Programme” was developed. The guide book included the materials, methods and techniques which should be used by the trainers. Moreover, this guide book was sent to relevant public organisations and NGOs.he results of the project was available and was used by others as following:1-bamap.net websites includes each step and content of the project which allows the project results to be available to public even after the completi3) Online Training Web Sites.Via the www.bamap.net the proejct reached out to family who cannot attend to the group trainings. The online training system reached to more families in a shorter period of time.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191880 Eur

Project Coordinator

KIRKKKALE DENETIMLI SERBESTLIK MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Ceza ve Tevkifevleri Genel Mudurlugu
• SZUBJEKTIV ERTEKEKEK ALAPITVANY
• Helix-Helezon
• ANKARA IL SAGLIK MUDURLUGU
• Daugavpils Psycho-Neurological Hospital
• HAYAT BOYU EGITIMI GELISTIRME VE MESLEK EDINDIRME DERNEGI