DRUG
DEPENDENCY INTERVENTION AND MEDIATION PROGRAMME TARGETING THE
ROMA COMMUNITY
“ALVILLELA ACOBÁ PROGRAMME”
Although drugs affect the entire society in general, they have
had a particular effect on the Roma community due to prevailing
conditions of marginalisation and serious poverty to which a proportion
of its members are subject.
Drugs
are slowing down the social advancement and integration process
of the Roma community in so much as they are affecting key aspects
of life and culture.
On
occasion, the reality of the effects of drug abuse on a particularly
young population that oftentimes does not take advantage of public
services or uses them improperly has been ignored.
In
light of this situation, the Avillela Acobá programme started
to take shape in January of 1998. In collaboration with the local
and regional governments and through the Municipal Plan to fight
drugs and the Community of Madrid’s anti-drug agency, the
Fundación Secretariado General Gitano (FSGG) launched a drug
dependency intervention and mediation service targeting the Roma
community.
Roma
and non-Roma mediators work together in this programme and are responsible
for:
- -
Making
contact with drug dependent persons;
- Bringing them to the treatment centres;
- Follow-up and accompaniment in coordination with professionals
working at the centres.
These
are public facilities designed to treat all sorts of drug dependencies
in an integrated fashion. Staff teams are interdisciplinary and
are comprised of: auxiliary personnel, nurses, social educators,
physicians, social workers and psychologists.
-
Basic
idea
- Overall objective
- Specific objectives
- Methodology
- Results achieved
- Key strategies
For
any further information, please do not hesitate to contact Fundación
Secretariado General Gitano either by phone 00 34 91 422
09 60 or by e-mail: sastipen@fsgg.org
or inter.social@fsgg.org.
