Description
The project’s aim is to implement an integrated approach for social inclusion of persons with addiction problems by developing preventative measures to combat violence in families, ensuring innovative rehabilitation services to addicted persons, support measures to co-addicted persons, as well as to form a pre-course to social entrepreneurship. Family members of addicted persons will receive consultations and co-addicted person self-help groups and an educational co-operation camp will be organized. Rehabilitation and adaptation programme to promote recovery of addicted persons and their integration into society will be elaborated and adapted. Volunteers of the foundation will be trained for work with addicted persons. A methodological material about the project measures will be elaborated and the society will be informed and educated about the results of the project. The target group of the project: persons who have suffered from violence, addicted and homeless persons.
Summary of project results
The project has been carried out in Riga, in the premises of socially caritative center Bethlehem Charity House. Target group of the project were addicted persons from social risk groups, including poor and homeless persons and persons released from prison, as well as family members of these people (co-addicts). During the projects, preventive activities for the reduction of violence in families and support to co-addicted persons were carried out. Therapy group "Duja" met once a week, two camps were organized for addicted persons and their family members to renew family ties. An program for rehabilitation of addicted persons was developed, realized and made accessible for more than 100 persons. Guidelines for social businesses were drafted, in order to help to return addicted people to the labour market. Possibilities of social business were tried during the realization of the programme in the newly established carpentry workshop of Bethlehem Charity House as well as a candle shop.
Summary of bilateral results