This specialty training series aims to reduce the significant health, social, and economic problems associated with the substance use by professionalizing prevention and treatment workforce,and promoting community participation to develop sustainable community-based prevention, outreach and treatment services in rural and isolated areas throughout the world.
This training helps social workers of the community to create the groundwork necessary to facilitate programme acceptance and community participation, and thus to result in a successful programme in prevention and treatment, with a focus on continuing, long-term effects. The training also helps outreach and treatment workers to develop a range of outreach services and treatment camps to reduce the risks of drug use and improve health, and well-being, for substance users in rural and isolated areas.
UTC 51: Substance Use Awareness and Prevention in Rural Settings
This course contains information on how to developing community- based awareness and prevention program through systematic process of community needs assessment and community resource mobilization. The course focuses on considering culture and the use media for effective prevention campaign.
UTC 52: Community Outreach
This course defines trauma and a trauma-responsive environment in substance use disorder treatment. It then addresses how trauma-specific treatment is specifically integrated into women’s substance use disorder treatment, including the importance of teaching staff working with women in a substance use disorder treatment setting about trauma- responsive care. The course concludes with evidence-based approaches to empower women to enhance parenting and how family-centered care can be integrated into women’s treatment for substance use disorders.
UTC 53: Community-based SUD Treatment in Rural Settings
This course provides step-by-step information about establishing and running treatment camps in rural settings that takes place over three stages - preparation, active treatment and continuing care.