Capacity-building training for Outreach workers and social workers from 24 districts in HCMC

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VHATTC-UMP has coordinated with the Department of Social Evils Prevention and Control of Ho Chi Minh City to organize a series of training courses to improve the capacity of outreach workers and volunteer social workers from 24 districts in the city. The training aims to support the participants on approaching and treating drug addicts in Ho Chi Minh City.

The training will be conducted in different districts during September 2017, as follows:

Agenda (expected):

Time Content
8h00 – 8h10 Course Introduction
8h10 – 9h00 Addiction as a brain disease
9h00 – 9h45 Drug classification
9h45 – 10h00 Tea break
10h00 – 10h30 Methamphetamine Addiction – Harms
10h30 – 11h00 Talk with real patient about addiction, esp. with methamphetamine
11h00 – 11h45 New Drug introduction: Shisa, Marijuana, Synthetic Marijuana, ecstasy, Ketamine, LSD
11h45 – 13h30 Lunch break
13h30 – 15h00 How to approach substance abusers out in the community
15h00 – 15h15 break
15h15 – 16h00 Building a treatment plan
16h00 – 16h45 Treatment Plan - Role play
16h45 – 17h00 End-of-the-day Evaluation

We will update this training in the next posts.