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Drugs Awareness Programme (DAP)

Mission Statement

DAP aims to provide quality drug education, training and support services which develop knowledge and skills in order to enhance competencies and capacities in a variety of settings and sectors

We offer a wide range of services: Drug Education, Training, information, support, counselling and consultancy. These include:

Training & Education:

  • Addiction Studies Course (1 year duration) accredited by National University of Ireland (N.U.I.)
  • Policy development (for schools, work-place, youth services, etc.)
  • Drug education programme design and delivery
  • Relapse prevention for service users
  • Prevention and education strategies
  • Managing drug related issues
  • Parent training on preventing drug and alcohol problems.

Information, Support & Counselling:

  • Award winning website www.dap.ie
  • Live helper- interactive services on the website
  • Telephone help-line service
  • Counselling/ referral service
  • Information & project request provision
  • Advocacy

Consultancy:

We recognise the real value of collaboration with other individuals, groups and agencies; therefore we share resources and actively engage with initiatives with include, The Drug Education Workers Forum, Health Boards, PREVnet, ENCARE, Local Drug Task Forces, Regional Drug Task Force, National Advisory Committee on Drugs and The Telephone Helpline Association.

Our Aspirations are:

To work for equity, equality and social change
To ensure that our work is at all times professional, adhering to good practice and predicated on evidence- based approaches
To engage in genuine collaborative partnership with other service providers
To ensure that our work programme, plans and processes are at all times accountable and transparent
To continue to develop the area of drug education and to work towards quality framework for the sector
To offer accessible, credible and relevant user-centre based on the needs of the service users
To ensure that all service users who access our programme are afforded both quality of access and equality of opportunity irrespective of their denomination, demographic or socio-economic status
To work towards greated integration with other related Crosscare services
To work in a way which empowers others to play a central role in addressing and preventing drug problems
About D.A.P

The D.A.P. is a project of Crosscare, the social care agency of the Dublin Diocese, covering Dublin city and county and covering some parts of Wicklow and Kildare. The D.A.P also has involvement at National and European level.

Target Audience

The services offered by The D.A.P are accessed by individuals or groups of all ages. Those who avail of our training programmes are, in the main, individuals and agencies who work at first hand with people of any age for whom substance use may be an issue.

We also conduct courses which are designed for a specific setting, thereby providing participants with appropriate, tailored and targeted training.

Scope

We include in our scope the prevention of all drug-related harm, whether caused by illegal or legal drugs, including alcohol and medications.

Funding

The Drug Awareness Programme has received funding from:

  • Northern Area Health Board
  • Dublin Diocese/CROSSCARE
  • Other sources (fundraising, donations and grants)

Personnel

Director: Chris Murphy

Coordinator: Conor Rowley

Website Coordinator: Michael McDonagh (michael@drugawareness.ie)

Training Coordinator: Elaine Butler

Information Officer: Susan O'Neill

Address:

DAP

Red House

Clonliffe College

Dublin 3

Republic of Ireland

ph: (00 353 1) 836 0911

fax: (00 353 1) 836 0745

email: info@drugawareness.ie

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