The Day Center ‘Solidarity’ has been functioning in Sofia since 2003. Its mission is to inform and consult young addicts and their families, as well as to motivate them to participate in the rehabilitation and treatment programs. Our main goal is to ensure our customers’ independent life and social reintegration.
The ‘Solidarity’ program builds on the community treatment therapy model, which is tailored to the conditions in the Center. It functions successfully due to the support of the community therapy from Trempolin, Belgium. The program participants meet every day at 9 a.m. and go back home at 5 p.m. Thus the Center activities present the model of a ‘flexible non-residential program’.
The Day Center services comprise two main categories: non-rehabilitation and rehabilitation. The first type includes personal consultation and motivation discourses in the Information Center ‘Ambassadors of Hope’, which was opened in June, 2006. Youngsters and people of age together with their families find support and consultation there. The program is socially oriented as to provide equal access to anybody in need.
The rehabilitation program takes two directions: training in art workshops (cooking, cleaning, creativity training, sports and social skills) and therapy work in groups. The two sections of the program are interrelated. The workshop trainings follow a model of real-life community activities and thus prepare the participants for real life. At the same time the workshop interactions facilitate the therapy work in groups. That’s how social reintegration is achieved.
The program involves boys and girls of age, independently of their education. Their parents and relatives also become part of the rehabilitation and are additionally trained by a specialized service unit. Moreover, there is another group, which involves working people, already covered by other rehabilitation programs but in need of support and assistance.
As a long-term initiative, the Day Center program plans for a further development of the reintegration program as well as setting up of a specialized service for reintegration of youngsters. The project team is highly motivated to carry on the current activities. The ‘Solidarity’ Center is a partner in a Trempolin project under Leonardo Program for mobility actions, named ‘European companionship in education, training by travel’.
In order to bring in community members in the project implementation, we encourage and involve volunteers, who participate in the communication campaign and other events. We take pride in the fact that our initiative ‘Ambassadors of Hope’ was acknowledged and supported by Belgium. That’s how we managed to organize two fundraising exhibitions, the first of which was backed up by the Rеgion Wallonne. We are deeply thankful to the artist Nikolay Rusev, who donated part of the raised money to our Center.
On implementing our activities focused on addicts, our major partners include: Prevention and Information Center on Drug Habits - Sofia, Foundation ‘Initiative for Health’, the hospitals in Suhodol and Radnevo.
Association ‘Actions against Epidemic Diseases
and Drug Habits’
14 Boulevard G.M. Dimitrov, office 123
Sofia
1797 Bulgaria
Tel. (++ 359 2) 963 0717
Tel./Fax: (++ 359 2) 971 1096
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www.solidarnost-bg.org
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