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: |
Michael McDonagh |
Education Officer: |
Marie Scally |
Education Officer: |
Clíodhna Mahony |
Development Worker: |
Susan O'Neill |
| Development
Worker : |
Ciara
Ní Cholmáin
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| Online/
Helpline Officer: |
Andrew
Osborn |
| Parish
Outreach: |
Gerard
Robinson |
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