Collaborative drug prevention training programs for the deaf and hard of hearing /
Renante C. Rosero.
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Public Management Development Program
This Re-entry Project intends "to provide special drug prevention education, information and training programs, for the deaf and hard hearing people", that they may be equipped as individuals with very significant and useful information in combating illegal drugs. The participation and involvement of persons who are deaf and hard of hearing in the anti-drug campaign is expected to expand the support received by the government in addressing the drug problem - from the general populace extending towards their specific sector. This Re-entry Project specifically identifies an anti-drug training program for non-disabled (able-bodied) individuals, who are expert in sign language, to cascade drug preventive education and awareness among this particular marginalized group. These able-bodied individuals who have undergone the anti-drug campaign focusing on addressing drug addiction among the Deaf and Hard of and the PWD Sector in general. In the course of the implementation of this Re-entry project, several challenges - to be specific, budgetary constraints, among other - affected the immediate conduct of training for identified able-bodied individuals expected to cascade anti-drug education and awareness campaign to the deaf community. Nevertheless, prompt actions initiated by the proponent to address the problem still resulted to the realization of the intended out come. A Letter of Instruction (LOI), approved by the Director General, PDEA on June 24, 2014, paved the way for the conduct of the proposed training. It ensured the execution of the project and guaranteed completion in a nationwide scale. With this development, the PWD communities - particularly the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Group - are no longer considered as the "unreached sector" with regards to drug prevention. Though they may still be considered as a vulnerable sector to drug addiction, they can now stand a chance in the fight against drug addiction. Aside from achieving its primary objective, the project further resulted in the identification of related concepts that can also be initiated and implemented by PDEA. It also directed attention towards the possible inclusion of a situation on drug addiction among the Deaf Community in the data being managed by the Agency to improve future researchers and studies to be made along drug abuse prevention programs.
Drug abuse--Study and teaching--Philippines. Drug abuse--Prevention.--Philippines