Self-Help Groups

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NEW HORIZONS CARE CENTRE

• Best Practices of Self-Help Groups to Reduce
  Recidivism
• Presented By
• Muhammad Naveed Younus

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Self Help Group
Self-help group has become an integral part of
treatment for emotional, behavioral and all
other mental health problems. Many people find
those self-help groups as a valuable resource for
recovery and for empowerment.
Self-help support groups bring together people
with common experiences and problems.  Participant
s share their experiences, provide understanding,
support and help each other. They find new ways
to cope with problems and to deal with stressful
situation.
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Business Community Support Group
Our business Community Support group always
played vital role in social activities. We used
to collect our charity money and served for the
education, recovery of drought victim, helping
poor and deserving and food for prisoners. There
were many poor street addicts in our business
market and we wanted to send them for treatment
and rehab in any charity hospital, but we came to
know that there is not any free treatment and
rehab center for drug addicts in Pakistan. Our
business community that is always in forefront of
noble causes took the bold step of providing 100
percent Free Treatment and Rehabilitation to Drug
addicts. As we learnt to know that it is a noble
cause and there was no Free Treatment and
Rehabilitation Centre for Drug Addicts in
Pakistan.

• Business Community support group is providing
  moral and Financial support for treatment
  services.
• Due to the cooperation of this group ,
  the small plant of NHCC has become a
  fruitful tree.

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NEW HORIZONS CARE CENTRE1st 100 Free Treatment
Rehabilitation Centre In Pakistan
Branch office (for women) Block 13-D-3, Block
01 Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi Ph 021-4984990,
021-8690843
Head Office Plot B-17, Block 1, Gulshan-e-Iqbal
Karachi, Pakistan Ph 021-4819038, Fax
021-2431356
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Institutional Mandate
NEW HORIZONS CARE CENTRE

• To provide medical help, food and shelter for
  admitted drug addicts on free of cost basis
  during treatment, Rehabilitation and after care.
• To provide medical, moral and social support for
  registered clients for their whole lives.
• To help the client to reintegrate with his own
  family and community.
• To provide continuous Follow-up after treatment
  on regular basis with the consent of client and
  family.
• To provide social and moral support and reduce
  sense of alienation for Ex-drug addicts in their
  own areas through self-support groups.
• Training workshop Awareness Programmes

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Rational to Build Support Group

• Most of the addicts hail from slum areas of
  Karachi city and are leading miserable lives.
  They need money to run their families and to get
  drugs, as a result, they get involve in street
  crimes such as, mobile snatching, stealing, drug
  peddling and illicit sexual relation as well.
• Approximately, 10 to 15 spouses of drug addicts
  are involved in prostitution in order to meet the
  financial problems.
• Sometimes, old parents and siblings are compelled
  to beg on streets that has put bad impact on the
  society.

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Rational to Build Support Group

• There were no concept of self help group
  on a large scale. People were trying
  haphazardly at their own and they had strong
  believe that recovery is not possible.
• Recovering, families and community were facing
  several problems. Some of them are
• - Sustainable and sober recovery
• - Reintegration of families with addicts
• - To merge them with community
• - Searching for employment of recovering
• There were no technical guidance existed to
  establish a strong bonding among recovering
  addicts , their families and community.
• Keeping in mind all these facts, self help groups
  have been formed not only to help the addicts and
  their families but also keep them away from
  criminal activities.

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There was a strong need to build a bridge among
Recovering, Families and Community and this dream
becomes true when we learned from the training
workshops of Colombo Plan DAP that for the
solidarity of Treatment Rehabilitation there
are some basic steps to follow.

• Drug Prevention
• Pre Treatment Interventions
• After Care Services

• Full involvement of every segment of society
  is essential e.g., Ex Drug Addicts, Families,
  Community. For this purpose we established three
  types of self help groups
• Brothers of NHCC working as Ex Drug Addicts
  Support Groups,
• Family of NHCC working as Family Support Group
• Friends of NHCC working as Community Support
  Group.

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OUTREACH / DROP IN CENTERS

• Karachi City is densely populated so for the
  purpose of networking Booths/ Outreach centers
  were introduce for the first time in Pakistan for
  self help support groups.
• Currently 15 Booths / drop in centers are working
  in different areas of Karachi city under the
  management of NHCC. They all are funded by the
  community people and volunteers of NHCC except
  one which is funded by Colombo Plan DAP.

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Population 15 Million Addicts 1 Million
approximately
MAP OF KARACHI CITY
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Booths/Out Reach Centre in Karachi City

• New Karachi Booth Sector 5-F, House 57/19
• Yusuf Goth Booth
• Buffer Zone Booth
• Pahar Gunj Booth
• Azam Town, Booth Mehmood Abad Sofoot Road
• Azam Basti, Booth Mehmood Abad Gali 1
• Baldia Town Booth Mohajir Camp, Bangor Mohala
• Drigh Road Booth Cant Alfalh Bazar, Mashriq
  Karachi
• Shah Faisal Colony Booth
• Bhetai Goth Near Gulistan-e-johar
• Al-Asif square
• Liaqat Abad.
• Christen Town.
• Khuda ke Basti Out Reach Centre/ Drop in Centre
• All the places for Booths are borrowed from
  Community except Khuda Ke Basti.

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Indicators Green arrows Ex Drug Addict Support
Groups Blue arrows Community Support Group Grey
arrows Family Support Group
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RESPONSIBILITY OF HEAD OFFICE FOR SELF HELP
SUPPORT GROUPS

• NHCC is the head office and its responsibility is
  to look after the whole activities of all types
  of support groups and to provide guidance.
• NHCC send trained recovering counselors to
  booths/ outreach centers to organize support
  groups and teach them program and to supervise
  them. They remain mobilize from one area to
  another.

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Brothers of NHCC Ex Drug Addicts
Support group

• All these groups perform their responsibilities
  voluntarily
• Their responsibility is pretreatment intervention
  , monitoring , after care services and to
  arrange NA meetings on daily basis
• These groups share their problem occurred
  during recovery
• They continuously have to keep in touch with
  head office

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Benefits of Ex - addicts Support group

• They assist each other in relapse prevention
• Assist each other in coping emotional issues
• Share practical Methods in solving problems
• Help each others in improving social skills
• Share successful stories and empower each other
  positively
• Assist each other in getting education and
  employment
• Assist in outreach programs to promote
  prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Eventually, an addict with antisocial acts
  becomes a useful person not only for himself but
  also for the community that gradually enhance his
  self image. He comes back to the mainstream with
  the help of these self help groups.
• In this way, self help support groups are playing
  significant role in decreasing crime rate in
  Karachi city.

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Family of NHCCFamily Support Group

• Family Support is a group of concerned relatives
  and friends whose lives have been adversely
  affected by a loved one's addiction to alcohol or
  drugs.  

In Karachi, four Family support groups are
being run under the management of NHCC .
Many family members / codependents attend
meetings every week.
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Benefits of Family Support Groups

• Families learn the facts about drug addiction as
  an illness and how it has impaired their lives
  physically and as well as emotionally.
• They are benefited from contact with others who
  have similar problems and learn about the
  recovery process
• Families improve their own attitudes and
  behaviors through the study and practice of
  family support groups Twelve Steps and Twelve
  Traditions.
• Families began to work on their codependent
  behavior and work effectively with their patients.

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Friends of NHCC / Community Support Group

• Management of NHCC does not have to pay
  single penny for utility bills , rent and other
  amenities available there they are being run by
  community support groups.
• 14 booths / out reach centers have been
  established with the help of community and
  Brothers of NHCC.

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Benefits of Community Support Group

• They motivate other people to get involved in
  the prevention of drugs.
• Awareness-raising programs are also arranged in
  order to educate the community
• Help Brothers of NHCC to establish booths /
  out reach centers in different areas of city
• Arrange employment for recovering persons.
• 14 booths / out reach centers have been
  established with the help of community and
  Brothers of NHCC.

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Community Support Working network in Karachi

• Al asif
• Baldia
• Pahar Gang
• Shah Faisal
• Khuda Ki Basti
• Christian town

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1st Pakistan National Recovering Symposium

• 1st Pakistan National Symposium held on 3rd July.
  Federal Minister Mr. Ghous Bux Mehar was the
  Chief guest. 2300 Recovering and Codependent
  attended the Symposium, which is the record of
  largest national recovering and codependent
  Symposium in Asia.

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Future Plan of NHCC For Self Groups

• The management of NHCC is committed to
  establish the following self help groups
  in the city in order to make drug free
  city .
• Self Help Groups for Youth
• Self Help Groups for workplaces
• Self Help Groups for Religious leaders
• Self Help Groups for Legal Forum in order to
  take action against drug peddlers and
  sellers

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