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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 – A new organization has been borne out of the
recent hosting of a Health, Education and Enforcement in Partnership workshop
for agencies involved in substance abuse work in the areas of Health, Education
and Enforcement.
The workshop was conducted recently in an attempt to bring all such agencies
under one umbrella and to foster closer networking in the field of regulating
and preventing substance use or abuse.
Acting Director of the Substance Abuse Advisory Council Secretariat Ms.
Elizabeth Wilson says she is optimistic about the future because by the close of
the workshop, some giant strides had been accomplished.
“By the end of the workshop what we did was actually form a steering committee.
The larger group of over thirty representatives of agencies and some community
groups became a network that we named TEAM – an acronym for Together Everyone
Achieves More. Establishing that organization was basically the point of the
workshop.”
Along with this achievement Mrs. Wilson said participants of the workshop
reached a position that the HEP Approach, which originally is a Canadian
strategy, can and will be adopted in Saint Lucia.
The new body dubbed has scheduled a meeting for the 4th of April.
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