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The Minister of Health and Human Services, Jose Ignacio Nieto, accompanied by the Director General of Public Health and Consumer Affairs, Jose Miguel Acitores, attended the first day of the course ‘Vulnerable Children and Substance Use: Detection and Intervention’, which held in the CIBIR from today until November 30.

This activity, organized by the Directorate General of Public Health and Consumer Affairs, involving 40 experts in care for young social disadvantaged, aims to provide specialized training in early detection and intervention of the addictions field.

This has fostered communication and coordination of all public and private institutions working with tweens and teens who have some risk of becoming problem drug users of any addictive substance.

This training initiative arises from the need for coordination and synergy of forces that must exist between the fields of Health and Human Services to improve the care of children at risk.

This training initiative with 40 participants are participating the Association for Children Rioja (APIRO) Pioneers Foundation; municipalities of Logrono, Arnedo, Alfaro, Rincon de Soto and Haro diagram Foundation, which manages the residence and floors Iregua children’s home; Association and the New Future and Spanish Red Cross.

The course covers all the content relating to addictions and children, starting from general concepts to get one to obtain and develop, after intensive training, skills and abilities to the detection and treatment of adolescent motivation and design a program specific intervention.

Intervention in disadvantaged contexts
According to a WHO report, a fifth of teenagers under 18 suffer a problem of developmental, emotional or behavioral problems, and “one of eight” has a mental disorder, a proportion that rises to “one of five” among socially disadvantaged children: poverty and child abuse are common factors in depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Read the rest of this entry »