VHATTC-UMP has coordinated with the Department of Social Evils Prevention and Control of Ho Chi Minh City to organize a series of training courses to improve the capacity of outreach workers and volunteer social workers from 24 districts in the city. The training aims to support the participants on approaching and treating drug addicts in Ho Chi Minh City.
The training will be conducted in different districts during September 2017, as follows:
Agenda (expected):
| Time | Content |
| 8h00 – 8h10 | Course Introduction |
| 8h10 – 9h00 | Addiction as a brain disease |
| 9h00 – 9h45 | Drug classification |
| 9h45 – 10h00 | Tea break |
| 10h00 – 10h30 | Methamphetamine Addiction – Harms |
| 10h30 – 11h00 | Talk with real patient about addiction, esp. with methamphetamine |
| 11h00 – 11h45 | New Drug introduction: Shisa, Marijuana, Synthetic Marijuana, ecstasy, Ketamine, LSD |
| 11h45 – 13h30 | Lunch break |
| 13h30 – 15h00 | How to approach substance abusers out in the community |
| 15h00 – 15h15 | break |
| 15h15 – 16h00 | Building a treatment plan |
| 16h00 – 16h45 | Treatment Plan - Role play |
| 16h45 – 17h00 | End-of-the-day Evaluation |
We will update this training in the next posts.