Crinan Youth Project 2.15

The Crinan Youth Project is a community based drug treatment facility that offers a quality service to young people and their families. In engaging particularly with young people who seek to address their drug problems, we recognise that many of them have already experienced social exclusion and a fundamental lack of choice in their lives. They may also be trying to process the many challenging dimensions of adolescent development.
In order to provide the most effective support to young people and their families the project places special value on the following process:

Engage young people in alternative attractive activities
Expose them to helpful new experiences
Support them to develop flexibility in responding to the programme
Build quality relationships
Nurture the positive
Challenge what needs to change
Build-up young peoples’ self-esteem in creative ways
Bring young people to a place of choice and responsibility in their decision making
We hope that by engaging in this process, young people will achieve a happier and better quality of life, both while they are on the project and in the future.

The project favours an environment which is drug-free. While this involves the total prohibition of opiates while on the programme, it also involves supporting young people to detox from all drugs in as short a timeframe as possible.

Cost

None