YAM India

Community Based Peer Led Intervention (CPLI)

What is CPLI?

English

Children and adolescents living in the street, slums and homeless become particularly vulnerable to substance use in high-risk circumstances. The rate of help-seeking behaviour is low due to lack of family and community support. It is always better to intervene before they initiate substance use behaviour.

हिंदी

सड़कों, झुग्गियों और बेघरों में रहने वाले बच्चे और किशोर, ऐसी उच्च जोखिम वाली परिस्थितियों में मादक द्रव्यों के उपयोग के प्रति विशेष रूप से संवेदनशील हो जाते हैं। इसके अलावा, दूसरों की तुलना में परिवार और सामुदायिक समर्थन की कमी जैसे कई कारकों के कारण मदद मांगने के व्यवहार की दर कम है। मादक द्रव्यों के सेवन का व्यवहार शुरू करने से पहले हस्तक्षेप करना हमेशा बेहतर होता है।

Why Peer-Led?

Ensuring active participation of young people, they may be empowered to prevent substance use and disseminate information on prevention. Young people learn from each other and support themselves; this peer-to-peer trust is the foundation of CPLI.

Program Structure

1

Peer educators focus on creating awareness among vulnerable children in the community on prevention of substance use.

2

Project staff deliver specific interventions on substance use and ensure linkage for treatment and rehabilitation.

3

Peer Educators provide educational sessions on life skills, side-effects of substance use, and risk assessment among adolescents.

NMBA Three-Day Capacity Building Program — peer leader certificate distribution

Program Activities

✓Outreach activities in the community among vulnerable children and adolescents
✓Community mapping and assessment
✓Identification and training of adolescents as Peer Educators to lead peer-led community intervention
✓Life skill sessions designed for prevention of substance use, led by trained Peer Educators
✓Providing Psychosocial Therapies
✓Follow-up care including family counselling

Objectives

  1. 1

    Assess substance use among adolescents in impoverished and marginalised communities.

  2. 2

    Conduct primary prevention activities through awareness programmes.

  3. 3

    Prevent substance use and delay initiation of substance use among children, adolescents and youth.

  4. 4

    Identify and train selected peer educators in the community.

  5. 5

    Implement early prevention education led by trained peer educators.

  6. 6

    Provide awareness about referral and linkage to counselling, treatment and rehabilitation services for substance-dependent adolescents.

  7. 7

    Identify adolescents subjected to substance use and facilitate their referral or admission into Rehabilitation Centres or Drop-In Centres.

All CPLI services are completely free / सभी सेवाएं निःशुल्क हैं

KAYA KALP peer educator with students at Bal Diwas