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CICAD
supported the Caribbean
Regional Certificate Programme in Addictions
Studies offered by the
University of the West Indies (UWI). The program
was being delivered in eight UWI
centers (Barbados, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands,
Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and
the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago).
UNDCP
funding for the first four years of the project ended
in December 1999, and although the project received
outstanding evaluations, no additional external funds
were available. Thus,
in order to continue the program, albeit on a small
scale, CICAD and the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health of Canada (formerly the Addiction Research
Foundation) decided to use the balance of the UNDCP
funds, supplemented by a CICAD contribution of
US$27,000, to develop curriculum packages and training
videos on counselling skills, pharmacology and drug
abuse, prevention programming theories, models and
techniques, and addictions interventions.
These materials will be available by early
2001.
Future
activities could include cooperation with the OAS Division
for Development of Human Resources to seek out and
award fellowships for on-line or distance education
university courses on the addictions.
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