CityWide calls on Minister not to cut drugs services
CityWide continues to oppose cuts to local drugs services. Budgets to LDTF & RDTF'S have already been severely cut during 2009, these cuts combined with the impact of the McCarthy proposals will be devastating for community drug projects and will have immediate and serious implications for drugs users, their families and communities. We have once again written to the Minister to outline our deep concerns...
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Launch of CityWide's response to the Government's National Drugs Strategy
Speaking at the launch of CityWide's response to the Government's National Drugs Strategy, Daithi Doolan, Citywide Co-ordinator said, "It is now a fact that every city and town in Ireland is being affected by the ongoing drugs crisis yet this government sees fit to relegate responsibility for its own National Drug Strategy to that of a part-time job.
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New Structures for the New National Drugs Strategy
Changes have been made in the co-ordination & institutional structures of the New National Drugs Strategy. These include the establishment of an Office of the Minister of Drugs (OMD) and the setting up of an Oversight Forum on Drugs & a Drugs Advisory Group
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Daithí Doolan is the new Citywide Co-ordinator
Citywide is delighted to welcome Daithí Doolan as our new co-ordinator. As a long-time supporter of Citywide, Daithi has attended and contributed to many Citywide general and network meetings. Between 2004 & 2009 Daithí as a Dublin City Councillor...
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Community Drug Project Managers Graduate
Congratulations to the managers of community drug projects who graduated last week from the Citywide sponsored NCI course in Managing Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector.
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CityWide website is being re-developed
We want to make our website more relevant to communities by providing a resource for community groups & projects to access information, to showcase the work of local communities and to facilitate the sharing of programmes, good practice and information.
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Special CE/ Drug Rehab Projects
CityWide has writtten to the Minister to express concern about the McCarthy proposal to do away with dual entitlement... A Citywide subgroup to look progression and learning out comes for participants on CE Rehab Project has been set-up...
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Prisons Network
CityWide is re-forming the prisons network. If you project or group visits clients in prison or if you have clients facing prison sentences or due for release...
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Community Reps training & cluster meetings
Daithi & Cathy have been out meeting with community reps from RDTF's across the country to hear first hand about the issues of concern and to discuss our Community Reps training programme. In the new year a cluster meeting for the LDTF community reps in the Dublin area will be held
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CityWide supports Trade Union campaign against cuts in the community sector
CityWide has been working in partnership with the trade union movement and specifically SIPTU since 1995 to campaign for an adequate response from government and the state to the Drugs Crisis. SIPTU supports our current campaign to highlight the impact on communities of the savage cutbacks being applied to Task Force budgets...
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Alcohol to be included in the National Substance Misuse Strategy
The National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 was published as an 'interim' Strategy pending the drafting and finalisation of a National Substance Misuse Strategy.
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