REPORTING A PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE: COMMUNITY-BASED PREVENTION PROGRAM IN THE URBAN AND RURAL NEIGHBORHOODS AT THE INDUSTRIAL REGION OF ASSALUYEH

Background and Aim : Today, community-based approach has been recognized as a modern and efficient approach to the preventive intervention and immunization of the society members, in which the role of environmental and social factors in the quality of life and social welfare of people are considered. Accordingly, and in view of the important mission, the community-based teams of neighborhoods, in the Assaluyeh county, as community-based organization (CBO) voluntarily and participatory and as a new and specialized organization in the area of promoting the mental-social health and preventing social damages, began their activity from 2017 in the county. Its members after attending in 7 compressed training workshops by the aim of training local facilitators and training in the area of community-based principles, team work, the principles of participation, evaluation of requirement and analyzing the problem, prioritization of the problem and formulating the project, obtaining support, evaluation and measurement of the programs began their activities in the form of 8 urban and rural teams in Assaluyeh county, until through performing the defined tasks in the society take a step in order to reduce the rate of social damages in this industrial and economic region. The 8 teams operating in this county given the mission of its unit that is promotion of mental-social health and preventing addiction, now operate under a unit organization called the community-based network of Assaluyeh county . The community-based plan despite of being new in Assaluyeh county, and with less than two years old, due to holding the training classes, several festivals regarding leisure time, promoting social vitality, preventing addiction and providing an opportunity for participation of the all classes of people in the affair of their neighborhood, has had up to now good success and participation. In the end, the facilitators and members of these teams hope that through increase of the governmental organizations authorities’ cooperation and support of the region people, while introducing this model as successful native model, day to day observe the promotion of the preventive plans and development of a place free from any drug in Assaluyeh region.

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reporting an experience ، preventing addiction ، community-based ، Assaluyeh