An agreement has been made with an investment of €1 million for the prevention and treatment of addictions, which will see more services provided by Agenzija Sedqa towards this end.

The government advised that this agreement has been made between the Ministry for Equality, Research and Innovation and the Foundation responsible for Social Welfare Services (FSWS), within the Ministry for Solidarity and Development, Social Justice, the Family and the Rights of the Child.

It was explained that the agreement will work on four key areas, including the consolidation and strengthening of current prevention programmes, the implementation of new initiatives in post-secondary schools, the visibility of the services provided and the human rights dimension to working with people with addiction difficulties.

It also aims to expand prevention awareness campaigns through a website and an online chat facility. These FSWS-run online facilities will be providing accessible, user-friendly and convenient help to those particular audiences for whom these prevention initiatives are intended.

Agenzija Sedqa, on behalf of the FSWS, and the Human Rights Directorate, have already collaborated in recent years in this regard. This agreement therefore, aims to further expand Sedqa’s interventions on substance abuse and addiction in a way that reaches more students in primary, secondary and post-secondary schools, as well as adults in places of residence, work and through community interventions.

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