Photo from Pixabay Through the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) “Yakap Bayan Program” (YBP), 8,390 Recovering Persons Who Used Drugs (RPWUDs) have been reintegrated into their families and communities since 2021, an agency official said on Thursday, April 25. DSWD...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged the local government units (LGUs) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to grant persons who were addicted to illegal drugs but already wants to reform their lives easy access to the government’s rehabilitation and...
Over 200 Filipino and foreign stakeholders have supported the Manila Declaration on Creating Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) Systems in the country, which expands the access to evidence-based health treatment for drug users and discharge reforms for an improved criminal justice system. The...
BAGUIO CITY – The City Social Welfare and Development Office reported that some 648 former drug personalities completed their six-month community-based rehabilitation program that allowed them to be immersed back with the mainstream society and live normal lives. Social Worker Officer Ellen...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its field office in Northern Mindanao (Region 10), has formed the Regional Technical Working Group (TWG) for the Implementation of Aftercare, Reintegration, and Transformation Support for Recovering Drug Dependents. Under a memorandum...
Individuals recovering from illegal-drug use in Luzon are expected to benefit from a two-year program that will provide them livelihood skills training designed to help them earn a living. (Photo courtesy of the Ako ang Saklay, Inc. Facebook Page) The program dubbed "Ako ang Saklay" livelihood...
