This is a set of actions for community intervention in urban areas - slums and high risk areas where micro-commercialization, drug abuse, family violence, pernicious gangs and delinquency are present. The proposal focuses on a number of drug abuse prevention activities conducted with high risk populations. This is a prevention model for impoverished areas.

INTERVENTION AREAS

§ Barrios Altos
§ Cárcamo
§ La Huaca in Magdalena
§ Renovación in La Victoria
§ Alto Perú in Chorrillos

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

Organize and strengthen grass-roots community coalitions to promote drug abuse prevention actions in impoverished, high-risk, micro-commercialization, high drug consumption areas.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Provide technical assistance to public and private institutions on prevention strategies addressed to high-risk areas.

Train public and private institutions on prevention strategies addressed to high-risk areas.

Strengthen reception centers and community spaces in micro-commercialization and drug consumption areas holding prevention activities.

Develop various prevention activities in conjunction with community coalitions, NGO´s, public and private institutions interested in pursuing prevention work in high-risk areas.

Design prevention action plans in high-risk zones in coordination with the coalitions.

Form teams and work tables in high-risk drug consumption and micro-commercialization areas.

Ascertain adolescent awareness of their social environment (high-risk drug areas) and their cognitive skills.

Train and strengthen community leaders' skills (multiplying agents) on drug issues and the work in high-risk areas. .

STRATEGIES

DRUG PREVENTION WORKSHOPS FOR WOMEN LIVING IN DRUG MICRO-COMMERCIALIZATION AREAS

The community intervention strategies include the mobilization of social mediators in extremely high-risk areas. Women play a leading role in prevention work, providing spaces to develop activities.

CEDRO´s work consists in coordinating with organized groups of women establishing their own schedules and spaces, including the streets. The idea is to encourage a gradual improvement of the community's quality of life as a whole, with special emphasis on youths.

GOOD USE OF CHILDREN'S LEISURE TIME

The strategies are basically of an artistic-recreational nature, encouraging an interest in reading and the development of social and communicational skills. The objective being to promote a different outlook of what the members of the community themselves can offer.

The second level of intervention consists in offering job-training opportunities for youths.