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Providing digital, supportive and counseling services to addicts and their families | ||||
The development of this specific action aims to solve the problem of counceling services and sessions, which as a project is the main activity of the organization, for addicts and their families, who live in different parts of Greece but due to the distance cannot attend in person appointments with the councelors and supportive members of the organization. An online interactive digital platform will be set up, to virtually connect the interested addicted person and their family with an addiction coucelor, to carry out therapeutic sessions, as if they were on site in OASIS. To carry out this task, 3 working positions will be created, with state-of-the-art computers, web cameras, microphones and corresponding software. The novelty of this effort lies in the connection of addicted individuals with the consulting group of "OASIS", on a pan-Hellenic level, to provide our services to those who need it throughout the country. Thus more and more addicted individuals themselves will be helped, along with their families who are known to suffer just the same. |
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In its 20 years of operation, "OASIS" has supported approximately 10,000 people throughout the country and has become the point of reference in the field of addiction, having been the first to introduce the 12 step treatment program, according to the model of "Alcoholics Anonymous" to Greece. The target groups that will benefit from the organization's activities are:
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The action aims to have a permanent duration and to occupy the organization in such a way that the added value together with the classical forms of counseling and therapeutic interventions will not only maintain the social benefits of our actions even after the end of funding and action, but it will also work cumulatively in the direction of increasing the social footprint for the benefit of addicts and of their families. |
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Upon completion of the requested action that will take advantage of modern, cutting edge technologies. whose added value together with the classic forms of counseling and therapeutic interventions not only will it maintain the social benefits of our actions after the funding ends, but it will work cumulatively in the direction of increasing the social footprint for the benefit of dependents and their families. Counseling individual and group support for addicted people and their families We aim to create an online digital platform, using cutting-edge technology, which will bring the interested individuals and their families a step closer to finding a solution to their serious and destructive issue of addiction. Addicted persosns will be a few steps away from coming in contact with the therapeutic team of therapists and councelors that "OASIS" has at its disposal. To bring this aim to reality, 3 working positions will be created, with 3 new, state-of-the-art computers, microphones and web-cameras. The innovative nature of our activities comes down to our aim to create a pan-Hellenic network that will help the team of OASIS carry out their task and complete their goals. Thus the organization will be a "matrix of self-help groups", for any type of addiction and family groups that will be connected with other volunteering groups and organizations. In this way, more and more addicts will be helped themselves and their family members who as is known they suffer the same as the addicts. |
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Partnerships and collaborations will be developed with: -Public bodies dealing with the field of addiction (KETHEA-OKANA etc.) -Public psychiatric and mental health institutions -Municipalities and community enterprises -Metropolises, parishes and spiritual orders - Similar institutions to our organization |
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3 permanent new jobs will be created with the use of 3 new PCs with state-of-the-art technology cameras, microphones and related software. These positions will also be supported by volunteers who are ex-addicts who remain sober and their participation in this initiative helps them stay "clean" and now derive joy from creative work |
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The action will be developed at the headquarters of the organization in Thessaloniki, but its scope may not is gradually expanding throughout the Greek territory. |
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"OASIS" will be evaluating the intervention of the action to be carried out at a specific point in time (interim and ex post evaluation) will focus on whether the objectives have been met and the intended outcomes have been achieved, as well as the impact on the organization's future operation and content of its structure and coherence. All prescribed scientific methods and procedures will be applied with the use of questionnaires and indicators for drawing conclusions. The internal evaluation of our actions results from the processing of the dependents' data derived on the basis of the principles of privacy and confidentiality and arises only through figures. The meetings of the executives of the specific action will be held every 15 days. Each executive in charge of the specific tasks will create a of the quantitative program and qualitative account of the actions, the number of people (beneficiaries) that have benefited by the community related with other addicted individuals and the team of professionals and volunteers in "OASIS", as well as the consequent impact of actions at local and national level. |
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From the operation of the above action, "OASIS" will add one more powerful tool to its arsenal developed in the 17 years of its operation to combat all kinds of addiction and which it practices traditionally and with classic ways of counseling and support. It is now entering the electronic online counseling process and this will bring people together, maximize the already known and recognized "social footprint" in society The innovation of the effort lies in the fact of networking on a pan-Hellenic level and will be connected to groups self-help that have now been developed throughout the Greek territory. The consulting of the group of members of "OASIS" will maximize its positive and constructive intervention over time and scope as it will include addicts and members of their families from all over the country, Thus the organization will be a "matrix of self-help groups", for all kinds of addiction and in family groups which will also connect with other voluntary groups and organizations. In this way, more and more addicts will be helped themselves and their family members who, as is known, suffer the same as addicts |