Nada India Foundation News update

Euro Psych Nurses for U.S. Video The NADA conference in Dallas (April 2008) got an excellent report from Kajsa Landgren on the vastly expanded use of NADA in European psychiatric hospitals. This year at the Ann Arbor conference in June 2009 we want to expand on this lesson. We can bring 1-2 nurses from each country that has a large NADA mental health program to our Ann Arbor conference. These countries include Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland—let me know if there……. http://acudetox.com/news/ NADA Earns trust from state of Louisiana The tragedy of hurricane Katrina (2005) flooding the city of New Orleans has led to a remarkable advancement in NADA’s role in that location. Due to success of treating New York City firemen after 9/11, NADA acupuncturists, led by Wendy Henry, were sent to New Orleans in 2005 to treat homeless and highly stressed police and fire personnel. These treatments were very popular and led to the suggestion that all first responders have NADA training. NADA acu...

Mr.Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairman Nada India Foundation conducted an interactive session on “Networking , Partnership Building and Convergence for Drug Addiction Prevention and Control” on September 12, 2008 The LNJN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY & FORENSIC SCIENCE Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India organized a National Sensitization Workshop on Drug Abuse Prevention .. Dr. B. N. CHATTORAJ, Professor of Criminology, Chaired the session. The Workshop was attended by senior level officers from the Criminal Justice System from all over the country including Inspector General of Police, Dy. Inspector General of Police, Dy. Commissioner of Police, Addl. Director General of Police, District and Sessions Judges, Addl. District Sessions Judges, Sr. Level Officers from Prisons and Prosecution. Some prominent NGOs working in the field of Drug Abuse Prevention also participated.

MCD Recreation center for senior citizens has been locked for almost six years, the day it was constructed in Mendawali village, east Delhi; it was discovered by trainees of Pehachaan computer community training program organized by Nada India Foundation in collaboration with National Institute of Social Defence Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment The location of this center was found on internet while surfing on Google search engine by trainees of computer course. Mr.Phool Singh 64, rededicate himself to revive the recreation center for senior citizen, he says computer community education program helped him to build his lost identity as local leader. Once, he was focal point of local politics but left everything gradually and put on the margin of the changed village. During the initial discussions and survey, senior citizens denied the need of such training at this age and laughed away the proposal of joining the course. They talked about what the people would think specially...

...........Last year, a Chattarpur-based NGO, Nada India Foundation, visited the locality to impart computer training to senior citizens. “I enlisted for the classes, where people exhorted me to form a society,” says Singh. Luckily, for Singh, the Mandawali community centre set up by the MCD in 2000 was lying vacant—as per Government regulations, any registered charitable society could apply for it. “Nobody ever paid any attention to it. It served as a meeting joint for gamblers,” says Singh. Along with a few others, Singh promptly formed and registered the Senior Citizens Association, of which he is the president. They began with 18 members. In February this year, the 200-sq-ft centre, located in the middle of the Mandawali Subzi Mandi, was opened. Singh, who went from door to door after his daily morning walk to enlist people, is now proud of the 114-member association. For the past six months, opening the doors of the centre at 9 a.m. and closing them at 5.30 p.m. has been a daily r...

On 2nd September, 2008, Nada India team of professionals conducted a training session on “Positive thinking for Good living” for the workers of National Thermal Power Corporation at Badarpur Unit New Delhi The workshop was participatory in nature. The workshop's emphasis was on healthy living and how positive thinking effects relationship & productivity. The workshop was organized by Bhartiya Yog Sansthan .