Nada India Foundation News update

Sober Recovery Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (SRTRC) is a secular, non- government, non-profit agency; providing counselling, support and treatment to the victims of addiction and HIV/AIDS in Nepal. SRTRC had two separate facilities for male and female clients. SRTRC along with Nada India organized the two day NADA Acudetox Ear Acupuncture Training Workshop from the 23-24 March, 2017. This program saw the participation of more than two dozon  Peer led drug recovery centers from across Kathmandu. It proved very beneficial and will go a long way in cultivating better and efficient detoxification treatments for victims of addiction in the country. Nada India Foundation works towards promoting inclusive non-pharmacological approaches and methods like Acudetox, peer counseling for protection and recovery. It also advocates for balanced and healthy public policies to prevent, control non-communicable diseases and drug free life style.Nada India strengthens the prevention and ...

There was a spurt in suicides by farmers in Telangana last week. Worldwide  800,000  people commit suicide every year. Of these 1,35,000  [17%] are Indians! ] By: T.K Thomas,   Oct 24, 2017 Recently, an addiction prevention expert and activist  and chairman of NADA India Foundation Suneel Vatsyayan  who works on mental health issues was interacting with a large number of marginalized children in the Mangolpuri area of the National Capital organized by Dr.  A.V.Baliga Trust. As part of the session he showed them a recent television interview with popular Hindi film actress Deepika Padukune . The focus of the programme was on the screen diva’s experience and views on depression. The children reacted differently and one of their unanimous reactions was their consternation at a celebrity like Deepika suffering from depression. It was beyond their comprehension as to how such a leading actor and daughter of a former World Badmi...

Drink Revolution pre-launch party @ARSD College in Collaboration with NISD SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG THE YOUTH About 170 students participated in this training programme. Participants were from Ram Lal Anand College ,Aryabhatta College, Maitreyi College, Rajdhani College, Kalindi College, P.G.D.A.V College and A.R.S.D College.  The First Session was taken by Suneel Vatsayan , founder and chairperson of NADA India Foundation. He is an avid researcher, philanthropist and blogger who has been associated with IOGT Internationa l for more than three decades. He is actively engaged in the field of sensitising adolescent community in the slum, villages, schools and colleges on various issues like HIV, NCDs, alcohol/ drug abuse and violence.  His session was very interactive and lively which included examples that established a very good rapport with the audience. He also shared his experiences of working with drug users and people a...

By Suneel Vatsyayan, Drug-related harm: personal and societal Recently, I attended the cremation of Suresh*. He died prematurely because of cardiac arrest at the age of 49 leaving behind his wife and two sons. He had earlier lost his friend Pawan* at the age of 39 because of lung cancer. Both Suresh and his friend had been drug free and physically healthy for 24 and 13 years respectively. Suresh and Pawan were treated for their multiple drug use starting with marijuana at Navjyoti Drug Rehabilitation Center, a program funded by the Ministry of Social Justice. In Delhi, Suresh had been treated for his substance use problems 17 times prior to the last treatment in different nursing homes and NGO-run programs. Later on both Suresh and Pawan were involved in conducting a peer-led drug rehabilitation center in the outskirts of Delhi. Both continued to attend Narcotic Anonymous self-help groups, regularly run in Delhi. These N.A. groups have a substantial role and have greatly contrib...

Nada India &   DakshamA , board members of Healthy India Alliance   prioritised patient and care giver led advocacy within the scope of HIA activities Alliance Highlights from 2016  In its first year, the Healthy India Alliance (HIA) – constituted of 16 members – initiated and laid out the groundwork for collective civil society advocacy on NCD related action in India. Priority actions included mapping and benchmarking of the Indian NCD policy agenda, empowering civil society to monitor Government policies and promote accountability towards the NCD targets, and leveraging global developments on NCDs and SDGs to boost national action.   As part of its coalition building work, the alliance conducted the first National NCD Civil Society Consultation (April 25-27, 2016) involving approximately 80 CSOs in conjunction with the WHO Country Office for India, the NCDA, and the American Cancer Society (ACS). The meeting was attended by representatives from the I...

Highlights of the report This report, a product of joint collaboration between Embassy of Sweden in India, Swecare, and the Swedish Trade Council (STC) in India, aims to understand the current situation of healthcare and map out the various segments that form a part of it, to identify potential opportunities that exist for Swedish stakeholders within the Indian healthcare segment. More specifically, it aims to explore the opportunities available in the selected areas of public health, lifestyle diseases, infectious diseases, elderly and geriatric care, medical education, and frugal engineering.... The Healthcare sector is rapidly emerging as one of the mainstays of the Indian economic growth. In the coming years, the industry is likely to witness a compounded annual growth rate of around 17%-18% and is expected to be worth around SEK 1700 billion by 2016. The growth is likely to be driven by various government programs that are focusing on provision of affordable healthcare servi...

Mr.Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairperson interacted and shared his experience of working drug users and Non communication diseases #NCDs and Peer education work with undergraduate students from various social sciences disciplines, interested in learning about NGOs. from University of Florida "UF in India" program was organized by PAIRVI &;  CECOEDECON . India International Centre Lodhi Road, New Delhi . The Group of 16 st is led by Muthusami Kumaran, Ph.D. Department of Family, Youth &; Community Sciences University of Florida. Professor Sanjay Bhatt ( Department of Social work ,Delhi University)  facilitated  the discussion and  gave historical perspective of  a voluntary movement in India. Mr.Digvijay also shared his experience. Pairavi and Student group from University of Florida was presented with Nada India Friend scroll.Students interacted with communities and future opportunities for collaboration were discusses.

Healing process starts Healing process starts once you take away the alcohol & bring people together: Suneel Vatsyayan, Founder NADA India Foundation #UdtaBihar Posted by India Today on Thursday, June 1, 2017

NAPSWI  observes  World Social Work Day  on the  21st of March 2017 . The theme of this year ‘Promoting Community and Environmental Sustainability’ relates to the third pillar of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development. NAPSWI is a non-profit, non- political, national level organization dedicated to the promotion of standard and status of social work profession.  NAPSWI intends to fulfill twin purpose : to promote the social work profession across the country with the aim of improving  the quality of services in the social welfare and social development sectors and to protect interests of social work professionals. Vision To create a compassionate fraternity of professional social workers. Mission To advance excellence in education, training and practice of professional social work through – education, research, training, networking, advocacy, resource development. Objectives Increase awareness about social work pro...

World Federation Against Drugs renews membership of Nada India Foundation 

The health budget this year has made special provisions for elimination of five infectious diseases, strengthening of rural sub-centres, recruitment of specialist doctors in government hospitals, increased allocation for programmes for women and children, and free treatment for the elderly poor. Missing in this list is a mention of increased budgetary support for the prevention, control and care for non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases — the major causes of ill health, disability and death in the country today. These diseases do not only afflict urban residents. They are the major cause of death and ill health in rural areas, where incomes are lower, and medical services are more difficult to reach. A small part of this distress could have been addressed through additional budgetary provisions. This would also have reflected an acknowledgement on the part of policymakers, that these conditions, and not infectious diseases, are now the major ...

The right to health is a fundamental right and not a favour doled out by successive governments at the Centre and the state. With elections being held in the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur this year, it’s time people used their vote to demand their right to health. A déjà vu moment from Odisha this week once again put the spotlight on the unacceptable gaps in India’s public health delivery. Gati Dhibar carried his dead five-year-old daughter Sumi on his shoulder for 15 km from the Palahada Community Health Centre (CHC) in the Angul district in Odisha to his village for cremation after he was couldn’t get a hearse at the hospital. Too poor to pay for transport, Dhibar’s plight echoes two similar incidents in Odisha last year – one in Malkangiri district where a man walked six km with his seven-year-old daughter’s body after the ambulance taking them to the hospital left them midway after learning that the girl had died, and the other in the Kala...

Hiring managers, across all Professional / Technical (PT) sectors say 60 percent of candidates globally lack the right combination of hard and soft skills, highlights a recent survey by Kelly Services. PT hiring managers most frequently cite the ability to listen (81 percent) and teamwork (72 percent) as key soft skills that they look for in potential candidates. Team work is even more critical for engineering talent, at 85 percent. The latest Kelly Global Workforce Insights (KGWI) survey on Career Resilience also found that across the globe, 60 per cent of millennials are concerned with keeping their skills updated, reflecting the uncertain economic times that they grew up in, their fascination with technology and disruptive business models, and their relatively high degree of comfort with change. Geographically, APAC workers (64 percent) are significantly more concerned with skills remaining current when compared to Americas (55 percent) and EMEA (56 percent). PT workers repr...