{"id":4552,"date":"2009-08-18T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2009-08-21T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T10:39:55","slug":"feds-donate-1-million-towards-drug-use-prevention-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/feds-donate-1-million-towards-drug-use-prevention-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds donate $1 million towards drug use prevention program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six to 10 thousand youth in Ottawa will have a better chance of saying \u2018no\u2019 to drugs thanks to a federal government donation. On Feb. 10, Pierre Poilievre, MP for Nepean-Carleton on behalf of the Honorable Leona Aglukkaq, minister of health, announced the federal government will contribute $1 million over a four year period to help eradicate youth addiction and drug usage.
\nPoilievre announced the government\u2019s support for S.T.E.P. (support, treatment, education and prevention) \u2013 a project that provides targeted help for youth in Ottawa who are at risk of engaging in substance abuse. S.T.E.P. is Ottawa\u2019s response to addressing the need for residential addiction treatment, education and prevention for young people aged 13 to 17. It is a fundraising campaign involving community partners such as Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Jim Watson, Ottawa Police chief Vern White, Mayor Larry O\u2019Brien and Michael Allen, president and CEO of United Way Ottawa.
\n\u201cThis project will help to prevent young people in high schools from taking drugs in the first place,\u201d said Poilievre \u201cActivities will be held in those schools for students who are at risk of drinking or taking drugs. This strategy helps to prevent the use of drugs, treats people with drug addictions, and combats drug trafficking. The strategy also emphasizes education for young people and their parents on the damages that drug use can cause.\u201d The initiative was announced at the Ottawa Police headquarters and is part of the government\u2019s national anti-drug strategy, which was introduced in 2007.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s why our Conservative government is providing the project S.T.E.P. with up to $1 million in support\u2014over the next four years\u2014from its drug treatment funding program,\u201d Poilievre added. According to Allen, this initiative \u201cwill no less than double the capacity for counsellors and prevention education\u201d and will -double the infrastructure that is already in place in Ottawa schools. \u201cIt\u2019s a good day for the future of our community,\u201d said White.
\n\u201cA number of schools don\u2019t have the resources they need and a number of schools certainly don\u2019t have the capacity to deal with the challenges they are facing right now.\u201d White said six to 6,000 to 10,000 youths in Ottawa will benefit from this programming. Poilievre concluded by saying this initiative is close to his heart since he has seen some of his loved ones battle drug addiction.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s very important that lives are spared from this terrible destructive path and I\u2019m hoping that this million dollar donation will help us to achieve that goal.\u201d
\nSource: meghan.graham@nepeathisweek.com Feb.21 2009<\/em><\/p>\n

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Six to 10 thousand youth in Ottawa will have a better chance of saying \u2018no\u2019 to drugs thanks to a federal government donation. On Feb. 10, Pierre Poilievre, MP for Nepean-Carleton on behalf of the Honorable Leona Aglukkaq, minister of health, announced the federal government will contribute $1 million over a four year period to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}