Vocational programmes help recovering patients return to work
LIBYA – The director of awareness and guidance at the National Authority for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Addicts, Tariq Al-Qirti, outlined vocational training and social rehabilitation programmes run by the authority to help people recovering from addiction reintegrate into society and the labour market.
Gaining skills while staying at treatment centres
Al-Qirti explained, in comments during a Libya Al-Ahrar TV news bulletin, which broadcasts from Turkey — followed and summarised by Al-Marsad — that the training department and the authority’s addiction treatment centres were training residents during their stay to give them skills, experience and trades that help restore confidence and start work after completing treatment and leaving the centres.
Car electrics, phones and air conditioning among the training
He pointed to workshops and programmes inside the addiction treatment and rehabilitation centre covering diagnosis of car electrical faults, mobile-phone maintenance and assembly, satellite receiver equipment, installing and removing air-conditioning units, and the basics of barbering, computing, mechanics and tyre repair — skills linked to young people’s needs and the labour market.
Partnership with the Labour Ministry and the Libyan-Korean Centre
He added that the programmes were implemented in cooperation with the labour office at the Ministry of Labour and the Libyan-Korean Centre, and that participants received accredited certificates enabling them to work with them as soon as they left the treatment centres.
Treatment lasting from one to six months
On recovery, Al-Qirti said the treatment pathway began when a resident entered the centre and could last from one to three months and up to six months. It included psychological, behavioural and cognitive treatment, religious counselling sessions to strengthen religious commitment, as well as physical and rehabilitation programmes and vocational and craft workshops.
