 Teacher Training Programme on Substance Abuse SNGHS |
| In order to gain a measure of control over the rapidly growing practice of substance abuse among school children and to sensistise the teachers on the issue, a series of teacher training progrmame was initiated by Don Bosco Research Centre across various schools in Mumbai since July 2014. The first one-day training programme in the series was held at the Sree Narayana Guru High School (SNGHS), Chembur on 31st July 2014. More than 40 teachers had participated in the programme including the Principal of the school. Session covering meaning of addiction; drugs of abuse, addictive behaviour, warning signs, risk factors, treatment methods, withdrawal symptoms and long term effects of substance on the brain was handled by Dr. Sunita Shanbaug, Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel. Sessions on the `Role of Teachers in Tackling Substance Abuse and `The Preventive Measures at School Level’ were dealt by Ms. Sonali Gupta, clinical psychologist and Mr. Swapnil Pange, counsellor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences respectively. In order to assess the understanding of teachers on substance abuse, pre and post training evaluation forms were filled up and based on the evaluation, a training module would be developed at the end of series of training programmes. |