Publication
Prevention Publication
Coloring Book
In
December 2004 White
Buffalo Treatment Centre
in partnership with artist Kevin Perry developed a colouring
book aimed at school aged children.
12 pages
promote healthy living messages. The back cover features a
message to parents about parenting as a form of prevention. A
limited number of colouring books are available from the centre in
your area.
Posters
In
an effort to raise awareness about solvent abuse, CCSA and YSAC
co-sponsored a poster contest directed at Canadian children and
youth. Participants were invited to submit a poster design focusing
on key prevention themes such as the harms of solvent use and how to
say no to solvent use. Winners were announced on March 15, 2005 at
the International Forum on Youth Solvent Addiction Treatment and
Research.
Prevention Manual
In
1998 White Buffalo Treatment Centre in conjunction with several
concerned organizations developed a Province wide prevention manual.
In 2004, White Buffalo Board which represents all of the
organizations agreed to have the manual available for national
publication. The manual underwent some edits and the result is now
available through the treatment centre in your region. The manual
includes session ideas for K- Highshool, Fact Sheets for educators
as well as 12 ready to use overheads for delivering solvent abuse
education and awareness in your school or community group. Please be
advised manuals are best distributed in conjunction with a 1 day
prevention manual training program which can be scheduled through
the centre.
Research Publication
Resiliency and Holistic Inhalant Abuse Treatment
In Canada, a major and innovative national response to inhalant
abuse among First Nations youth has been the establishment of
residential treatment centres through the federally funded National.
Native Youth Solvent Addiction program (NNYSA). This paper focuses
on the role of a holistic conception of resiliency in inhalant abuse
treatment in the NNYSA program...
By: Colleen Anne Dell, PhD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, and Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse,
Debra E. Dell, BA, Co-ordinator Youth Solvent Addiction Committee,
Carol Hopkins, MSW, Executive Director Nimkee NupiGawagan Healing Centre
Source: http://www.naho.ca
Designing a Tool to Measure the Impact of Client Length of Stay on Treatment Outcome
In 2003, the Youth Solvent Addiction Committee (YSAC) partnered with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) to examine the role of program length and length of client stay in youth residential solvent treatment program design. The foremost conclusion was there is still much to be learned about residential treatment programming for First Nations youth who abuse solvents, and that the issues of program length and client length of stay are far from resolved...
Prepared for: Youth Solvent Abuse Committee, c/o Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute
Prepared by: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Project team: Colleen Anne Dell, Greg Graves
Acknowledgment: Alan Ogborne
Youth Residential Solvent Treatment Program Design:
An Examination of the Role of Program Length and Length of Client Stay
The
inhalation of psychoactive solvents such as glue, gasoline and lysol
can provide the user with an instant rush of euphoria and other
effects that some users find rewarding (e.g., loss of inhibition,
altered sense of reality, hallucinations). However, the solvent user
risks several debilitating effects such as loss of motor skills,
seizures, diarrhea, abdominal pain, anxiety, irritability and even
death from a single use. Chronic inhalation can be addictive and may
result in damage to internal organs, peripheral nerves and failure
of the liver and kidneys...
Submitted to: Youth Solvent
Abuse Committee
c/o
Nechi Training, Research, and Health Promotions Institute
Submitted by:
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Project
Team: Colleen Anne Dell, Alan Ogborne, Patricia Begin,
Gary Roberts, Debbie Ayotte,
Manon Blouin and Debbie Dell
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