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Inter Church Addictions Project Launches Strategic Plan
'Hope: Helping Young People Towards Recovery'
L-R: Rev John McClure (ICAP, C of I); Michael McGimpsey, MLA (Minister of Health & Social Services); Lindsay Conway (ICAP Chairperson); Paddy O’Flaherty (chairman of launch event)
ICAP -- the Inter Church Addictions Project -- today (24 June 2009) launched its first Strategic Plan for 2008-2010, 'Hope: Helping Young People Towards Recovery'.
Representatives from the Church of Ireland, Catholic, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches were joined by the Northern Ireland Assembly's Minister for Health, Mr Michael McGimpsey, MLA for the launch event which heard powerful, first-hand experiences of the impact of substance abuse on young people.
The event highlighted the urgent need for residential treatment for Northern Ireland young people, under 18, caught in the grip of substance addiction -- there is no exclusive, inpatient, residential treatment facility in Northern Ireland for young people.
ICAP seeks to provide a dedicated regional, residential, addiction treatment centre where young people can undergo an intensive rehabilitation programme with extensive aftercare and family support. it seeks also to provide support for their families.
ICAP aims to help young people caught in the grip of drug and alcohol addiction towards recovery. It was established in 2004 and formally launched in 2006. It is an inter-church group motivated by the love of God and dedicated to the building of hope and confidence among young people, particularly those with addictions and associated problems.
For further information and a copy of the Strategic Plan, contact:
Mr Chris Gruhn
Project Development Officer, ICAP
68 Berry Street,
Belfast
BT1 1FJ
T. +44 (0) 28 90 315656
E. chrisgruhn@icapni.org
W. www.icapni.org
L-R: Archdeacon Barry Dodds (C of I); Dr Stafford Carson (Presbyterian Moderator); Rev Donald Ker (Methodist President); Bishop Donal McKeown (Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Down & Connor).
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