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Dr Jackie Anundo ISSUP -KENYA  Secretary, attended a 2-day summit hosted by the Police, Treatment and Community  Collaborative (PTACC). PTACC is an organisation that seeks to strategically enhance the quantity and quality of community behavioural health and social service options through engagement in deflection and pre-arrest diversion

PTACC is presently driving an initiative to promote Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI). Dr Anundo attended the summit on behalf of ISSUP Kenya. Also present was Dr Beatrice Kathungu, former ISSUP Kenya Executive Committee member and Regional Coordinator for...

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Le Dr Matilda Mghoi, membre fondateur d’ISSUP Kenya, serait présent au conseil d’administration de C&P et membre fondateur d’ISSUP Kenya, accompagné de l’ancien administrateur d’ISSUP Kenya, le Dr Richard Gakunju (ancien président du GCCC et directeur clinique de la MASAA).

Le Code d’éthique sera présenté par Catherine Mwati, présidente du sous-comité d’éthique et de discipline. Elle sera animée par Albert Muraya.

Des points de développement professionnel continu à gagner par les participants. L’événement aura...

Dans cette édition de la Newsletter de l’ISSUP, nous vous apportons des mises à jour sur les subventions du Plan Colombo, une sélection d’emplois, des événements à venir et un rapport de la Semaine nationale de prévention de la toxicomanie au Kenya.

ISSUP KENYA interacted with more than 50 officers representing ministries, counties, departments, and agencies (MCDAs) at the Kenya School of Government in Embu. The Essential Counselling Skills Training, led by the Counselling Department within the Ministry of Public Service, Performance, and Delivery Management, focuses on developing Workplace Mental Health Champions for the public sector.

Participants were introduced to ISSUP and received guidance on the significance of becoming members of this professional association. In discussions with Grace Wanjiku, Secretary Counselling, and GCCC...

We are excited to announce that registration for the in-person training sessions at the Thessaloniki 2024 Global Event is now live!

At the beginning of November, ISSUP and ISSUP Kenya attended the 25th Annual Congress of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) in Marrakesh, Morocco.

The theme of the 2023 ISAM Congress was ‘Improving Care and Compassion in Addiction: XXV Years of Global Focus and Perspectives’. The Director of ISSUP Kenya Dr Pamela Kaithuru together with Brian Morales, the Chief of the Counternarcotics Branch of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and ISSUP's Deputy Director Livia Edegger participated in a panel on the importance of developing an...