1. Madrid Youth and Prevention department

2. Number of professionals working: 60
People assisted: in 2008
Programmes we run
Soporte (Support) programme & Parents support groups (400 youngsters and families assisted in 2008)
Treatment support apartment - PAT (22 youngsters assisted)
Therapy Residential Community - Los Álamos (36 youngsters assisted)
Educative intervention Day-Centre (423 youngsters assisted)
Prevention Programme children and parents assisted)
Some data

3. Goals of the department
Adolescents development and empowerment
Provide opportunities to demonstrate success
Eliminate and reduce misbehaviour
PREVENTION
Working methodology
Increase Protective factors
Decrease risk factors

4. Reduce abuse and use of substances Define life projects
Soporte (Support) programme & Parents support groups (400 youngsters and families assisted in 2008)
Reduce abuse and use of substances
Define life projects
Help parents to educate their sons/daughters

5. Support teenagers with misbehaving and delictives habits
2. PAT - Treatment support apartment (22 youngsters assisted)
Support teenagers with misbehaving and delictives habits
All of them are under drug and therapeutic treatment in a different specialized center, as their families are not capable to assit them
Goals: abstinence, health care, academy knowlegde, useful free time, social rules, responsability/ self-sufficient autonomy

6. Support and reinforce users to becoming unaccustomed of consumptions
3. Therapy Residential Community - Los Álamos (36 youngsters assisted)
All of them are under drug and therapy treatment in a different specialized center, as their families are not capable to assit them
Support and reinforce users to becoming unaccustomed of consumptions
Develop social skills to ease the integration on society

7. 4. Educative intervention Day-Centre (423 youngsters assisted)
2 programmes (a vocational training programme and a judicial measure programme) aimed to youngsters at social risk due to: social exclusion, failure to thrive in the education system, migrant status or legal action
Support youngsters in their personal growth
Provide them social skills and values to help them to integrate to society
Make them think over about their misbehaviours