Drug Curtailment and Support for Ethnic Minority Stigmatised Families
From "Green Street Community Assemblies 2022"
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Drug crimes in the Green Street East, West and Boleyn are becoming an everyday occurrence. This attracts further problems and crimes to the neighbourhood, including anti-social behaviour, which is at an all-time high in the neighbourhood, and provokes gang-related crimes.
We will be addressing the Community Safety (ASB and Crime) priority through our project to curtail the use of drugs and support ethnic minority families.
Ethnic minority families find the stigma surrounding drug abuse and crimes means they cannot seek support, especially if the drug abuser is female. The barriers confining ethnic minorities to suffer in silence need to come down.
We will offer help for families to be emotionally supported and understand their important role in helping their family member, guiding them on how best they can intervene for the drug abuser to overcome misuse of drugs through a supportive program. The program will lead to inducing a reduction in drug-related crimes in the area.
We will provide one-to-one family and individual support; involve the community through community intelligence; implement strategies to influence a curtailment of drug abuse; create awareness and develop community involvement and integration through this program; encourage the use of relevant existing Newham services through signposting.
