Addiction Counselling Workshop

The workshop had Magdalene Jeyarathnam from Center for Counselling and Mohan Babu from Hoppers Foundation make some presentations on Counselling in substance abuse related issues. 

Mr Gasper from Hoppers Foundation and Mr Varadhan from Freedom Foundation Chennai came to distribute the certificates and facilitate the group.

Addiction Counselling workshop

This workshop is for those who are interested in working with those with chemical dependency. The list of participants are as follows:

	Name	Organisation Name and Address
1	Angeline	Green Valley School
2	B Vimal Anand	Loyola College
3	Mr.Daniel	Caruna Bal Vikas -Compassion
4	Mrs.Vasanthi	Caruna Bal Vikas - Compassion
5	Kalavathy	Hopers Foundation 67 Thiruvengadam St., Perambur, Chennai 11
6	Mr.Mohan Babu
7	Mr.R. Sourinathan	Ashram trust 19,karumai Amman Nagar, Mudichur Road, West Tambaram,Chennai -45Deaddiction Center
8	Ms. Sankari	Sahodaran No.27.Railway Colony 111st Street Metha Nagar. Chennai 29.   Off 23740486
9	Devi

Child Centered Counselling Training in Ooty - Alliance India

This training in Ooty was for Alliance India - CHAHA project. This training was completed for 20 participants who were mainly counsellors or the supervisors of the project.The participants came from 10 districts in Tamil Nadu. 

Our resource team consisted of Jeeva Raghunath - professional storyteller, Chandra - theatre artist and our director Magdalene Jeyarathnam. The feedback and evaluation we received from the participants was excellent. The entire workshop was for 4 days from 19 to the 22 May 2008. 

The participants work with children who have HIV or whose parents have HIV/AIDS.

By the end of the workshop all participants learnt to tell stories, help children tell stories, draw, help children enact dramas, change the story line into something they want etc.

We also learnt fun exercises which help children to remember to take ART.