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Learning and engagement

 

Commitment Four: Learning and Engagement

Lifeline is committed to educating the public about drug use, its social context and its attendant harms in accordance with our mission.

Lifeline is committed to learning in close partnership and consultation with all those organisations and individuals whose work involves the care, treatment and support of drug users, their carers and families.

Lifeline is committed to the integration and management of knowledge (our human, information and organisational capital) in support of our services and their development and growth.

Lifeline is committed to working with and learning from our beneficiaries and our Stakeholders in pursuit of our vision.

Lifeline is committed to developing those capabilities and organisational resources consistent with the ongoing demands of today as well as the transformative demands of tomorrow.

 

Lifeline Project and FEAD

Welcome to Lifeline and FEAD (Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs). This project has been shaped by the wealth of experience, openness, and knowledge of the contributors. You are invited to comment on the clips, which are supported by footnotes to which you can add. FEAD is an ongoing Lifeline Project initiative.

For more details on FEAD see here >>

Lifeline Project: In 1971 the Lifeline Project opened a day centre for drug users in Manchester. Since its foundation Lifeline has grown and developed, and now works in a diverse range of settings across the UK. Our purpose is to relieve poverty, sickness and distress among those persons affected by addiction to drugs of any kind, and to educate the public on matters relating to drug misuse. For more on Lifeline see the following links:

Lifeline Project website
Lifeline Annual review 06/07
 

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