Leading organization: Il Pioppo, Italy

Funding source: European Commission, programme Dafni III

Period of implementation: December 9, 2011 – December 8, 2012

Resume: The goal of the project is to improve the condition of female drug addicts, who are victims of home abuse. The project also helps indirectly vulnerable women, who live in an environment of social and cultural privations or under unhealthy conditions (from fragmentary families, homeless, emigrants, imprisoned, prostitutes), who can use drugs and be exposed to the risk of abuse in the future.

The main goals of the project are:

A. to make the access of female drug addicts to social and healthcare services easier and to guarantee that the social and healthcare workers have the necessary knowledge for the problem and the skills to recognize abuse and to support the victims.

B. to provide new instruments for consultation and support of the women, who use drugs, who are victims of sexual abuse or are exposed to the risk of abuse.

C. to encourage the active participation of teachers from secondary schools and universities, young leaders and animators, pedagogues and social workers, who are in contact with the young people in vulnerable condition, to apply informative and preventive activities directed to the minimization of drug use, which facilitates sexual abuse.