HAU supports recovery, healing initiatives for persons with substance use disorder
The program which aims to supplement rather than replicate existing government and pastoral educative efforts related to the recovery and healing of persons with substance use disorder (PSUDs) is intended to educate HAU students and other youth on the ill effects of substance abuse to individuals, families and the community at l ar ge.
It also aims to encourage engagement of families and the community in efforts towards the recovery, healing, functionality and eventual re-integration of afflicted individuals to the society, thereby, fostering partnership and collaboration among government and non-government institutions as well as other stakeholders. The University has started preparatory activities geared towards the drafting of an integrated plan, primordial of which is the identification of formation needs that will serve as bases for the design of an integrated program that include psycho-education, spiritual formation, counseling, wellness, development of lifelong skills, and fostering of family and community support among its components. Efforts to equip volunteers to meet the technical requirements of the program have also been laid with a series of capacitybuilding sessions for volunteers conducted from November 23 to 25 by the Sobriety Foundation, Inc. at the SJN Formation Center at Holy Angel University.
Internally, HAU’s preventive and antidrug abuse advocacy program will continuously run.