BJMP sets up barangay-based drug rehab

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=1&rid=918730
• Thursday, September 1, 2016

(PNA), RMA/AMD/EDS

MANILA (PNA) -- The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) has organized a barangay-based rehabilitation program for the behavior-shaping of inmates of Barangay Old Balara, Quezon City.

“This is one of BJMP’s contributions to the President’s war against drugs,” Jail Director Serafin P. Barreto, Jr., BJMP’s new Chief and the brainchild of the rehabilitation program.

BJMP started training volunteers who were also citizens from the same barangay using a Therapeutic Community Modality Program (TCMP) model for the behavioral setting of inmates.

“The orientation and training of volunteers will run for five (5) weeks using the TCMP program,” Jail Senior Supt. Felixberto Jagorin, Jr., Director for Inmates' Welfare and Development and head of BJMP' Therapeutic Community Modality Program (TCMP), said.

TCMP program assimilates self-help and mutual help learning treatment model to enable behavioral and attitudinal change of the individual involved in the use of illegal drugs especially those suffering from Substance Use Disorders (SUD). It involves a multi-phased outline of treatment that assesses, monitors and prepares the individual for his reintegration to the community.

“We believe that TCMP will be effective in the rehabilitation of illegal drugs users in the country and BJMP wants to share it with the community”, Barreto said.

Barretto also explicates that the implementation of the barangay-based rehab program involves different government agencies including the Department of Education – Alternative Learning System, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Department of Health, Department of Justice, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Labor and Employment, and the Philippine National Police.