ABOUT THE PROJECT
This project is a psychosocial support, guidance, and skills-based empowerment initiative developed to support the recovery processes of adult individuals struggling with substance addiction and their families. The project approaches addiction not only as an individual issue, but as a multidimensional health and social integration challenge that also affects families and society.
During the addiction process, individuals often face feelings such as guilt, shame, exclusion, and loneliness, while families may unintentionally make the process even more difficult due to helplessness, burnout, and ineffective or misguided interventions. This project aims to ensure that both individuals with addiction and their families have access to accurate information, safe guidance, and sustainable support mechanisms.
Project Objective
The main aim of the project is to support the recovery journey of adult individuals living with substance addiction, strengthen their life skills, and enable them to re-engage actively in social life. At the same time, it seeks to equip families with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the addiction process correctly, communicate in a healthy way, and create a supportive environment.
In this context, the project approaches addiction not as a lack of willpower, but as a health issue with scientific and psychosocial dimensions, offering an empowering and inclusive perspective rather than a stigmatizing one.
Target group
The project’s primary target group consists of adult individuals who are struggling with substance addiction. The secondary target group includes these individuals’ family members, caregivers, and close social circles. In addition, the project outputs have been designed to serve as practical guidance for social workers, educators, civil society organizations, and other professionals working in the field.
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The project combines three core approaches: psychosocial support, guidance, and skills development. Under the psychosocial support component, the aim is to strengthen individuals’ emotional regulation, self-esteem, relapse awareness, and daily life routines. The guidance component provides practical content for both individuals and families on effective communication, setting boundaries, crisis management, and access to support mechanisms.
The skills development approach is delivered through handicrafts and creative production workshops. It aims to help participants express themselves through making, develop focus and patience, and, in the long term, increase their employability.
Project Activities
The training and guidance videos prepared within the scope of the project are structured separately for individuals living with addiction and for their families. These videos cover topics ranging from the scientific foundations of addiction to emotion regulation, building daily life routines, developing job and vocational skills, family communication, and crisis management.
In addition, handicraft workshops—such as ceramics, painting, prayer bead stringing, calligraphy, and marbling (Ebru)—enable participants to take an active role in the production process. These workshops are not treated merely as a hobby activity, but as a tool that supports recovery, builds self-confidence, and strengthens social bonds.
Expected Impact and Sustainability
By the end of the project, it is expected that participating individuals will have increased awareness of their addiction processes, strengthened emotional and crisis management skills, and be able to maintain their lives in a more structured and productive way. Families, in turn, are expected to develop a supportive and informed approach instead of adopting blaming and controlling attitudes.
The digital content and training materials produced will remain accessible after the project period ends, ensuring that the project outputs create long-term and sustainable impact.