How we can help
Areas of work and services offered
Because of our previous knowledge and experience in the field of Race-Equality, our work on ‘race’
and drugs also has general application elsewhere. It embraces the following areas:
Researching, planning, developing and facilitating infra-, intra-and inter- organisational structures, policies, processes and practices, including participative strategies for those involved;
Community engagement and local democratisation in service planning and provision;
Strategic human resource development and equalities in the public sector;
New political, cultural and organisational configurations in public and civil sectors and race equality development;
These interventions come through a number of discrete services, which we can offer in the areas of:
The focus of work centres largely, but not only on UK. It is international in scope
Methods of Working
Our work, though focused on UK, also involves international work.
We are a small, independent organisation seeking to influence policy, procedure and practice in the drugs field in order to bring about race equality based change. It was felt from the outset that for race equality to become an integral part of drug services it would need to become a core part of the work not simply of individual agencies but also of networks operating within the field. This promised also to be a more effective and economic method for dissemination.
Thus, when following our initial investigations (1995-96), the opportunity arose because of previous links of integrating race-equality within the work-programme of T3E
; we used that opportunity for our subsequent work to become a regular but autonomous part of T3E’s funding applications to the European Commission (1996-2003).
Recognition of this work within the EC and across other EU countries led to requests for collaboration, consultancy and partnerships with other EU networks in the drugs field, notably ERIT
, FESAT
, Sastipen
and currently EFDP
and CONNECTIONS
.
Simultaneously, our work with individual agencies and government organisations in UK continues.
‘Race’ designates a social construct and not a natural given. We use it because it allows us to discuss racism.
Toxicomanie: Europe-Èchanges-Ètudes (T3E), a pan-EU network for practitioners and institutions working in the field of drug harm and drug demand reduction, which fosters exchanges of good practice through peer-training seminars, summer universities, and cross-border placement schemes, as well as action research and evaluation by harnessing the synergy of its members.
Réseau Europáen des Intervenants en Toxicomanie, (network at macro-policy level)
European Federation of Drug Telephone Helplines
Pan-EU network for HIVAIDS and Drug Prevention amongst the Gipsy Communities
European Federation on Drug Policy
Pan-EU Prison Drug Workers' Network (formerly ENDIPP)
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