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<DIV><SPAN class=900483616-03012004>Dear Avner,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=900483616-03012004>during the 90's we had many many OST
meetings with two different groups of youth in the inner city. One group were
what are referred to as 'street youth'. The other group were new immigrant youth
generally from war torn countries. In both cases, drugs/gangs/violence were
significant complex and apparently hopeless issues. We didn't have much success
engaging the youth in discussions until we started having OST meetings. We then
had a lot of success in keeping the youth talking with us, bringing their
concerns to us, and so on as a result of the OST meetings and the follow up we
did from those meetings.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=900483616-03012004></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=900483616-03012004>The professionals in the community were
involved in the OST meetings and often were really challenged by the youth to
change their way of doing this as professionals to help the youth.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=900483616-03012004></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=900483616-03012004>We used the OST to reach the youth in a
different way as a collective instead of one to one approaches. We did not use
the OST as a program to get youth off of drugs. However, from the OST meetings,
several youth made decisions to change their lifestyles, developing the will to
get themselves out of gangs and off of drugs and so on. We then linked the youth
up with professionals and services that could best help them with this specialty
area. We referred youth to the 12 step programs including Alcoholics Anonymous
and Narcotics Anonymous, both of which as you probably know have a good chance
of really being helpful with addictions. The OST meetings were 1. a gateway to
development of the will on the part of some youth to make changes and 2.
provided guidance to professionals and to the youth themselves of different ways
of support.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Avner
Haramati<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:57 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> coping with drug
use<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A small city in Israel (about 50,000 people)
is interested in the use of OS on the issue of coping with overuse of drugs,
especially among the youth. The local agencies and the educational system feel
quite helpless. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do any of you have an actual experience with this
kind of OS?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Avner Haramati</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerusalem</FONT></DIV>* *
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