Twenty Resource Centres from all regions are members of TREATNET . They have been identified through asystematic selection process aimed at assesing their potential to deliver and disseminate a variety of effective treatment and rehabilitation interventions and become leaders in treatment and rehabilitation in their respective regions.

Resource Centres are drug treatment and rehabilitation services providers, both Governmental and/or Non-Governmental that have manifested their willinghness to be part of the network and have a commitment to continuous improvement of quality of drug treatment services. Selected Resource Centres have either local, regional or international recognition as leaders in drug treatment and rehabilitation service provision and can act as regional leaders for the dissemination of best practices.Sustainability is also aconditioneither because they have developed a comprehensive financialsystem or they receive continuous support from goverment or private donors.

For a period of two years, the project will support resource centres in exchanging knowledge and experiencesin order to identify best practices and prepare four documents based on state of the artand fiel-based experience on drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation. Each document will focus on a priority topic selected for this purpose on the basis of current drug treatment challenges and global needs.

The four priority topics are:

	Community based treatment
	Drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation in prison settings
	The role of drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation in HIV/AIDS prevention and care
	Sustainable livelihoods for rehabilitation and reintegration.

Resource centres were chosen to participate in one of the working groupsbased on their experience on the topics or their wish to improve knowledge and experience on them.

 

Participating resource centres are:

 

Australia	Egypt	Kazakhastan	Spain
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc.	General Secretariat of Mental Health	National Research and Clinical Centre on Medical and Social Problems of Drug Abuse	Proyecto Hombre
Brazil	Germany	Kenya	Sweden
Psychosocial Attention Center for Alcohol and Other Drugs	Mudra	Drug Rehabilitaion Unit, Mathari Hospital	Maria Ungdom
Canada	India	Mexico	United Kingdom
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)	TT Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation	Centros de Integración Juvenil A.C.	Cranstoun Drug Services
China	Indonesia	Nigeria	U.S.A.
Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre	RS Ketergantungan Obat	Neuropsychiatric Hospital Aro	Fayette Companies
Colombia	Iran	Russia	U.S.A.
CARISMA, Centre for Attention and Integral Rehabilitation of Mental Health	Iranian National Prison Organization	Regional Research Center of Narcology and Psychopharmacology affiliated to St. Petersburg Pavlov State Medical University	Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, Inc.

Resource Centres Geographical Distribution