{"id":3098,"date":"2021-08-20T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T10:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecett.eu\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2023-06-18T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T10:00:38","slug":"the-wab-network-an-initiative-created-by-and-for-addiction-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecett.eu\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"GP The WaB Network: an initiative created by and for addiction workers (BE)"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Am\u00e9lia Ramackers from WaB Network (Belgium)<\/span><\/h6>\n

The WaB Network brings together different types of addiction services every month to cooperate and compose care pathways for users with complex and chronic situations for whom there is no or no longer any alternative at local level.<\/p>\n

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Observation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Some addicted persons have great difficulty finding their place in the care system or wander from one service to another, in disorder and without progressing.<\/span><\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In 2003, Trempoline organised a training course based on G. De Leon’s “integrated systems approach” (ISA). The professionals who participated in the ISA training created the WaB Network in March 2007 in a bottom-up dynamic. The Walloon Region and Brussels-Capital grant an annual subsidy to WaB for the hiring of a network coordinator.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Theoretical support<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The WaB network refers to two theoretical models:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Georges De Leon’s Integrated System Approach (ISA), which identifies ten stages related to the process of change in an individual. ISA aims to build a network of care services that offers addicted people a continuous process of change with intermediate goals that converge towards the same end: full recovery.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Prochaska and DiClemente’s model, which identifies the stages of a process of change related to a person’s motivational state and which should be considered in a circular perspective with possible round trips. The intervention of a specific structure will depend on the motivational state presented by the subject, with each service helping its users to progress to the next stage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Target group<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Any drug dependent person who, due to his or her psychological, psychiatric, physical or administrative situation, or due to a referral from an institution, can no longer find answers to his or her need for help from the services in his or her region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    The services facing these deadlocks are also the beneficiaries of the WaB Network.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The WaB Network has 19 partner services ranging from low threshold to high threshold: street work, outpatient services, emergency accommodation, shelters, hospital detox services, therapeutic non-residential or residential communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Aims\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n