North West Inner City Training and Development Project

The North West Inner City Training and Development Project is designed to provide rehabilitation to stabilised drug & alcohol users through training and development. The participants are sourced from a local catchment area and are aged from eighteen upwards.

Vision: A vibrant community service that provides inclusive, innovative and sustainable programmes and services, improving individual and community physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing for all.

The Training and Development Project Steering Group was established in April 1999. The Steering Group applied to FAS, as it was then, for the provision of a special Community Employment Project to establish a training and development project for stabilised opiate users in Dublin’s North West Inner City. This became the North West Inner City Training & Development Project in March 2002 and the Community Employment Project started in July 2002.

Through training and development, participants progress through their rehabilitation and learn and develop new skills and improve their self-esteem and confidence. The NWICTDP is a special Community Employment Scheme to support active drug users to work towards an absence based recovery model.