Dagupan’s ADAC earns silver award for performance

By December 23, 2018Headlines, News

JUST when the city government thought the harvest of civic awards for the year was over, the Dagupan City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) was informed that it earned the silver award in the Department of Interior and Local Government’s 1st National Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ADAC) Performance Award.

The city was among the 14 out of 1,715 provinces, cities and municipalities that garnered a rating of 85 to 99 points, which corresponded to an adjectival rating of ideal or high functionality.

Factors such as composition, financial capabilities, functionality, and accomplishments of ADACs in different levels of local government units were considered during the ADAC Performance Audit – National Calibration.

These include their financial and physical accomplishments, drug clearing operations and community-based rehabilitation programs.

One major initiative that clinched the national silver award was the city’s Sagip User Rehabilitation and Empowerment (SURE) program.

Through Mayor Belen T. Fernandez’s initiative, the SURE program was instituted as the city’s drug rehabilitation community-based program.

The program seeks to help surrenderers undergo drug-rehabilitation for free and earn the chance to start a new life by providing free moral and spiritual formations and helping them earn a clean living under the city’s livelihood programs.

The program was a continuous collaborative effort between PNP Dagupan, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), the City Health Office and religious groups in helping transform the lives of drug surrenderers.

As of September 2018, a total of 923 drug reformists already graduated from the program and is regularly monitored by the Dagupan CADAC.

“Our SURE program primarily wants to change the lifestyles of drug surrenderers. Now, we are also working out programs for our plea-bargaining grantees. We are working together with Mayor Fernandez, PNP Dagupan and the City Health Office in implementing these programs that not only help transform the lives of drug surrenderers, but also further eradicate illegal drugs in the city,” said SURE Program focal person Erjon Kevin Pangalinan.

The citation will be awarded during the National ADAC Performance Award to be held December 28 at the Tent City, Manila Hotel, (CIO/VdV)

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