new hope

New Hope (Foundation for Rehabilitation of Persons with Drug Abuse problems) offers help, both Residential (San Blasl/o Zebbug) and Non-Residential Programmes (Outreach, Floriana), to persons with drug abuse problems.

• Offers a professional and competent rehabilitation tailored on long-term experience in the drug rehabilitation, prevention and education fields.
• It focuses on present needs to prepare for the future.
• Addresses different human dimensions including the physical, spiritual, socio-legal, psychological and mental aspects.
• Seeks the true and primary needs of persons suffering from serious drug-related problems. It does this through active inter-dependent communication between all its services and clients.
• Reaches out to its client population through proactive and assertive outreach that includes street and home visits.
• Offers an intensive residential services to drug abusers coming off methadone.
• Prides itself of a diverse compliment of staff and volunteers who are professional, trained, supported, supervised and experienced.
• Believes that through rehabilitation - which is transitory, drug abusers could benefit from another opportunity to think reflect and learn for themselves.
• Provides different residential Centres, in idyllic settings, which offer a secure environment.

New Hope Support Services

Outreach, 82 Capuchins Street, Floriana
Is a community-based service that welcomes persons with serious drug-related problems (drug abusers, family members and significant others) and prepares drug abusers for further holistic and integrated rehabilitation.

Family
The Family service offers support to families of drug abusers to encourage their involvement in the rehabilitation process in order to promote favourable outcomes for all.

Harm Reduction Shelter

Offers help to homeless people with a drug abuse problem.
The Harm Reduction Shelter is the only shelter on the island offering help to homeless people who also have a drug problem. Here, clients find a homely, and caring environment, which gives them the stability and support that does not exist anywhere else in their lives. The Shelter was specifically intended to look and feel like a normal home, with the setup and décor being deliberately as non-clinical as possible.

An important aspect of the Shelter is that it is used as a drop-in centre for several hours every day. Clients who are not residing at the Shelter may still drop in for a snack or a shower.

They are offered a warm welcome and if interested, they will also receive counselling and support. Where possible clients are encouraged to attend a detox programme and our staff does its utmost to find them employment.

The Harm Reduction Shelter does not only help the clients who attend the programme, but is a concrete means of containing the criminal activity associated with rampant drug use and homelessness. The ripple effect, however, is much wider. It includes benefits to the overcrowded Court system, our over-stretched medical services, and our over-taxed unemployment benefits system. The Shelter, directly or indirectly, therefore benefits the whole of Maltese society.

The Prison Inmates Programme

Specifically caters for persons who are serving a prison sentence and have a drug abuse problem. Prisoners are granted leave to follow New Hope's approved rehabilitation programme out of prison.

The Above Programmes are structured as follows:

Residential Therapeutic Community

To offer drug abusers a safe and secure environment for 24 hours a day, in which they are assisted in their detoxification process and prepared for further rehabilitation.

Semi-Residential

To assist clients reintegrate into society in a more humane and gradual manner.

Re-Entry

To provide clients with a continual and realistic opportunity for further self-development while back in society.

Aftercare

To offer graduates of the different rehabilitation programmes a formal and informal support network that helps them maintain drug abstinence and achieve fulfilment in life.

Spirituality as a Backdrop within the New Hope Project

New Hope believes that many people with addictive problems tend to suffer from a lack of meaning in life, which is marked by a sense of futility. In this sense, New Hope views spirituality as the human dimension that seeks peace, goodness, values, meaning and love.
Group Work, Individual sessions, morning reflections and consultations with the spiritual director occur from the early stages of Outreach and Aftercare. These ongoing opportunities help in the consolidation and strengthening of spirituality as a backdrop within New Hope.
As a Church organisation, Caritas Malta believes that the New Hope programmes should also offer the possibility of the rediscovery of faith and belief. Spirituality as a backdrop aims also at the possibility of receiving the Good News of Salvation. This is achieved through the free participation in daily Holy Eucharist, liturgical and para-liturgical celebrations, prayer meetings and meditation and individual and group spiritual guidance.