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ASDO is running CPLI project in collaboration with both State & Central Govt (MSJEGOI)-Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.

Various studies reported that substance initiation begins at an early age due to vulnerabilities
perpetuated through acute poverty, social inequalities and other social reasons. Poly substance use
(consumption of more than one substance at a period) is common among adolescents.

Literature shows that individuals with Adverse Childhood Experience are more prone to addiction.
This includes physical & sexual use, emotional use, incarcerated relative, mother treated violently,
loss of a parent, physical and emotional neglect.

Children and adolescents living in the street, slums and homeless, become particularly vulnerable to
substance use in such high risk circumstances. Also, the rate of help seeking behavior is low due to
many factors like lack of family and community support compared to others. It is always better to
intervene before they initiate the substance use behavior.

Ensuring active participation of young people, they may be empowered to prevent and disseminate
information on substance use prevention. Also for this, there should be a strategy where young
people learn from each other and support themselves. For this purpose, under the scheme of
Targeted Intervention, MSJE, Govt of India has introduced Community Based Peer Led intervention
which would be appropriate for preventing and reducing the substance use among the young people.
Through peer led intervention the aim is to reach children and early adolescents who are:
·Vulnerable children/ adolescents at the age group 10 – 18 who are non users.