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Peace Inn: Every Human is Blessed with the Opportunity for Greatness
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Pease Inn….. A House of Peace and Tranquility for Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
Today we are speaking with Asia Ashraf from Pakistan, who has been serving in the field of drug addiction/mental health disorders treatment and rehabilitation for the last 17 years. Asia received her Masters in Applied Psychology from Punjab University, completed a one-year fellowship in Substance Abuse, Education, Treatment, Policy and Prevention from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA (2015-2016) as a Hubert H. Humphrey Alumna. She is a Global DDR trainer and national trainer UTC for the UNODC and Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Program and is internationally certified addiction professional (ICAP-II) from GCCE, Sri Lanka.
Asia is currently serving as Director Rehabilitation and Consultant Psychologist at Greenfield Hospital of Psychiatry where she provides counseling, relapse prevention training, capacity building of addiction professionals and orientation sessions for volunteers and mental health trainees. She is also a core team member of Gender Working Group by World Federation against Drugs (WFAD) to specifically address the illicit drug use among women, gender based violence and its correlation with illicit drug use and access to health care, treatment and recovery services for women.
Asia is a prevention leader; she launched the first Recovery Club - an open, free, safe space for persons in recovery at Islamabad, Pakistan. She recently founded a virtual platform with the name of Peace Inn, A House of Peace and Tranquility for the treatment and rehabilitation of Substance use and mental health disorders!
Asia was gracious enough to take time out of her busy schedule to share her story with us all while imparting a great deal of wisdom and lessons learned! It was an honor to speak with her and we hope you enjoy this episode.
Episode Links:
- https://peaceinn.pk/
- https://www.facebook.com/peaceinn.pk/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-ashraf-122478121/
- https://instagram.com/peaceinnbyasia?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
- https://colombo-plan.org/
- https://www.unodc.org/
- https://wfad.se/
- https://www.facebook.com/greenfieldhosp
- https://www.instagram.com/greenfieldhospital/
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