Drobs-Mobil rolls to Beckum and Neubeckum

The mobile drug counselling service is intended to provide local people with advice and support and offer those affected low-threshold help (outreach help). Whether general information and advice on drug use and addiction, counselling for relatives, referral to help and services (e.g. withdrawal clinics, therapy facilities, substitution) or free syringe exchange and condom distribution: in the "Drobs-Mobil", interested parties can take advantage of the same services as in the counselling centre in Ahlen, free of charge, without an appointment and - if desired - anonymously. This not only provides informal information and counselling on site. It also shortens the distances for those who already take advantage of the services offered by the counselling centre in Ahlen.

"We have been providing mobile counselling since the end of the 1990s. I'm not aware of any comparable offer," explained Managing Director Michael Böckendorff at the press event in Beckum.

In future, the Drobs-Mobil will alternate between Hindenburgplatz in Beckum (near the homeless shelter) and Gottfried-Polysius-Straße in Neubeckum (opposite the Neubeckum leisure centre) on Tuesdays. Reliability and stability are particularly important for most people who contact the working group. This is why there are not only fixed times, but also constant carers at the locations.

Drobs-Mobil on site
The mobile now stops every Tuesday:
- from 13:00 to 14:30 in front of the Freizeithaus Neubeckum
- and from 15:00 to 16:30 in the Hindenburg car park in Beckum.

- without an appointment
- free of charge
- anonymous

The counsellors are bound to confidentiality and have a right to refuse to testify.

Beckum is neither an island nor particularly conspicuous in terms of drug use. However, addiction and drugs are also present here. For example, the number of cases of child endangerment in the context of youth welfare services is increasing because parents who use drugs are unable to fulfil their duty of care, or can only do so to a limited extent. Cannabis seems to be becoming the norm in many places, even though drug prevention plays an important role in schools. Drug use in public spaces is increasingly being practised openly and trafficked.