Other Key Project Personnel:
1) Curt Chanda, Field Director of SHARE International
SHARE International has been under the direction of Mr. Curt Chanda since 1995 and has provided humanitarian aid, educational support, medical relief and technical assistance to the city of Kyzylorda and more currently to the republic at large. They provide grants for teachers and students to study in the U.S. and have provided educators and humanitarian workers from the U.S. to the Republic of Kazakhstan for short exchanges and for long term placement. He also has relationship to an alcohol and drug abuse recovery program in Kyzylorda.
2) Ken Urban, Kazakhstan Representative of Youth With a Mission
Ken has supported micro-enterprise and light industrial economic development opportunities in Kazakhstan for nearly 10 years. He continues to support volunteers in short and long term commitments to assist the village people in becoming financially self-sustaining. He also has cultivated relationship with a faith-based substance abuse treatment program in the Almaty region.
Project Resources:
Budget Provisions for the Four Phases of the Project
1) $1350 - Identification of Metropolitan and Rural programs
We will gather data on the current operation of alcohol and substance abuse rehabilitation in the metropolitan area and surrounding rural villages and in the smaller city of Kyzylorda in central Kazakhstan. The number of residents, length of typical treatment and kinds of treatment modalities and such information will be necessary to the design of the study. Both faith-based and medical-only models will be solicited for participation in this research project. Key personnel will be committed to the completion of this project for one year. Funds in this phase will be used for staff time and materials for communications and for setting up the research model.
2) $2850 - Data Collection by Distance
Each treatment program will provide one research assistant who may also serve already in other capacities, such as group facilitator. A common spreadsheet will be used across all languages and facilities for consistency in data collection and recording. These can be emailed to the project director for data analysis in an efficient manner, conserving time and financial expense. Funds in this phase will be used for extra duties by the research assistants and staff and materials for communications.
3) $9750 - Data Collection Onsite
Actual onsite observation and interviews will validate and personalize the statistical reports. Some subjective data will be gathered only by site visits.
This level of relationship between participating programs and with the sponsoring organization is important to the sustainable benefits of the projects findings as best practices are shared, adopted by others and tested. While travel and per diem expenses are a large component of this project, such exchanges promote the most long-lasting goodwill and ongoing relationship possibilities for international relationship. Funds in this phase will be used for travel and per diem expense for the project directors and staff for communications. Site visits will be conducted in the pre-test and post-test phases of the research project, Phases One and Four.
4) $1050 - Sustainable Collaboration of Successful Programs
Some funds will be provided for ongoing cross-training and sharing of best practices. It is our vision that the most effective programs in substance abuse rehabilitation will be shared broadly, not only in Kazakhstan but in the Central Asian region at large. Many of these neighboring nations share common cultural and political histories that give them a natural relationship as they emerge as free and independent republics. Funds in this phase will cover the costs of staff and materials for communication between the participating programs and between these programs and the project directors.
Total: $15,000
Partner Organizations:
Arvada Sister-Cities International
SHARE International
Arvada Sister-Cities International
Organization's Mission: People to People Diplomacy
To build mutually beneficial relations with this former Soviet republic which is in the heart of Central Asia is important since it is the most moderate of Muslim nations in the region.
Success Factors: Our previous exchanges with the people of Kyzylorda in particular ensure that we can succeed in this study and bring about real change and help address these problems of substance abuse.
Organization's Programs: Since 1999, we have conducted 9 international exchanges featuring a variety of educational, cultural and economic development projects. Our first project involved drug and alcohol refusal skills training for school in Kyzylorda and a dialog with psychologists wishing to know about successful treatment programs for alcoholism. We have provided the FEMA Citizen Emergency Response Teams program to professionals and citizens there and more recently have facilitated the shipment of a million dollars worth of medical supplies and equipment to this region of Kazahstan.
Organizational Awards and Honors: Arvada Sister Cities has been awarded three small grants to help sustain the above projects and the city of Arvada has received an award for these projects from the International City/County Management Association.
Organization's Main Address: Arvada Sister Cities International, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO 80002
http://www.arvada.org (see sister cities program)
Organization's Staff Numbers:
Employees (full and part-time): 0
Volunteers: 20
Organization's Year Founded: 1992
Is this organization a 501c3? Yes
Organization's Executive Managers: Edna Gordon, President, Sonia Marschner, Vice-President, Maria Tibbets,Secretary, Ed Bentzen, Treasurer
SHARE International - Partner Organizational Information
Organization's Name: SHARE International
Organization's Mission: Strategic Humanitarian Aid & Resource Exchange
SHARE provides economic, educational, medical, developmental and environmental assistance and humanitarian aid to the people of Central Asia adjusting to free market economies.
Success Factors
: Since people are every nation’s most valuable resource, we invest in people. Our mission is to establish synergistic relationships under which people from various cultures and backgrounds can mutually benefit from each other.
Organization's Programs
:
Education and Resource Exchange – donated the largest English library in the nation
Relief and Development – projects to aid orphanages and low income families
Environmental Research and Development – Lead poisoning reduction in children
Organizational Awards and Honors
:
SHARE has received grants from corporations and from U.S. and Kazakhstani government agencies. Its work in establishing Kazakhstan’s National Program for Reduction of Lead Poisoning received acclaim and official acknowledgement in Washington DC.
Organization's Main Address:
SHARE International, 10201 W. 43rd Avenue, Suite 201, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 U.S.A.
Organization's Staff Numbers:
Employees (full and part-time): 3
Volunteers: 20
Organization's Year Founded: 1993
Is this organization a 501c3? Yes
Organization's Executive Managers:
Curt R. Chanda, Roger L. Olsen, James O. Rasmuson, Andrey A. Korchevsky, Dalmon M. Larson, Richard N. Chanda, C. Ross Westley, Daniel R. Hall, Brian L. Wall
