ATROP

Founded in 2010, ATROP is a non-profit association based in Kristiansand, Norway working on addiction, mental health, children & youth +1 more.

ATROP is a user-based and relative-based organisation in Norway offering a low-threshold and aftercare service for individuals and families who have experienced addiction, trauma, substance use and abuse, or who struggle with mental health. Based in Kristiansand, with branches and work-training cafés in Arendal and Songdalen, it combines professional and experiential competence through support conversations, group programmes, relationship and trauma groups, NADA ear acupuncture, peer support training, drop-in social meeting places and family activities. The organisation also works to raise awareness of stigmatising attitudes in society through lectures, education and media. It is politically and religiously neutral and is funded mainly through public grants, membership fees, donations and sponsorship.