The Liga ng mga Barangay General Santos City Chapter in coordination with  DILG General Santos City and Bureau of Jail and Penology conducted a five-day training on Barangay-Based Rehabilitation Program (BBRP) for the Masa Masid Teams of the twenty six (26) barangays of General Santos City last March 1-5, 2017 (1st batch) and March 13-17, 2017 (2nd batch) in Davao City in relation to the implementation of the Masa Masid Program which mandates the organization of a Masa Masid Team in the barangays and delineated its roles and responsibilities in the a) Advocacy and Education Campaigns; b.) Information, Gathering and Reporting; and c.) Community based-Rehabilitation.

The main goal of the training is to enhance capacity and increase confidence of the participants to implement and sustain a responsive community-based rehabilitation program for drug “surrenderers” in their respective barangays by transferring the knowledge and skills on Therapeutic Community as an approach to drug rehabilitation.
The facilitators/resource persons to the said training were from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region XII Office.

The training was attended by 50 participants (1st batch) and 65 participants (2nd) batch and were provided with the following topics: Overview of the Therapeutic Community (TC) Approach, Vocational/Survival TC Focal Persons, Behavioral Component, Emotional/Psychological component and Spiritual /Intellectual Component.

The participants to the said event were the Punong Barangays, Action Officers designated by the Punong Barangay for the implementation of BBRP, Anti-illegal Drug Advocates and Representative of Inter-Faith Organization and the City UBAS technical working group. 
The activity was grace by J/SSUPT Felixberto Jagorin and J/CSUPT Deogracias Tapayan, CESE, the Deputy Chief for Administration, National Focal Person of the BJMP for the Masa Masid Program.