The purpose of the project was to develop abilities for the personnel of social and health care and education sectors in the implementation and marketing of family and drug work. Also, the purpose was to increase the understanding of future social and health care workers about the mutual cultural heritage and people’s everyday coping mechanisms in diff erent environments. Th e intention was to develop abilities for the personnel of the Oulu Deaconess Institute and the A-Guild to work with the development of international family and drug work and, at the same time, to give some students the opportunity to familiarise themselves with work in various environments. Th e purpose was also to develop the work against drug use based on civic activities together with the villages of Karelia. Th e intention was to create structures during the project that enable the actualisation of a civic society, action models preventing the alcohol and drug use of young people and a treatment model based on the ideology of the A-Guild for alcohol/ drug abusers and their families. Th e operation would start as a pilot cooperation with the villages of Kalevala and Juškozero and the Oulu A-Guild. Later on, the intention was to expand cooperation to the entire Karelia region, if the work implemented during the project proved functional.