STAND provides Treatment and Support to individuals and significant others gripped in the cycle of addiction, gender-based violence and trauma in the most vulnerable high-risk communities in Rural and Urban in the Western Cape, South Africa. STAND also plays a strong advocacy role for policy change in the field of Substance Use Disorders Both Nationally and Internationally STAND is a founding Member and actively involved in the World Federation Against Drugs Gender Working Group, addressing Gender Based Violence and barriers to treatment for women who use drugs