conference agenda_afew-ukraine_10.10.2015

DRAFT CONFERENCE AGENDA

International Scientific and Practical Conference

“Effective approaches to working with adolescents with substance use experience”

18-20 November 2015

Kyiv (Ukraine), Hotel Rus

Objective: improving the system of working with adolescents with substance use experience at the regional and national levels, identifying the most effective approaches to provide

preventive, social, psychological and correctional services.

Tasks:

to present innovative methods and approaches in working with the

adolescents with substance use experience;

to present the findings and achievements of the project “Bridging the

Gaps: Health and Rights for Key Populations” that has been

implemented since 2011 by the International Charitable Foundation

“AIDS Foundation East-West” (AFEW-Ukraine) “ with the financial

support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands;

to facilitate the exchange of experience and establishing partnerships

between professionals working in the field of providing assistance to

the adolescents with substance use experience;

to actualize the need to create/improve standards on providing social

services, as well as certification of specialists and programmes in

respect to the target group;

to present international experience on working with underage juvenile

offenders and discuss prospects for the development and

implementation of juvenile justice;

to assist in ensuring human rights of the most-at-risk adolescents.

The Programme of the Conference will cover the following key directions of

work with most-at-risk young people with a special focus on adolescents

with substance use experience:

1. Involving families in working with their children who had/have substance

use experience.

2. Restorative justice: international experience and prospects of its

implementation in Ukraine.

3. Methods of working with adolescents in juvenile detention and

correctional facilities.

4. Effective communication of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to

attract new clients and search for resources to implement project

activities.

5. Ensuring the human rights of minors.

6. Distance learning forms for education of specialists.

7. Providing services to internally displaced adolescents and their families:

reducing risk factors in the development of risky behavior.

8. Psycho-correctional and rehabilitation centers for adolescents with

substance use experience.

9. Prevention activities in educational establishments.

10. Other related issues (TBD).

https://hotelrus.phnr.com/


Day 1 – 18 November 2015

Time Activity, topic, speakers and moderators

08:00 – 11:00 Registration of participants, check-in, Coffee-break

11:00 – 13:00 Official Conference Opening.

Welcoming speeches:

Welcoming speech from Elena Voskresenskaya, Executive Director International Charitable Foundation “AIDS Foundation East-West” (AFEW-

Ukraine) (project “Bridging the Gaps: Health and Rights for Key Populations”, on-line platform “Knowledge Center”)

TBD Welcoming speech from the Dutch partners (Anke Van Dam/ Embassy)

TBD Welcoming speech from the representatives of the relevant ministries of Ukraine (Ministry of Social Policy, Ministry of Education, Ministry

of Health)

TBD Welcoming speech from the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine

Welcoming speech from the Dzysiak Oleh Petrovych, the Acting Chairman of the State Service of Ukraine on Drug Control

TBD Introductory presentation “The dynamics of substance abuse prevalence among children and adolescents (according to the results of the

international surveys HBSC, ESPAD)” the Ukrainian Institute of Social Research named after O.Yaremenko

Speeches of project clients

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Parallel Session №1.1.

Effective communication of the NGOs

(workshop/presentation of the manual):

Maryna Hovorukhina +

Ukrainian experts TBD

Parallel Session №1.2.

Effective methods of working with adolescents in juvenile

detention and correctional facilities:

Experience of the Netherlands: juvenile justice

system, methods of work “Brains4use”, Pr. Loek

Dijkman, Pr. Marijke van Genabeek, Gerda van 't Hoff

“Steps” – HealthRight International

The All-Ukrainian public centre “VOLUNTEER”

AFEW -Ukraine – Family Conferences

Experience of the Melitopol juvenile correctional

facility for girls

Experience of working in detention facilities

(KCSSFCY)

Parallel Session №1.3

Solution focused approaches in working with

vulnerable adolescents:

Jacek Szczepkowski and Artur

Lewinski

Arseniy Pavlovsky

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee-break

16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Session №1.1.

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18:00 – 20:00 Welcome dinner



Time Activity, topic, speakers and moderators Весь день Interactive area 9:30 – 11:00 Summary of the previous day findings.

Announcement of the upcoming sessions of the day.

Presentations of the plenary session:

“Spread of new psychoactive substances among young people” Pliasetskyi Oleksandr Vitaliiovych, the Head of Organizational and Personnel work

of the State Service of Ukraine on Drug Control

“Extension of the harm reduction services for adolescent drug users: international experience and Ukrainian realities”, Purick Olena Petrivna ICF

“International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine”

Challenges in changing drug scene and substance abuse among young people: Discussion

Anastasiya Shebardina, ICF “AIDS Foundation East-West” (AFEW-Ukraine) – presentation of the research

Presentation of the educational cartoon on Family Conference Method

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee-break 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Session №2.1.

Adaptation of harm reduction and outreach work for

adolescents with substance use experience:

“Harm reduction programmes for adolescents

with substance use experience as an effective

intervention for prevention of negative

consequences” – Purick Olena Petrivna,

Zharuk Iryna Vasylivna, ICF “International

HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine”

RESPOND – Street Smart

“ Introducing the results of the research

among adolescents injecting drug users and

other young drug users by using the

intervention of regional assessment with

meaningful involvement” – Safonkin Petro

Vasylovych / Skliarenko Evgeniy

Mykolaiovych, All-Ukrainian Charitable


TBD Features of working with IDP young people

(interventions for internally displaced persons):

Kyiv city Center of Social Services for Families,

Children and Youth – Liubov Loriashvili

The Social Initiative “Vostok-SOS” (East-SOS)

– Svitlana Tarabanova TBD

Mariupol city Center of Social Services for

Families, Children and Youth (Uliana

Tokareva) – Mediation Center TBD

Techniques for prevention and countering of

bullying children and adolescents in school

(Arseniy Pavlovsky)

Dnipropetrovsk Regional Charitable Christian

Fund “Caritas-Sicheslav”


Psycho-correctional and rehabilitation

programmes for adolescents:

CF “New Family” (Chernivtsi)

TBD Shapovalov Andrii

Maksymovych, Dnipropetrovsk,

Head of Rhabilitation

Department at "Dnepropetrovsk

Regional Drug Dispensary"

Experience of Poland – Jacek

Szczepkowski and Artur

Lewinski

TBD AN groups and Nar-

Anon Family Groups for co-

dependant parents


Organization "CONVICTUS UKRAINE"

Kyiv city Center of Social Services for Families,

Children and Youth – Experience of working

with advisers on chemical dependences.

OCF “Way Home”

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch, visiting Interactive area 15:00 – 16:00 Parallel Session №2.4.

Involving families in working with adolescents with

substance use experience:

Family Group Conferences (Arseniy Pavlovsky)

Presenting experience within the project

“Bridging the Gaps: Health and Rights for Key

Populations”, AFEW-Ukraine

Experience of the Netherlands: effective

methods on working with parents – Pr.

Marijke van Genabeek

Health Right – “Steps” for parents

Joint summer camps for families with children

(All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with

HIV)

Support of families with adolescents with

substance use experience (All-Ukrainian

Network of People Living with HIV)


Prevention activities in educational establishments:

Yankovets Victoria Viktorivna, The All-

Ukrainian public centre “VOLUNTEER” (Kyiv)

Mot Denys Yuriiovych, Charitable

Organization “All-Ukrainian Charitable

Foundation Phoenix”

Involvement of volunteers from educational

institutions (CF "Return to Life", Kirovograd)

TBD The Join In-Circuit on AIDS, Love and

Sexuality, GIZ

All- Ukrainian National Narcological

Association - Vievsky Anatoliy – Analysis of

substance abuse in the class

Forum Theatre - School of peers

TBD Experience of Austria


Innovative approaches: counseling

techniques:

“The use of techniques of

provocative psychotherapy and

psychological Aikido in

counseling and education of

adolescents” – Turekhanov

Yagdar Moiseevich, Public

Fund “AIDS Foundation East-

West in Kazakhstan”

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee-break 16:30 – 17:30 Parallel Session №2.4.

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Presentation of the current researches

by the Ukrainian Institute of Social

Research named after O.Yaremenko

18:00 – 19:00 Dinner



Time Activity, topic, speakers and moderators 9:30 Summary of the previous day findings.

Announcement of the upcoming sessions of the day.

Presentations of the plenary session:

Pechonchik Tatiana Illarionovna, Chairperson of the Board, Information Center for Human Rights

TBD Ministry of Justice

TBD Probation service

TBD Criminal Police for Minors

The Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights Mykola Kuleba

TBD Ministry of Health

11:00 Coffee-break 11:30 Parallel Session №3.1.

Ensuring the human rights of minors:

Presentation of the training course

“Protection and ensuring the rights of

most-at-risk children and youth”.

Presentation of the educational course

manuals – N. Novyk, Project manager,

Information Center for Human Rights

Lawyers among participants of the

training course - analysis of the

possibilities of treatment for unattended

minors (e.g. ARV therapy).

The Commissioner of the President of

Ukraine for Children's Rights Mykola

Kuleba


TBD Probation System: discussion forum

Izmail city Center of Social Services for

Families, Children and Youth

Institute of APR (Anastasia Grishyna)

Reforming the system (Victoria

Sanovska)

Visitor center (Ministry of Social Policy)


TBD Juvenile justice:

TBD Ministry of Justice

Roman Koval, President of the of the

Peace and Common Ground Centre

TBD Anatolii Volyk

TBD Arseniy Pavlovsky

13:30 Lunch 14:30 Official Conference Closing

TBD Handing the Resolution of the Conference to the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights Mykola Kuleba 15:30 Coffee-break

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