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Gerda van’t Hoff

Gerda van't Hoff

Criminologist, former Senior Strategic Adviser of the Correctional Institutions Agency at the Ministry of Justice and Security of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

“It takes a village to raise a child’. The ‘Peaceful neighborhood’ program is an example of how parents, schools, organizations and local residents can work together to create a safe neighborhood in which youth get the chance to grow up as healthy and responsible adults. In the Correctional Juvenile Institutions juveniles who committed a crime are separated from society as a punishment. However, to get back into society well and to prevent recidivism a punishment is not sufficient. In the institutions Gerda with her colleagues on restorative education: relations with parents, friends, family and may be victims, must be restored. It is important the juvenile can rejoin in society safely and gets the chance to grow up as a responsible citizen

This topic will be discussed during the session by Gerda van’t Hoff and Marijke van Genabeek “Juveniles in correctional facilities and beyond them – our shared responsibility” on September 17 at 10.10

Larysa Valova

National Coordinator of the Alliance Online Supervision Project. She is engaged in the training of supervisors, development and implementation of projects of supervisory support to specialists in harm reduction projects since 2010.

Do you know how to introduce remote prevention services for people at risk? And remote assistance to professionals? What are safe boxes and what do customers like about them? What challenges can you face in remote work and how to overcome them? And what results can be achieved?

On September 16 at 11.00 during her session “New approaches to online prevention and support of professionals: online supervision and remote prevention “Safe boxes” Larysa together with Kateryna Kovalchuk and Maryna Varban will answer these and more questions.

Marijke van Genabeek

Psychologist, Pedagogical Director of the Juvenile Correctional Institutions.

“It takes a village to raise a child’. The “Peaceful neighborhood” programme is an example of how parents, schools, organizations and local residents can work together to create a safe neighborhood in which youth get the chance to grow up as healthy and responsible adults. In the Correctional Juvenile Institutions juveniles who committed a crime are separated from society as a punishment. However, to get back into society well and to prevent recidivism a punishment is not sufficient. In the institutions Marijke with her colleagues is working on restorative education: relations with parents, friends, family and maybe victims, must be restored. It is important the juvenile can rejoin in society safely and gets the chance to grow up as a responsible citizen.

This topic will be discussed during the session by Marijke van Genabeek and Gerda van’t Hoff “Juveniles in correctional facilities and beyond them – our shared responsibility” on September 17 at 10.10

Piet Broenland

Piet Broenland is an experienced certified health care professional/aid provider with specialization in addiction & addictive behavior. After many years battling with his addiction, he stopped using mind and mood altering chemicals in 2008. His life changed after he was introduced to a self-help program. Together with an addiction treatment, based on the Minnesota model, he started his recovery and has clean ever since. He found a new way of life by adapting the tools of the treatment and following this self-help program on a daily basis and he is now a successful member of society and a happy free man.

Mr. Broenland pursued professional development by participating in colleges, studies and training programs. He has been working for more than 10 years with a lot of satisfaction and dedication in health care. He has worked with various clients, including people with mental disorders, autistic and deaf clients, psychiatric patients and with addicts in recovery. He has now bundled his experience and knowledge to help counseling those people who need help and want to change their life like he did.

Piet Broenland’s speech “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery” will take place on September 17 at 16:05.

Tetyana Bondar

Director of the NGO “Ukrainian institute for social research after Oleksandr Yaremenko”. She has experience in conducting research on important issues of children, adolescents and youth.

– On September 15 at 12:40 during the session “Experience of substance use (alcohol use; experience and frequency of smoking; marijuana)” participants will be able to listen to the information on alcohol use; experience and frequency of smoking; use of marijuana (“hemp”, “pot”) and hashish among minors in Ukraine.

The obtained data will be useful for adolescents, parents, teachers, members of the media, NGOs, all those who care about the problems of the younger generation and their health.

– On September 16, at 10.30, Tetyana Bondar and Nataliia Dvinskykh will make a presentation “Mental health of juveniles in prisons in Ukraine (preliminary results of the study)”. They will talk about the study of mental health problems among juveniles under custody in Ukraine, using international tools, explain the specifics of the study. In particular, the Strength and Difficult Questionnaire and MAYSI-2 tools for screening the mental and psychological problems of adolescents in prisons will be presented.

Valeriia Bondar

Specialist, trainer and mediator of the NGO “La Strada-Ukraine”, consultant of the National Children’s Hotline. She has experience in counseling children and adolescents on the National Children’s Hotline.

For more than four years, she has been involved in coaching, conducting events in schools for children and adolescents.

Valeriia also holds events on such topics as combating bullying, the rules of safe use of the Internet, preventing and combating violence against children, conflict-free communication skills and others. She has experience in coaching training for teenagers.

Everyone has the right to love another, or not to love, to agree with another’s opinion, or to disagree… But no one should humiliate, insult or offend another person. You can relate? You are 100% aware of bullying and you know a lot about it, but do you know how to recognize bullying and its consequences, as well as where to seek help. Valeriia will be glad to see you and talk about the important things in her session “Bullying in adolescence”.

Want to find answers to these questions and learn more? Let’s learn about this topic together and build a safe environment. On September 17 at 17:50 Valeriia will be waiting for you.

Richard Ives

In his work, Richard Ives has focused on children and young people; with an emphasis on prevention and education around undesirable behaviors, e.g. drinking, smoking, drug use, gambling, violence, etc.

His work includes:

– the development of educational resources (for example, videos and website content);

– designing and delivering training and professional development (for example, the 2015 Kyiv Conference ‘Effective approaches to working with adolescents with substance use experience’);

– project evaluation (for example, a five-year formative and summative evaluation of the Camden Children’s Fund (in London));

– and policy work (for example, as an expert member of the UK’s Gambling Commission’s “safer gambling” advisory group).

Richard has promoted and developed the lifeskills-based approach to school drug education both in the UK and in other countries. This has included a UNODC lifeskills-based education project working with local education and drugs professionals in the three Baltic countries.

A Project in Eastern Ukraine with the Council of Europe Pompidou Group (2007-08), ‘Lifeskills Education in Ukraine’, for which he was Lead Consultant, involved lifeskills education training for teachers and other educators using a “supported cascade” model where the local professionals were trained to deliver the training programme (designed by Mr. Ives), to other professionals.

Participants of the session offered by Richard will learn about the lifeskills approach to risk reduction and its applicability in educational and other settings. They will understand that there is a good theoretical basis for this approach and that it has been positively evaluated in a number of different contexts.

Participants will learn how young people need a range of life skills to reduce the risks they might experience, and how these skills are an essential complement to knowledge about risks, and how they help young people to take action in accordance with their beliefs and attitudes.

Participants will learn about practical ways of implementing the lifeskills approach with young people.

The “Lifeskills approach to Risk Reduction” session will start on September 16, 14:00

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