Transcript Promovarea rezilienţei tanărului delincvent

EFeCT Conference 2012
23 March 2012
Paisley-Scotland
Promoting the Resilience of Youth
Delinquent - PRYD
Project manager: Mihaela Tomita
1.Finance
PRYD Project is financed by the Daphne European
Programme
European Commission
Directorate – General Justice, freedom and security
Period of implementation
January 2011 – January 2013
2.APPLICANT AND PARTNERS
The applicant of PRYD project is:
The West University of Timisoara through CICOP - THE RESEARCH
CENTER FOR CHILD – PARENT INTERACTION
CICOP is a research unit of West University in Timisoara set up within the
Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, the Department of Social Work
The mission of CICOP is to explore the characteristics of child and parent
(adult) interaction, aiming to improve the quality of services for children
and families in Romania, and to develop services in the medical-psychosocial field in Romania.
2.PARTNERS
• OOBC Nieuwe Vaart and the University of Ghent.
The OOBC Nieuwe Vaart is a private organization, in
which special education and treatment is provided for
children and youth with EBD (emotional and
behavioural disorders). The OOBC Nieuwe Vaart is a
national training site for LSCI (Life Space Crisis
Intervention), a conflict management model to
communicate with children and youth in conflict or
crisis.
2.PARTNERS
• The Re-education Centre in Buzias
Has had over the last years, a large number of
measures that were taken for the improvement of
living conditions in the Re-education Centres in
Romania. The capacity of the centre is for 120 minors
in four house-type buildings which have all the
necessary modern facilities. The aim of all activities
which are carried on is to give the minors the skills
which are necessary for their social reinsertion.
2.PARTNERS
• The Society for Children and Parents - SCOP Timisoara
Founded in 1996. SCOP's mission is the improvement of life
quality for children, women and family. SCOP's main activity
areas are: the support offered to HIV/AIDS infected young
people in the Effata Day Care Centre for social and
professional integration; child abuse, neglect and
abandonment prevention programmes; Community centre
offering services to young children coming from vulnerable
families; information campaigns for students, teachers and
parents about abuse prevention and the promotion of
children's rights.
4. Theoretical background
• Resilience of children or youngsters can guarantee the
success of individuals in life, it is the individual's ability to
meet challenges and to continue his positive evolution, wellintegrated into society.
• Resilience has been studied in connection with the traumatic
experiences of life, events that are unfavourable for a healthy
development of the person and which may lead to posttraumatic stress disorders, or a variety of psychopathological
manifestations among which are depression, alcoholism,
generally addictive behaviours, permanent sadness.
5. Project’s goal
• The development of a model of positive
intervention for delinquent adolescents, based
on supporting their resilience which fosters a
better inclusion into the society.
PRYD is an intervention and research project
PRYD offers an innovative perspective of
working with delinquent adolescents
6. Main Objectives
• To set-up a model of positive approach and support for
delinquent adolescents resident in specialized institutions, in
order to improve their resilience;
• To promote a European Network of interested units in the
field;
• To strengthen the partnership among partners in the project;
• To open the opportunities for future cooperation which can
bring added values and a model of best practices replicable
among different educational or mental health institutions for
children and adolescents.
7. Target group
• The direct beneficiaries of the project are approximately
50 minors with criminal sanctions placed into the
Reeducation Centre in Buzias;
• The indirect beneficiaries are the 8 specialists in the
Reeducation Centre in Buzias as well as 10 other
specialists from outside the Centre, who are directly
working with the juvenile offenders;
• Other indirect beneficiaries are the 14 specialists
involved in the project who will benefit of training and
supervision with LSCI method and also the professionals
who will create a network at European level based on the
topic of Delinquent and Violent Adolescents.
8. Activities
• the first conference with all the partners to launch the
project PRYD;
• the training ‘Life space crisis intervention' LSCI and
purchasing materials for trainees for 32 specialists;
• Regular assessment of the adolescents involved in the
project with standard tools and creating a focus group
to complete the qualitative research;
8. Activities
• Two editions of SPECTO – International Conferences with the
theme of:
- crime prevention
- quasi coercive treatment
- increasing the resilience of juvenile delinquents;
• Weekly direct activities with children
• 4 camps with groups of 12 children from Buzias and other 12
as a control group from Timisoara high schools
• Different cultural and sports competitions with the delinquent
adolescents;
8. Activities
• Purchasing sports equipment and musical instruments
for the adolescents in the Reeducation Center Buzias;
• Creating a radio station for the children inside the
Reeducation Center;
• LSCI supervision provided by Belgian partner
9. Methods of delinquent
adolescents data collection
• From the files of every teenager, the following data was taken:
age, gender, overall intelligence, verbal intelligence.
• Questionnaires: YSR (youth self report), SDQ (strengths and
difficulties questionnaire), TRF (Questionnaire for the teachers
on school, behavioral and emotional problems of the child)
• Questionnaires: Child and Youth Resilience Measure - CYRM
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10. Methods of intervention
• Life space crisis intervention (LSCI), a therapeutic and verbal
strategy based on cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic and
developmental theories, used to intervene when the child is in
crisis;
• Small group activities, held with 6-7 adolescents, under the
supervision of two experts who are working with them.
Aims: - improving communication between adolescents and with adults
-
facilitating positive relationships in group
stimulating creativity
stimulating the expression of feelings
achieving a good social outcome.
11.LSCI implementation
• From the beginning of PRYD Project in the Buzias Reeducation
Center, there have been made a number of approximatelys 20 LSCI
• It was observed that after an LSCI:
- the behavior of the children was modiffied when they return in their
group
- the comunication was very much improved
- The children attitude regarding the staff member who performed the
LSCI becomes better
- it apears to create a bound between the staff member and the child;
12. Other activities with children
• Creating, printing and disseminating of brochures of the
Reeducation Center Buzias, which will provide a
description of relevant aspects regarding activities with
children.
Purpose of this activity
- to improve communication between adolescents and with adults,
- facilitating positive relationships in group
- stimulating creativity
- solving interpersonal problems effectively
- realistic anticipation of the consequences of their own actions
- expressing optimism about personal actions.
13. Conclusions
• Resilience can be supported by grouping adolescents so as to
promote inclusion, cooperation, shared responsibility and a
sense of community;
• Through all these activities, and through teaching, modeling,
guidance, and building appropriate skills, the reeducation
centre can provide a very suportive context so that young
people can learn and use appropriate behaviors, instead of
aggressive and violent ones.
14. Dissemination
• Periodic publication of the Journal "Today's children
are tomorrow's parents';
• Website to promote PRYD project;
• Publishing a manual of best practices in working with
juvenile delinquents;
• Creating a DVD on promoting the resilience of
juvenile delinquents;
15. Dissemination
Presenting the PRYD project activities in professional
meetings and conferences
16. Sustainability
• Setting an efficient European Network in the field that
will continue its cooperation also after the
implementation of the project;
• once included in the program of the reeducation
center, this method of working with delinquent
adolescents – especially LSCI method, will become
part of the activities with delinquent adolescents in
these types of institutions in Romania
Thank you for your
attention!