Participants of this Online Conference
Read more about our team members from Germany, France, Spain and Romania ...
Pradet Agnès (France, Moderator)
I am since nearly two years a project manager of the French Forum for Urban Safety, a branch of the European Forum for Urban Safety. Working with the 130 French cities members of the network, this NGO is well sensitized for activities dealing with school bullying and violence prevention, initiated or followed by cities in a cooperative way. My knowledge about ICT and the use of new tools of communication like e.g Internet goes back on on a lot of interest and enthusiasm ...
I will be the moderator of this conference, so please do not hesitate to contact me !
E-mail: pradet@urbansecurity.org
website : www.fesu.org
Boeckmann Christine (Germany)
I am a trainer for conflict resolution and civil society organising in a Non Governmental Organisation "Miteinander". Our main activities concerning school violence are : trainings with teachers, training with pupils, counselling of teachers and school staff.
Main topics in my training in workshops are conflict resolution and violence prevention as well as intercultural trainingd and civic education. Our experience with local authorities differ from case to case.
boeckmann.gs@miteinander-ev.de
Juan Calmaestra (Espana)
Currently starting his doctoral studies and he works in a project on social inclusion of young people.
Francisco Cordoba (ESP)
Doctoral researcher funded by Plan Nacional de Formación del
Profesorado Universitario in the Department of Psichology.
Ferronni Fabio (Livorno, Italy)
I deal with urban safety policies and citizenship policies. I am a member of FISU (Italian Forum for Urban Safety) and I am charged with this topics by my administration.
My office deals with all the interventions on urabn safety which are a competence of the city hall of Livorno (such as bullying at school and out of school, education to civic behaviour...)
Finger Linda ( Australia, SELF Center)
Linda Finger is a PhD Candidate and work with Roberto Parada as a team with the University of Western Sydney SELF Research Centre exploring issues solely on school bullying. Roberto began his PhD in 2000 with a longitudinal research design and bullying intervention for secondary schools, and Linda became involved with this project in 2002 (forming the basis for her Honours thesis). Since then, they have extended their work from secondary school bullying issues to primary schools and are currently working on a bullying intervention for the upper primary ages. For more information regarding their work please refer to their co-authored chapter entitled ‘In the Looking Glass: A Reciprocal Effects Model Elucidating the Complex Nature of Bullying, Psychological Determinants and the Central Role of Self’ (Marsh, Parada, Craven and Finger, 2004) in the book ‘Bullying, Implications for the classroom: What Does the Research Say?’ by Sanders and Phye (Chapter 4, p.63 -110).
The SELF Research Centre addresses a wide cross-section of settings, participants, research areas and members and has conducted high-quality work in the area of school bullying. In particular, the inclusion of bullying came about from interest in the work of Roberto Parada who joined the SELF Research Centre in 2000. The secondary schools bullying program saw the involvement of approximately 8 schools in their intervention and since then additional schools across Australia have exercised this intervention program. In broadening this scope, approximately 8 schools will be involved with the upcoming primary school intervention. Since the secondary schools bullying project, over 10 additional schools have been involved in research on bullying within the centre. The centre has critically evaluated the impact of bullying on desirable social and educational outcomes for victims, bullies, and other students using powerful multi-cohort-multi-occasion experimental designs and state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative analyses, tracking both individual students and whole schools over time
Flight Sander (DSP-group, Amsterdam)
Sander Flight (1971) is senior researcher at DSP-group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He studied political sciences and methodology at the University of Amsterdam. He has been working as a researcher for ten years now, specialising in crime-prevention. Among other things, he has developed a system for schools to register incidents, such as theft, violence or bullying. This system is now in use in over one hundred Dutch secondary schools. A separate version is being built for primary schools. See: www.irisdata.nl (in Dutch).
DSP is a privately owned company employing sixty people specialising in research, consultancy and interim-management for the government. School violence has been one of our subjects over the past ten years. Our first involvement was with local schools helping them to improve the safety of their school-buildings, students and surroundings. Within that program, we have developed several specialist products, such as a safe building-check, registration of incidents and making a safety-protocol for schools. See http://www.dsp-groep.nl.
Gavrilovici Ovidiu (Romania)
I am lecturer in the Dept. of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Case University (Cleveland, OH, USA), teaching Child Abuse and Neglect, Psychological Counseling, and Social Program Design and Evaluation in the BA and MA programs at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iasi, Romania.
I also am consulting with public and private organizations on program evaluation of social services, especially child protection, HIV/AIDS, and public service decentralization. My doctoral thesis is on Exposure to Violence and its associated psychological effects on children and adolescents in orphanages of Iasi County, Romania (2004).
I am directing the Educational Management Institute at our University, which connects me to our Master Program in Educational Management and to the school system in our county.
Our university sub-department (Medical psychology and special education) is connected to schools, especially to special schools of our county. Recently we are the recipients of a national research grant to study the psychological difficulties of schools’ staff, tapping indirectly onto issues related to school violence. Due to the nature of one of my courses (Child Abuse and Neglect) I am connected to different public and private agencies working in this field. I also facilitated during 2001-2002 the first community forum on domestic violence and participated into the following forum, on child abuse and neglect.
Glusic Nada (Ljubljana, Slovenija)
I myself am a part of City Administration and lead the Office for Prevention of Addiction which has a certain amount of funds at its disposal by which we call for tenders and according to accepted criteria chooses relevant organisations. In mid- nineties City of Ljubljana had recognised the need to cope with arising drug problems and we developed programmes focused on 4 target groups: young people, parents, teachers and citizens:
For the young: programs concerning the educational aims under the common titles: ”School-Life-Joy-Success” referring to the whole classes and “I create My Future Myself” for the smaller groups of pupils who already have troubles in their behaviour and are considered marginal;
For teachers: program for teachers to help them in communication with pupils and parents and to arise their awareness about drug problems and other deviations;
For parents: ‘Schools for parents’, the most developed part of our work which represents a network of different types of ‘schools for parents’ which is held in 23 kinder gardens, elementary 27 schools and 9 secondary/high schools. More than 1000 parents are involved each year together with 60 professionals. Our office is coordinator among all..
We provide information and educational materials for target groups. A special booklet and a poster with the information about all advising and treating possibilities for drug addicts in Ljubljana is published yearly, as well as catalogue with time tables of schools for parents. We also provide schools with some useful literature and information
I myself was much engaged in preparing National Drug Resolution 2004 – 2009, as Ljubljana is from many aspects a study case for other Slovene towns.
I have already been involved in various international projects which added to my knowledge and paid much efforts directed to coping problems in drug field and at the same time to other deviation problems.
Our department’s mission is to help kinder gardens and schools (especially elementary) to create such environment that can make sure safe place for education and breeding children on their way to maturity.
In Ljubljana there are different projects of Violence in schools (performed and financed also by other actors and founders. The biggest are:
by Office for the Youth:
1. individual work with the young who causes violence (17 involved)
2. individual work with the young- victims of violence(22 involved)
3. prevention workshops (250 workshops in 49 elementary schools and 32 secondary and high schools) by Department for Social and Health affairs:
4. 1 project (Labyrinth) by Urban security Council: :
5. ’Secure school’ (in 6 schools).
Projects for preventing addiction:
Funded by Office for Prevention of Addiction: 13 projects (oriented to drug solving problems)
In Ljubljana there are much more then hundred projects for young people in most of which young people have been equipped by skills which can also be useful coping with violence.
Gogou Elena (Greek Ombudsman)
I was an educator for 10 years before I started working for the Greek Ombudsman. I am now an Investigator in the Department of Children’s Rights. Part of my job deals with redressing children’s and adults’ complaints pertaining to violations of children’s rights. Bullying is within this sphere, although very few complaints have come forward. The other part of my job is visiting schools, talking to children about their rights, and listening to children’s concerns, with the view to presenting these concerns to the state and to policy makers. My experience is that school is rife with bullying, but schools in Greece are not subject to the Local Authority (only school buildings), so I have not had a brush ever with a Local Authority about this issue.
The Greek Ombudsman is an Independent Authority that was established in 1998, to mediate between the Greek State and its citizens, whenever they feel they are being wronged. The Children’s Rights Department was established in 2003, and has a staff of 15, coming from various backgrounds and disciplines (psychology, social work, education, law, and so on). Our jurisdiction covers the whole of Greece.
Hanus, Milan (The Vocational School and The Technical College, Horsovsky Tyn, Czech Republic)
The Vocational School and The Technical College, Horsovsky Tyn, 122 Littrowa Street Is the biggest school in our region. There is about 800 students in. It is a country school with agricultural, building and market fields of education. There is no problems vith violence and bullying (one incident five years ago). The school prepare good conditions of life and conditions for it`s students, f.e. free computers vith quck internet on halls, clubs of interest.
I am a teacher 30 years in this school. 25 years I the adviser of career and education. I am interesting on the violence in school. I do not like the school bullying and I am as a class master and as a careers and educational master bringing up my pupils. I have very good requirement for my job here – sympathy of the governing body and requirement for my further training. Next informations are on sosvp.chytrak.cz.
Hosennen Tamar (National Coalition Building Institute)
I am the chapter leader. My main work is to lead reunions with the members and (in)form them, to make contacts with schools, authorities and other organization, to organize workshops and to do public relations. I studied Political Science at Geneva University and I am doing my research for the paper entitled “la violence à l’école: un défi politique” (violence at school: a political challenge). Three years ago I did the Train the Trainers and since than a lot of internal (NCBI) and external (ex: CFE) trainings.
Jaeger Thomas (Germany, ZEPF)
My name is Thomas Jäger, I`m 36 years old and live in Ludwigshafen in Germany. I`m a psychologist and since 1996 I’m working as a researcher at the Centre for Educational Research of the University of Koblenz-Landau. From 1997 I coordinated small school-based and community-based violence prevention projects and collected experiences with whole-school-approaches, several questionings of up to 3000 pupils and started the first small German link collection on school violence. From 2000-2003 I coordinated my first EU-project called VISIONARY in which we – that means five EU-countries: Germany, the UK, Portugal, Denmark and Finland – created an Internet portal on school bullying and violence. Basing on this project I worked out a proposal for a successor project called VISIONARIES-NET that was approved by the European Commission in 2004. In this new project an International team of partners from France, Germany, Spain and Romania will hold online conferences on school bullying and violence and extend the VISIONARY portal by three further languages. When I`m not working for this project – what is not that often in these days - I`m trying my very best to work on my phd … ;-)
E-mail: jaegerth@zepf.uni-landau.de
Web site: http://www.violence-in-school.info / http://www.gewalt-in-der-schule.info
Short description of the web site
Johnston Elizabeth (European Forum for Urban Safety)
Elizabeth JOHNSTON have since 2000 worked as Deputy Executive Director of the European Forum for Urban safety (EFUS), a network and think tanks gathering more than 300 local authorities. The EFUS endeavours to enhance safety policies based on a balance between prevention, repression and solidarity, and to consolidate the role of cities and local representatives in local safety policy partnerships throughout Europe.
Kessler Isabel (University of Kent)
The European Institute of Social Services (EISS) of the University of Kent is currently carring out 2 reviews.
The European Institute of Social Services (EISS) of the University of Kent (UK) is currently carrying out two reviews of knowledge on behalf of the European Commission. One is on best practice in the prevention of violence. The other one is on the prevention of juvenile crime. Both studies cover the 25 countries of the European Union.
In this regard, we are conducting an extensive literature review (including unpublished "grey literature"), visiting several European countries and organizing an expert meeting in London.
Important parts of both projects are school violence and antisocial behaviour by juveniles, i.e. bullying. Therefore, we are very much interested in exchanging information about the current European and international experiences in those areas, especially with regard to promising and effective (successfully evaluated) prevention programmes.
Le Blevec Louis (La Rochelle, France)
Director of the Local Agence for Social Mediation.
There are 14 mediation agents during the day and other 14 during the night. They have a direct relation with the young community and try to sret up projects with other structuress. They are very active around school and go in the school to speak with studients.
Issues we met frequently are racket, drugs abuse and gangs around school that do not belong to the school.
Leonarduzzi Danila (Turin, Italia)
I’m responsable of Nucleo di Prossimità, a pool of 40 persons, the main action is a new method of intervention in case of conflicts between citizens. My professional background
The structure works on target. as violence in the school , violence against old people and urban environment. Actually we're working on three schoos of the outskirft of Turin
danila.leonarduzzi@comune.torino.it
Leroy Jean-Xavier and Defaut Isabelle (Mons, Belgium)
We are two psychologists working on the School Program of the Prevention Service of the city of Mons since two years.
The Prevention Service of the city of Mons has noticed that, for more than 10 years, some various problems exist in schools such as incivility, thefts, vandalism, rackets, use and selling of drugs, physical and verbal violence and other offences that are not related to the police. Following this, the prevention service of the city of Mons has established the “School Program” whose mission is to prevent violence and drop-out within the different schools in the Mons area.
In 1994, the City of Mons hired a specialist to implement the School Program of the Prevention Service of the City of Mons. Due to workload, a child psychologist was hired in 1995. The first commissions were then set up. In 1997, a survey of the needs of secondary schools was performed in order to assess the work’s goals. This led to in 1998 in the setting up of trainings of education teams. Qualify of life improvement projects have since been added. In 2002, an “Ombushman Cell” was set up in a school for use by secondary pupils and their teachers. Presently, the School Programme Team has been renewed and is made up of two psychologists who follow up initial projects whilst expanding them to kindergarden and primary schools of Mons. A new route is to develop a working relationship with the parents.
Logelain Maureen (Bruxelles, Belgique)
II’m working in the Service of school mediation of City of Brussels since 1996. First as mediator in a technical and professional secondary school, now as coordinator of the Service. I’m in contact with 3 kind of people:
-to coordinate the school mediators and their action in schools about violence and disconnected students.
-to coordinate with others coordinators and the prevention official of Bravvo asbl ours actions for a good politic of prevention in the city of Brussels.
-to coordinate with school directors, school inspector, adviser, directors of wellbeing and health at school of the department of public instruction a good politic of prevention in schools.
In the Service of school mediation of the city of Brussels are working 7 mediators. Every mediator is working for one school. There are 5 schools concerned by this project: “Bischoffsheim Institute, De Mot-Couvreur Institute, Paul-Henri Spaak Institute, Leon Lepage Atheneum, and Royal Academy of Fine Arts. They are working in secondary schools for helping students to be in good conditions for working at school, to have a good life project. They are both working with teachers, educators...on different projects and with students alone: they meet them in their office to have a talk with them, to have mediation between students.
One mediator is also working for the five schools. She helps the classrooms in order to have a good atmosphere, good conditions for learning. She gives different animations, trainings to classrooms of students
maureen.logelain@brunette.brucity.be
Claire Monks (Kingston University, London)
I am a senior lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University, London.
María José Mohedano García
She has a degree in Philology. Related to teaching
for many years and nowadays she works in the project "Relational approach in early education" in the Socrates programm.
Montgomery Linda (Falkirk, Scotland)
I am employed as a curriculum Support Officer at the Falkirk Council in Scotland to support staff in educational establishments. Indeed, the local authority (LA) has a responsibility to instruct, guide and support all 70 educational establishments in taking forward anti-bullying approaches. The LA sets out a policy which is approved by locally elected councillors and sent to schools along with guidelines. Schools, then, develop their own policies.
We are currently re-writing the LA policy and guidelines. The guidelines will include strategies to tackle bullying.
Whilst writing these documents we consult with young people and their parents. This is a big issue for us – to make sure that policies and guidelines truly meet the needs of young people and that young people and their parents feel that bullying is taken seriously and young people are being listened to. Another big issue is how to support both victims of bullying and those who display bullying behaviour.
linda.montgomery@falkirk.gov.uk
Nobre Ana (Portugal)
I am a senior inspector in the Security Co-ordinating Office which is a central governmental organization part of the body responsible for the central co-ordination of the national program focusing on schools safety and security. We applied locally from a national program
In January this year I start dealing with the national program focusing on school safety and security as the link between police and teachers training centres in order to share the monitoring of a course targeting teachers and aiming their preparation to prevent and face bullying and violence.
Parada Roberto (Austrialia, SELF Center)
Roberto Parada is a PhD Candidate and work with Linda Finger as a team with the University of Western Sydney SELF Research Centre exploring issues solely on school bullying. Roberto began his PhD in 2000 with a longitudinal research design and bullying intervention for secondary schools, and Linda became involved with this project in 2002 (forming the basis for her Honours thesis). Since then, they have extended their work from secondary school bullying issues to primary schools and are currently working on a bullying intervention for the upper primary ages. For more information regarding their work please refer to their co-authored chapter entitled ‘In the Looking Glass: A Reciprocal Effects Model Elucidating the Complex Nature of Bullying, Psychological Determinants and the Central Role of Self’ (Marsh, Parada, Craven and Finger, 2004) in the book ‘Bullying, Implications for the classroom: What Does the Research Say?’ by Sanders and Phye (Chapter 4, p.63 -110).
The SELF Research Centre addresses a wide cross-section of settings, participants, research areas and members and has conducted high-quality work in the area of school bullying. In particular, the inclusion of bullying came about from interest in the work of Roberto Parada who joined the SELF Research Centre in 2000. The secondary schools bullying program saw the involvement of approximately 8 schools in their intervention and since then additional schools across Australia have exercised this intervention program. In broadening this scope, approximately 8 schools will be involved with the upcoming primary school intervention. Since the secondary schools bullying project, over 10 additional schools have been involved in research on bullying within the centre. The centre has critically evaluated the impact of bullying on desirable social and educational outcomes for victims, bullies, and other students using powerful multi-cohort-multi-occasion experimental designs and state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative analyses, tracking both individual students and whole schools over time.
Pavalescu Maria (Romania, Teatcher Association from Suceava County)
2 years ago Teacher Training Agency from Suceava county have developed an training course about violence in schools and ways to prevent violence.
I am 45 years, I am primary teacher at Sport High School in Suceava ,Romania and also student in the last year at Iasi University at Faculty Science of Education student at distance learning
Teachers Association from Suceava county was created last year so we are interested to develop many activities with our members
All our activities is based on volunteer work. .In our association there are 11 persons very enthusiastic they are the staff of association
Now we are working at our web page and we hope it will be soon available on net.
Teachers Association from Suceava county was created last year so we are interested to develop many activities with our members and to participate to European projects.
Now our association have 287 members
I am the president of association.
Teachers are interested to participate in programmes to help students ,parents and local community to prevent violence in schools
Perry Kevin (Denmark,Bornholms Regional Local Authority)
My background is that of an English social worker who has lived, worked and studied in Denmark for the last seven years. I recently gained my masters of science in social worker work. My dissertation focuses upon social work education and how English and Danish social workers are prepared to work with child sexual abuse.
I have worked with children, young people and their families for about 15 years now in both England and Denmark. I have countered bullying often in my work in Denmark. Bullying is a problem that frequently shows up both in schools and in higher education.
Mobile telephones seem to be a constant media for bullies to continue harassing their victims around the clock – and out of school. This is an issue that seems to be on the rise – moreover the issue of sending embarrassing photo’s of one another is something that we often hear about within our local authority.
In cooperation with the police and other partners we have produced a brochure giving various offers concerning crime prevention – bullying is a theme offered by myself – after realising bullying is on the increase I researched the matter and put together my own package for classes and for those who work with children daily.
Some schools in the local authority work with some teaching material called trine til trine – that’s step by step in English. This material is supposed to be a long term strategy in relation to tackling bullying and other issues.
Price Roslyn (Warwickshire, United Kingdom)
I am School Attendance Audit Officer and Training Officer at the Education Social Work Service of Warwickshire.
The Education Social Work Service has statutory responsibility for ensuring that all local children of Compulsory School Age attend school regularly and punctually and gain maximum benefit from their education. This includes addressing social, emotional and welfare issues for pupils and parents where necessary and acting as mediator between families and schools on matters of dispute.
My role is to support schools strategically in improving their attendance. This includes helping them write, implement, review and evaluate policies, including Anti Bullying Policies. I also take the lead in supporting schools to meet their statutory annual absence targets and in implementing the planned new absence coding system.
I also lead on our membership of a European wide Project to address the causes of truancy with partners in Spain, Italy and Sweden.
I work closely with colleagues who directly address issues of bullying in schools and also with our parenting support workers.
In addition I am the training officer for our Service
Rello Anne-Lii (Estonia)
The Estonian Neignbourhood Watch Association commenced its activities in May 2000. In late 2002, the Estonian Naighbourhood watch Association run a pilot project in a school in Tallinn to idetify possibilities for the school Watch. The feedback was positive, both the studients and the school administration saw such undertaking as necessary.
Our aim is to gather adequate about the safety situation and therefore we carry through a survey among studients. Currently we plan to contact also with schools boards of guardians and involve them to the project as well.
Ristmae Tiina (Estonia)
The kindergarten project started at he end of 2003. The essential goal of the project is to forestall problems and violence that arise in schools.
Task of the project are :
- increasing in children through differents activities tolerance and readiness to help, skills to stans for oneself and for the others;
- increase teacher' awareness and skills to prevent and resolve conflicts between children, also increase awareness of general security in kindergarten
- to explain within limits of parents meeting the principles of general security.
In 2004, project was supported by Nomme city District Govermment. In 2005, we plan to continue activity in 11 Tallinn kindergartens.
Eva María Romera Felix
Doctoral researcher funded by Plan de la Junta de
Andalucía en la Formación de Doctores in the Department of Psichology.
Antonio Jesús Rodriguez
Doctoral student in the Department of Psychology
Serrano Angela (Spain, Valencia)
My name is Angela Serrano. I have been in charge of the area of School Violence in the Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence for the last three years. I am 32 years old. I have a degree on Psychology and another on Pedagogy. I am currently working in collaboration with the Observatory for the Prevention of School Violence, Valencia,and we are currently developing an intervention programme with parents, pupils and teachers.
The Queen Sofía Center is an institution which, under the honorary presidency of Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain, promotes the study of violence in all of its manifestations. Our fields of research include: armed conflict, terrorism, domestic violence, elder abuse, violence and the media, school violence, biological bases of violence, and child abuse. Our main objectives are to conduct and promote scientific research into the underlying factors of violence.
Shin Hee Kyung (South Korea)
Lecturer at University & school counselor as expert supporter (juvenile delinquency, bullying, violence).
Local authority gives financial support for expert supporter also school counselors to some middle and high schools that have most problems with “Maladaptation of children” than other schools in the province. My actions are more focused on local experiences detached from national program and I work essentially with the school staff.
Shoeb Ahmed (Egypt)
I am Ahmed , fresh graduate , electronics and communications engineer , volunteer in gezera youth center . this center targets all youth providing them with many activities cultural , social , sport and art , in addition doing seminars discussing issues like violence and the importance or resisting this kind of behavior in our life .
The youth centre gathers a lot of youth starting from age 15 to 35 . and during the open discussions and the brain storming techniques , issues like school violence are being discussed and evaluated , by spotting on its effect on the individuals and the whole society .
Šindlerová Alena (Prague, Czech Republic)
I am the coordinator crime prevention in the head of crime prevention unit of the city of Prague
In social prevention I cooperate with City Center for Social Services and Prevention and in Situation Prevention with City Police Prague and with State Police Czech Republic. I cooperate with school in Prague, financing some projects, cooperate activities inside school and out school activities
In 2000 the Municipal Assembly of the City of Prague approved the Concept of Crime Prevention of the City of Prague. This concept defines Prague’s priorities in this area. The priorities comprise comprehensive educational, information and counselling action in schools including special ”help letterboxes” for pupils and also specific educational programmes designed to heighten the legal awareness of children and adults (in particular children’s parents) so that they know what an offence and an administrative offence are and what sanctions they can expect.
In the last years of the primary school (finishing at the age of 15), juvenile aggressors tend to become members of suspect gangs, which in general, in adult years, get into conflict with the law more often than others. If we succeed in putting an end to their aggressive conduct in early childhood, we shall thus reduce the risk of their getting involved in crime when they grow up. City of Prague has more then 200 Basic school with Primary level and Lower-secondary level.
alena.sindlerova@cityofprague.cz
Seafimov Victor (Bulgaria, Alliance for Youth Development
I’m a high school student and I represent the “Alliance for Youth Development” from the city of Plovdiv. I was the chairman of the Youth Council in the city. I have experience in work with young people from my work in the organizations above. In October 2004 I initiated an anti-youth-violence campaign which involved about 13 000 high school students from Plovdiv. We had achieved a lot - an anti-youth-violence-commission has been made on our initiative. Now we work in the field of youth activities and prevention of negative social effects on the young people.
I really hope that this conference will help us to see different points of view and to share some experience in the field of school bullying and violence.
The Alliance for Youth Development is working with young people in the region of Plovdiv. Most of our members are active members of the local Youth Council. Now we work in the field of youth activities and prevention of negative social effects on the young people.
Strauch Bernd (Lower Saxony, Germany)
I am advisor to the Landespräventionsrat Niedersachsen, State Government of Lower Saxony. The main fields of its activities are truancy, violence in schools, bullying, advising, local crime prevention councils.
Our main partners to deal with school bullying and violence (SBV) are the teachers, the parents, the police, the youth workers, the Justice.
We are not involved directly in actions dealing with SBV.
We evaluate sometimes our actions - we have, however, evaluated the project "truancy in schools".Our funds come from the State Government of Lower Saxony. The activities of the office of the Landespräventionsrat can be classified as follows:
- Operation and coordination of prevention projects
- Setting up events regarding the field of prevention
- General tasks and service in the area of prevention
Some projects can be considered model projects and are being evaluated by the office
Bernd.Strauch@mj.niedersachsen.de
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