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Are you involved in or do you know about European initiatives with young people in correctional facilities (or other relevant settings) engaging as experience experts with other juveniles/ front line staff/ management staff/ policy makers?NO
Are you involved in European initiatives in which young people train the communication skills of justice professionals inside correctional facilities (or other relevant settings)?No
How does the initiative facilitate youth participation?-
What has been your experience with the initiative and its effectiveness?-
For several years now, in our statutory training, we have been focusing on the issue of the experience of the individuals. This can be done through fiction (we have recently mobilized a lot of films on the radicalization of young people), but also through the testimony of former young people in detention. On the question of the career path of young people in institutions, we regularly make this bet on the experiential; but it is not a simple exercise, both because it is necessary to avoid the "pathos" - and this speech is prepared if one does not want it to be traumatic -, but especially because the obligatory anonymity of the juvenile justice makes it difficult to recruit speakers/interveners. We also work occasionally with the JADE program (young ambassadors of law), which is operated by the office of the defender of rights.
Are you involved in or do you know about European initiatives with young people in correctional facilities (or other relevant settings) engaging as experience experts with other juveniles/ front line staff/ management staff/ policy makers?Services sometimes involve, on an associative basis, former minors who were taken in charge by child protection & criminal justice. But I do not know of a situation where these interventions are actually made by minors, for the reasons mentioned above.
Are you involved in European initiatives in which young people train the communication skills of justice professionals inside correctional facilities (or other relevant settings)?These experiential aspects remain difficult to handle and construct, and are not always favored by training teams. The staging of emotions is delicate, the discourse of young people is often denouncing vis-à-vis the institution, and sometimes even the educational interest of the exercise is questioned. But through experience, we know that the word of young people or former young people must be accompanied, especially to protect them.
How does the initiative facilitate youth participation? What has been your experience with the initiative and its effectiveness?If this exercise goes badly at the level of the training teams, it seems to satisfy most of the time the learners, “troubled” by the frankness of the remarks made and by the discovery of the discourse of the Other, and of the effect, under- estimated, of our professional practices on the lives of these young people.
*The answers above were provided by ENAP on behalf of ENPJJ: French National Academy for Youth Protection and Juvenile Justice (http://www.enpjj.justice.fr/node/60/).
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Are you involved in or do you know about European initiatives with young people in correctional facilities (or other relevant settings) engaging as experience experts with other juveniles/ front line staff/ management staff/ policy makers?No
Are you involved in European initiatives in which young people train the communication skills of justice professionals inside correctional facilities (or other relevant settings)?No
How does the initiative facilitate youth participation?No
What has been your experience with the initiative and its effectiveness?No
No, we are not invoved nor we are aware of such initiatives.
Are you involved in or do you know about European initiatives with young people in correctional facilities (or other relevant settings) engaging as experience experts with other juveniles/ front line staff/ management staff/ policy makers?No
Are you involved in European initiatives in which young people train the communication skills of justice professionals inside correctional facilities (or other relevant settings)?No, we are not.
How does the initiative facilitate youth participation? What has been your experience with the initiative and its effectiveness?This content is only available to registered members of EPTA.
In our basic training for prison staff we have a module on the specific needs of young people in detention. We visit with the participants juvenile institutions and also invite youngsters deprived of their liberty to classes. They share their experiences, talk about their needs and answer questions of our trainees.
Are you involved in or do you know about European initiatives with young people in correctional facilities (or other relevant settings) engaging as experience experts with other juveniles/ front line staff/ management staff/ policy makers?See above
Are you involved in European initiatives in which young people train the communication skills of justice professionals inside correctional facilities (or other relevant settings)?The goal of these encounters is not specifically to train the communication skills of our staff, but to sensitize them to the specific needs of juveniles.
How does the initiative facilitate youth participation?-
What has been your experience with the initiative and its effectiveness?Both students and juveniles appreciate these opportunities of exchange. We get very good feedback, the students become more aware of the specific needs of youngsters.
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