Using a participatory approach, the development of the toolkit on health promotion will be based on the views and needs of vulnerable young people in prison, as well as on those of prison staff and representatives of NGOs as possible deliverers of health promotion in the prison setting. Methods include: extensive literature reviews and document analyses; needs assessments, including young prisoners, prison staff and other providers of health promotion by means of anonymous questionnaires; focus groups with young people in the prison setting that further explore questions arising from the needs assessment, and qualitative interviews with prison staff and members of NGOs that further explore their role and needs in providing health promotion.
The toolkit will be piloted in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Romania, and further developed and disseminated to a broad range of professionals and organisations in the EU Member States working with vulnerable young people in prison.
Contact person for Czech partner: JUDr. Michaela Štefunková, Ph.D, stefunkova@adiktologie.cz
Coordinator of the project: The Scientific Institute of the Medical Association of German Doctors (WIAD), Germany
Partners: Association of Varna Organisations for Drug Prevention (AVODP), Varna, Bulgaria, Birmingham City University (BCU), Birmingham, England, Convictus Eesti, Tallinn, Estonia, Latvia's Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health “Papardes zieds”, Riga, Latvia, Promovarea Dreptului la Sanatate (Promoting the Right to Health (PDS)), Bucharest, Romania, Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Addictology, Prague, Czech Republic
Grant support: Funded by the Public Health Programme of the European Commission (2008-2013), project number HPYP-2009 12 12
Duration of the project: 4/2010 – 3/2011
The project’s steering group and advisory board include representatives from GAT, Portugal, Osservatio Carcere, Padova, Italy, the European AIDS Treatment Group, the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction and a representative of the Offender Health Team, Department of Health, England.
URL: www.hpyp.eu