A Roundtable Meeting in Riga, Latvia on Preventive Youth Work with Gender Perspective 5-6. February 2015

Marta Resource Centre is organizing a Baltic cooperation meeting "A Roundtable Meeting on Preventive Youth Work with Gender Perspective" in Riga, Latvia on the 5-6th of February 2015. Sillamäe Society for Child Welfare are invited to take part in the event & share our experience about preventive work with youth and present organisation

Agenda: A Roundtable Meeting on Preventive Youth Work with Gender Perspective

5th February 2015

12:30 - 13:00 Welcome and introduction
13:00 - 14:30 Introductions/presentations/expectations of participants from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (10 min per organization)
14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break
14:50 - 16:20 Introduction of the Boy and Girl Group Method - the method used to empower young people and to prevent gender based violence (by MARTA)
16:20 - 17:20 Boy and Girl Group Method - results and struggles in Lithuania (by Center for Women and Children NENDRE)
17:20 - 17:45 Reflections
17:45 - 18:45 Dinner and networking

6th February

9:30 - 11:00 Involving men in working with boys (by MARTA)
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 13:20 Sexual bullying among young people in Latvia and Europe - a presentation of a new research and "peer to peer" intervention program (by MARTA)
13:20 - 14:20 Lunch
14:20 - 15:20 Empowering young people in Europe (by Humana People to People in Latvia)
15:20 - 16:20 Baltic States cooperation - ideas, funding etc.
16:20 - 16:45 Reflections, closing

SSCW will be represented by Irina Golikova, Executive Director and Stepan Bondarenko, Teacher and Youth Worker.