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CORRELATION
EUROPEAN NETWORK SOCIAL INCLUSION & HEALTH
Many persons in the EU do not have access to basic health and
social services. This poses a threat to their own health and
well-being and to public health in general. They live permanently
or temporarily outside mainstream society, because they belong
to a stigmatised group (ethnic minorities, sex workers), engage
in unaccepted risk behaviour (drug users) or find themselves
in risk situations (youngsters experimenting with party drugs),
in which they cannot appeal to the protecting safety structures
of mainstream society. They cannot be identified as one group
or category of people, but they share a combination of the following
characteristics: homelessness, stigmatised (risk) behaviour,
low social economic status, social exclusion, illegal judicial
status, mobility, migration, part of an ethnic minority group.
Many of them are involved in drug use and sex work.
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The
Correlation expert groups
finalised their work and prepared their products.
Available is:
- the cd-rom on internet outreach ’10 Golden Rules’,
- a report on 'Harm Reduction in the Hungarian Party Scene'
as a model of good practice,
- the reader ‘Overcoming Barriers: Migration, Marginalisation
Access to Health and Social Services’.
- the guidelines ‘Practical Guidelines for Delivering
Health Services to Sex Worker’,
- the reader ‘Empowerment and Self – Organisations
of Drug Users’,
- guidelines on ‘Providing Integrated Outreach Services’,
- a report on ‘Peer Training in a multicultural environment’,
- a ‘Data Collection Protocol for Specialist Harm
Reduction Agencies’,
- a report ‘Marginalisation, Social Inclusion and
Health – Experiences based on the work of Correlation’.
Please check the ‘product’
section of this site and download or order your copy.
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The
“Rubberball” : A Peer Education Training
Project for Russian speaking female sex worker by Jaana Kaupinnen
e.o.,PRO tukipiste, Helsinki.
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“Romanians
and Bulgarians in Male Street Sex Work in German Cities”
A comparison between their perceptions of living conditions
in the countries of origin and in Germany as an example for
a broader European migratory pattern. A dissertation by Christoph
Gille, Maastricht.
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“Problematic
Drug Use Of Migrants” : A research from Brno,
Czech Republic by MARISA, Brno.
The research “Problematic Drug Use in Migrants in Brno
and Surroundings” has focused on several marginalised
groups to which the new migrants enter, and investigated the
specifics of problematic
drug use in these groups. The aim of this investigation was
a risk assessment of this behaviour and drawing conclusions
to improve the access of these groups to drug services, which
should help
minimise possible risks and solve emerging problems.
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Ask:
„what do you need?“ instead of: „what do they
need?“
Notes from workshop „Engaging with minority ethnic communities:
the application of the Centre for Ethnicity and Health Community
Engagement Model“, Conference of Community Cooperation,
Brno, Czech Republic, April 21-22, 2008
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“Community
engagement: the Centre for Ethnicity and Health model”
by Jane Fountain e.o., University of Central Lancashire
This model radically challenges traditional research and consultation
processes amongst socially
excluded communities (variously described as community ‘representation,’
‘involvement,’
‘participation,’ ‘empowerment,’ and
‘development’). It provides a practical and robust
means to ensure that health and social services are equitable,
appropriate and responsive
for all members of the population.
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“Transcultural
competence in the Swiss health care system” by
Dagmar Domenig, Bern.
The necessity for migrant-specific services, especially in the
field of counselling and therapy, or, in other words, to give
drug services a transcultural character, is increasingly accepted,
even if it is not clear yet clear to most institutions how they
should implement this. For what exactly does transcultural competence
imply? What does migration-specific drug work look like in real
life? What must an institution do to be transculturally competent?
This article attempts to answer these questions.
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“Empowerment
–Models of good practice”: Heroin use and
peer support What lessons have been learnt? By Leopoldo Grosso,
Gruppo Abele, Torino.
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The European Commission just recently informed CORRELATION
that the application for funding in the Second Programme of
Community Action in the field of Health (2008 – 2013)
was evaluated positive, including a recommendation
for co-funding. In case the negotiations with the Executive
Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) proceed successfully,
the project will continue in 2009 for 3 years. With more than
60 collaborating and 16 associated partners, Correlation II
aims to tackle health inequalities and to improve prevention
and care of blood borne infection diseases among risk populations.
For more information, please read the executive summary of the
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The Correlation network – through the host Foundation
Regenboog AMOC – is member of the EXASS Network,
a European network of partnerships between stakeholders at frontline
level responding to drug problems providing experience and assistance
for inter-sectoral cooperation, established and organised by
the Pompidou Group.
A recent meeting of the network took place in Frankfurt a.M.
in Germany between 26 – 28 May 2008. The city of Frankfurt
has an outstanding reputation to tackle the drug phenomenon,
in particular open drug scenes, with a multi-disciplinary and
comprehensive approach |
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The European Institute of Social Services (EISS)
at University of Kent is pleased to announce the 1st Conference
of the Connections Project "Joining the Dots: criminal
justice, treatment and harm reduction". The event will
take place 25-27 March 2009 in Krakow, Poland. |
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‘Towards a Global Approach’
By Eberhard Schatz and John-Peter Kools
The motto of the 19th international harm reduction conference
was ‘towards a global approach’. The event took
place in the venues of the ‘Fira Barcelona’ and
was attended by more than 1000 participants from all over the
world. Beside European , US, Canadian and Australian delegates,
a lot of participants came from Asia, Arabic African countries
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IHRA’s
19th International Conference – "Towards
a Global Approach” (11 – 15 May 2008; Barcelona,
Spain).
The website will contain all of the information that you will
need about the event, the registration process, the programme,
abstract submission, travel and accommodation – as well
as an archive of information from the previous 18 IHRA conferences. |
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