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SAARA: instrument for preventing youthcriminality Working Session “Sharing Practices” Thursday afternoon 18th March 2010, Rotterdam Henk Geelen Trajekt, Maastricht EMOL, Limburg NAPYN, Netherlands. Cooperation youthwork-police Part of a network-organisation
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SAARA: instrument for preventing youthcriminality Working Session “Sharing Practices” Thursday afternoon 18th March 2010, Rotterdam Henk Geelen Trajekt, Maastricht EMOL, Limburg NAPYN, Netherlands
Cooperation youthwork-police Part of a network-organisation Different disciplines, different goals Both: prevention, help or support Respect for each profession Supported by the organisations Organised by workers in practice
Several activities • safety protocol for youthworkers • investment in integrated policy • local Youth Prevention Platform • a. individual casemanagement • b. mutual groupanalysis and activities • c. framework: local “safety-house” • 4. every year: informal meeting policemen, youthworkers, teachers, care-specialists
Police: obligatory anual Beke-shortlist: • - irritating, nuisance-causing, criminal groups • describing, analysis, activities, evaluation • Youthwork: anual SAARA-inventory: • Scanning, Analysis, Arrangements, Respons, Assesment (and going round the circle) • Cooperation: discussing results at each stage: • from different positions, regarding privacy, • for complementary actions and evaluation
Evaluation and effects • complementary preventive-repressive work • acceptance-respect, also among youngsters • significant decrease of: • criminal offenders and groups • nuisance-causing groups (and calls) • 4. more acceptance for the preventive concept: “it takes a village to raise a child”
Lessons learned • youthwork needs equal professional status • integrated youthpolicy is a condition • police has to have an open mind for change • youthwork has to accept a professional code • 5. complementary work has to be evaluated to reach practice-based evidence (local level) • 6. national research should be carried out to reach evidence-based practice (standards)