Dear Friends,
research on youth internationally.
I would like to kindly invite you to participate in the conference "Youth ? the Future of Family and Society. How to Guide Youth Towards a Happy Marriage and Family These Days" organized by our Institute for Integrated Prevention on the 12th of March 2017 in Paris. The conference will be held in English with a consecutive French translation.
Please don't keep this information to yourself.
We would be grateful for transmitting our invitation to the leaders working with youth, leaders of pro-family or parental organizations, leaders of religious organizations, social scientists, other social leaders and interested people from your countries.
Last week we have shared our approach and our experience during an international meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the end of March we go to Italy, and in May we will visit the Deutsches Institute fur Jugend und Gesellshaft.
We are open to cooperation also with you!
May the effects of our activities reinforce each other!
Kind regards,
dr Szymon Grzelak,
President of the Institute for Integrated Prevention, Poland
http://www.archipelagooftreasures.eu/
http://www.ipzin.org/en/
Title of the conference:
Youth ? the Future of Family and Society
How to Guide Youth Towards a Happy Marriage and Family These Days
Paris, 12th of March 2017 [English/French]
Goal of the conference:
To share the best fruits of the 20 years of experience of our Institute in guiding youth towards
a happy marriage and family and invite participants for cooperation. These fruits are:
- The Archipelago of Treasures? program which is successfully conducted in Polish public schools for over 35 000 teenagers every year and which reduces: contact of youth with pornography, early sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, suicidal thoughts (the effects proven by evaluation research). The program is broadly appreciated by parents and teachers as well as very attractive for youth.
- The strategy of ?Seven levers of effective prevention of youth problems? based on results of scientific research which can be implemented in every European country.
Our research on large samples of youth (N>10 000) shows: enormous role of parents as authority and as guides accepted by adolescents a lot more than one could suppose, unique potential of mother and father in protecting youth from different risk behaviors, strong role of religiosity in protecting from youth problems, central role of sexualization (stimulated by pornography) as a risk factor of multiple youth problems (suicidal thoughts and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, sexual risk behavior), alarmingly low level of dreams of youth about having children in future (very important demographic factor).
The approach that we propose can help broaden the acceptance of pro-family agenda in the society (beyond the usual group of conservative and religious supporters).
Target audience: Leaders working with youth, leaders of pro-family or parental organizations, leaders of religious organizations, social scientists, other social leaders and interested people
When and Where: 12th of March 2017 (14.30-18.30 + time for Q&A 18.30-19.30), Paroisse St.Leon ? 11 place du Cardinal Amette 75015 Paris, Chapelle de la Cour
Language: English with translation to French
Admittance is free. Please kindly fill in the below short registration form which will help us to prepare for the conference: https://goo.gl/forms/l24xhH0WGHNYPfKV2
Organizer of the conference: Institute for Integrated Prevention, Poland
Since 2012 our Institute has successfully presented its work at over 30 conferences (at the Polish Parliament, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Chancellery of the President, the Polish Conference of Bishops of the Catholic Church, and many regional conferences).
In July 2016 we have started our international plan by organizing an international workshop for over 100 participants from 20 countries. In October 2016 we have presented our strategy at the meeting of the Hungarian Demographic Round Table in Budapest.
Program of the conference:
Youth ? the Future of Family and Society
How to Guide Youth Towards a Happy Marriage and Family in These Days
Part 1: The prevention strategy of our Institute and it?s scientific background
[Szymon Grzelak PhD, President of the Institute for Integrated Prevention, Poland]
14.00-14.30 Admittance of the participants
14.30 Opening the conference
14.40 Why preventing youth problems is crucial for the future of the family and the society
15.00 Seven levers of effective prevention of youth problems
16.00 Coffee break
Part 2: Workshop: the Archipelago of Treasures? integrated prevention program
[Szymon Grzelak PhD & the team of certified trainers of the program]
The results of research show the Archipelago ofTreasures? as an effective program reducing: contact of youth with pornography, early sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, suicidal thoughts.
16.20 The Archipelago of Treasures? - see, feel and experience how we work with adolescents
17.50 Break
18.00 The Archipelago of Treasures? program - contents, methods and results of evaluation
research
18.30 Q&A session (for the most interested participants)
19.30 Closing of the conference