In the last couple of years, Correlation has worked together with hundreds of organisations all over Europe: In the Correlation working groups, during the seminars and project meetings and last but not least at the final conference in December 2011.
Correlation as an EC funded project comes to an end in March 2012 after 2 periods of 3 years. Many organisations have already started to use materials developed by Correlation, such as the Social Intervention Tool and the Hepatitis C training module.
Many partners have expressed their interest to continue collaboration and to work together in the field of social inclusion and health. For many partners, Correlation was and is a unique opportunity to exchange and share experiences, as it brings together grass root, policy and research level. For that reason, we are going to establish Correlation as a sustainable Network, hosted at the Regenboog Group in Amsterdam.
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We will keep you informed about the network structure, decision making processes and all related issues on this website soon...
Latest news:
The Civil Society Forum on Drugs
presented 16 recommendations towards the new European Drug Strategy, which is currently drafted by the European Commission. The recommendations contain a rationale and practical suggestions for the Commission and national Member States. In a couple of annexes, particular member organisations of the Forum submitted additional statements and recommendations. The set of documents were presented to the Horizontal Drug Group ( consisting of representatives from all EU member states) during their meeting in Brussel in April. It is expected that the new EU Drug Strategy will be finally agreed on during the Cypriot EU Presidency in the second half of 2012.
The Correlation Network published a number of policy briefing papers, reflecting the work done in the outreach, eHealth, peer involvement and Hepatitis C working groups of the Network.
1st International Conference on Family-Based Prevention and Positive Parenting - 8-10 June 2012, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
The Family Prevention 2012 conference is a part of “The Strengthening Families Program” project of Institute Utrip in Slovenia, supported by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia. The conference is hosted by UTRIP (Slovenia) and Lutra Group (USA).
CITY HEALTH 2012: CREATING HEALTHY OPPORTUNITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Guildhall, City of London: 22nd- 23rd October 2012
The London Drug and Alcohol Policy Forum is organising a meeting on healthy cities and a healthy public, focusing on policy and practice in relation to public health in cities. The conference plans to have a special focus on health behaviours and it gives the opportunity to demonstrate the leading role of cities in addressing issues associated with a large, complex, diverse and shifting populations.
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (CIAR) published a project report on HCVB prevention in Europe: Identification and optimisation of evidence-based HCVB prevention in Europe for young drug users at risk: results of expert interviews"
The Peer Support work package has developed a website forthose who want to work on enabling and increasing the meaningful involvement of people who use drugs in the development and implementation of services and policies.
The conference was organised with plenary sessions, abstract driven workshops, training sessions and opens the space for discussion and interactive workshops for participants. The conference took place in an exellent venue in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, with support of the Slovenian Ministery of Health and other conference partrners.
Human Rights and Drug Policy Course:
The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards. Discussion will focus partly on the identification and understanding of human rights including those that have their basis in international agreements and laws, and in part on evaluation and assessment of the gap between rights and practice in the implementation of drug policies in many countries and regions. The focus of the course will be global and participants will be drawn from all regions internationally. Financial aid is available. For more information, visit:
Course Dates: July 16-27, 2012 Application deadline: February 15, 2012
Correlation produced a practical manual to early intervention, outreach, peer work, focus groups and motivational interviewing.
The manual focus particular on young persons between the ages 16 and 23, who experiment with drugs and are not completely integrated in society, but have not fallen out either. The reader discuss different practical interventions and was developed by an international expert group, including peers.
Hepatitis C: Treatment and care for people who inject drugs
A three day learning program in 12 modules: Introducing HCV, it' s transmission and prevention, diagnostic tests, treatment options, co-infectionb, organisatorial, practice and policy issues. Here you can find the integral manual online and as download.
The Steering Committee of the project met in Amsterdam to discuss the final process of the project, dissemination and advocacy opportunities and to prepare the conference in Ljubljana. The conference program is updated now with the latest information, please check correlation-net.org/correlation_conference/programme.html
World Hepatitis Day 2011
On the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day 2011, the Correlation Network launches 12 key messages for a good Hepatitis C policy and practice among people who use drugs. These messages were prepared by practitioners in the field of Hepatitis treatment and care and contain guiding principles, practice examples and references for further reading.
Hepatitis C: Treatment and care for people who inject drugs
On the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day 2011, the Correlation Network launches 12 key messages for a good Hepatitis C policy and practice among people who use drugs. These messages were prepared by practitioners in the field of Hepatitis treatment and care and contain guiding principles, practice examples and references for further reading.
