On November 15, 2013 PH International Armenia Country Director Mariam Martirosyan and Hounan Poghosyan, First Deputy Minister of RA Police, Major General, signed an Agreement to reinforce the cooperative implementation of PHI's Community Action and Linkages for Legal Socialization Program (AM CALLS) which supports many components of the Child Rights Protection National Plan.
Throughout October 22-26, within the AM CALLS program, 4 towns of Armenia, namely Gyumri, Vanadzor, Metsamor and Echmiadzin, hosted World Café format based Community Dialogues to explore problems concerning local youth, especially those living in difficult conditions, and to come up with citizen action plans to solve those problems.
Within the Armenia Community Action and Linkages for Legal Socialization (AM CALLS) program, throughout October 19-22 three trainees from Vanadzor, Gyumri and Yerevan together with a group of 5 Armenian, Georgian and U.S. staff working for the Armenian and Georgian Legal Socialization Reform Programs, participated in a Training on Community Dialogues and Youth Opportunity Planning led by Diana Wahle, Collaboration and Planning Consultant from Vermont.
Over Twenty Syrian- Armenian women participated in the training organized in Yerevan by the two trainers who had recently completed training in “Non-Violent Parenting and Conflict Resolution” within the AM CALLS project. This initiative was the basis for an effective collaboration between “Save the Children” working with Syrian Armenians and PH International staff.
On March 9, within the AM CALLS project, the “Offenders' Rehabilitation Center” State Non-Commercial Organization of the RA Ministry of Justice (MoJ) organized an event called “Motherhood and Childhood” at the Abovyan penitentiary where female convicts carry out their sentence. During the event, over ten children arrived to the penitentiary from different regions of Armenia to meet their mothers and celebrate International Women’s Day with their mothers.