As part of the exchange program between PH international Georgia and PH International Armenia, ten Armenian resource officers visited Georgia. The goal of the visit was to share experience concerning the cooperation between the schools, police and other structures.
During the visit, several interesting meetings were held at the Office of Resource Officers, at schools and the police academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The guests attended the lessons at schools that were delivered with participation of resource officers and police officers. At the MIA Police academy, they had a chance to meet with several department heads and to discuss several topics, such as community-oriented police, domestic violence, juvenile questioning procedure specifics, and staff recruitment, training and other. They also observed different learning and training facilities of the academy.
With the initiative of the police officer, inspector-investigator Joseph Kurtskhalia who has been involved in GE Calls program for more than five years a football competition was organized in the school #64. The school enrolled in the Ge-calls program (formerly - Georgian Legal Socialization Program) in 2012 ever since, they continue the legal culture lessons and after-school programs with participation of local police officer.
As part of community policing, carefully planned football games with the leadership of the police officers proved to be extremely positive byproduct of the program, in which youth participate, learn skills, communicate with police officer in casual environment and have sense of belonging. That, as a result, reduces delinquent actions at schools and in the neighboring community.
On November 21, 2014, IDEA trainers of NGO “Chayka” (Gull) delivered a training ‘My Online Security’ to the ninth grade students of Iskra’s secondary school within IDEA Project Powered by Microsoft YouthSpark. During the training, 17 students learned how to use Internet safely. As the IDEA coordinator of NGO ‘Chayka’ Tatiana Melnyk said, "By expanding as a result of the training their knowledge of online security and safety, its participants have become more confident Internet users".
IDEA Center of charitable organization 'Fund of Help for Needy' in cooperation with Khmelnytsky Oblast Youth Library conducted a training on the topic 'Community activity. The work of psychologist'. 11 students studying Applied Psychology at Khmelnytsky National University participated at the training. Since they are goinng to graduate soon, the training aimed to assist them in choosing their future field of activity.
The trainning program included such topics as forms of non-profit organizations; the mission, main activities, and strategic plan for the organization; job descriptions and instructions; using Word templates, and creating and editing table accounting requests of clients to optimize operations; online polling; cooperation with NGOs and government; organization's resources and its financial viability; PR activities; Using Microsoft software for NGOs, and new features of 'cloud' technologies.
7th grade teachers and the SROs of the participant schools from Batumi, Kutaisi, Rustavi and Tbilisi participated in the four-day training to sharpen their skills and knowledge for effective delivery of the lessons - ”Basics of Legal Culture”.
Education experts –Manana Jincharadze and Giorgi Gakheladze introduced the participants to the Legal Culture curriculum, described the co-teaching tactics between the SROs and teachers and their roles in creation of legal culture and safety in school.
Throughout October 10-11 and then October 24-25, 2014 respectively, two trainings were organized for 20 School Resource Officers (SRO), assigned to Yerevan and Ararat high schools. The training was organized within Armenia CALLS program and aimed to improve communication and project development skills of SROs, as well as equip them with conflict prevention and conflict resolution skills in the school environment.
On October 29 principals’ conference of USAID’s new civic education Momavlis Taoba Program (MT) was held at the Ambassador Hotel in Tbilisi. The conference was organized by PH international and Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.
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