One of the most important components of Legal Socialization Program of Georgia is the Legal Culture Classes conducted at schools jointly by the police representative and Civil Education teacher. The classes aim to contribute to crime prevention through raising students’ awareness in legal issues.
In October 2011 GLSP organized the trainings for ethnic minority teachers and police officers who will conduct lessons in Legal Culture in Public Schools of Marneuli and Samtskhe-Javakheti Region.
On October 13-16, 2011 GLSP conducted 3-day training for law enforcement officers and teachers that enrolled in the program this year. Ten law enforcement officers, fifteen civic education teachers and two school principals from Gori and Samtredia participated in the training.
ACETT school civics club students identified the needs of IDP communities in Khurvaleti, Georgia and mobilized local government and other stakeholders to meet these needs with joint efforts.
On October 31, Access Program in Akhaltsikhe hosted a Halloween party. Among the numerous guests were:Nina Jugheli, English Language Programs Coordinator at U.S. Emabssy/PAS and Walter Gaddis, U.S. Embassy ELF in Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe Javakheti regions.
Currently there are eight CJCs working towards the promotion of the restorative justice principles in Armenia. They all are hosted and operated by various NGOs or child development community centers established in seven different regions of Armenia, still closely and regularly cooperate with each other. Six of the mentioned CJCs were established by PH ZANG program and form a well-developed working network.
One of the components of Legal Socialization Program, “Social Media at Schools” is to offer students an updated program. This direction of Legal Socialization Program was first launched last year and achieved significant success. However, considering the experience acquired so far, the program content was updated and now is available for new students as well as for winners of last year bloggers competition.