Right Start Foundation International Engaging Ethnic Minorities on the Drugs issues |
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 Session 1 | |
| |  David Shaw | Assistant Chief Constable, West Midlands Police | Empowering and Strengthening the Fight against Drugs in our communities |
| | Eric Carlin | Chief Executive, Mentor UK | Drugs prevention |
| | Urfan Azad | Co founder BASIAN (Reading) | Heavens Keys – Despair to delight a care pathway to success. |
| | Nichola Adamson | Deputy Regional Manager, National Treatment Agency (NTA) | Ethnic minority engagement into treatment |
| | Maqsood Ahmed OBE | Senior Adviser on Muslim communities - Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Community Cohesion to Connecting with the Minorities |
| | Hubzy Productions | Independent Production Company | Voices for Change |
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Session 2
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| | Helen Cochrane | Treatment Commissioner, Birmingham Drugs Action Team | Community Involvement, Key in commissioning strategy |
| | Prof Jim Orford | Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham | Alcohol, Drugs and the family |
| | Kate Davies | Director, Centre for Ethnicity & Health. University Central Lancashire (UCLAN) | Communities leading from the front, Community involvement or Community deficit? |
| | Prof Alex Copello | Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham | Good practice in working with family members of problem alcohol/drug users |
| | Shaukat Warraich | Director, Right Start Foundation International | Force for change building collaborative engagements to address the Ethnic Minorities on the Anti Drugs agenda |
| | Ulfah Arts | Rap (Makki) then Short Drama | Ammi Ji, Abu Ji & the Drug Wala (Dear Mother, Dear Father and the Drug dealer) |
Lunch
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Workshops A & B | |
| | Workshop A | Dealing with Ethnic Minority and Concerned Others. Sakeena Women’s Project – What Treatment Modalities work with Ethnic Minority Concerned others? | Neelam Fida - Project Coordinator Prof Alex Copello School of Psychology, The University of Birmingham |
| | Workshop B | Using Community Institutions such as Mosques and Madrassas in Tier 1 treatment pathway Insights from the MIMS project, empowering Imams, Mosque Management and Madrassa Teachers | Dr Iftkhar Hussain – Project Coordinator Dr Musharaff Hussain – Director of Karrima Institute |
| Workshops C & D | |
| | Workshop C | Treatment and Aftercare a culturally sensitive approach - Looking at ways in engaging Drug users into treatment and maintaining them on the care pathway. | Shaukat Warraich - Director RSFI Harun Miah - NAFAS East London Bangladeshi Drugs Project Urfan Azad - BASIAN Reading |
| | Workshop D | Drugs, young people & schools Peer education and insights and approaches from the DRM project in Birmingham and the national youth involvement project. | Rawaad Mahyub - Project coordinator Andrew Brown - Mentor UK |
