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RTCI 1 NEWS

RTCI 2: COMMUNITY MAGAZINE

HOW CREATIVE IS YOUR COMMUNITY? - FILL THIS SPACE

RTCI 3: TALK AND LISTEN

1. Features

A Visit to

SUGRIZIMAS THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY

Lithuania

Anthony Slater talks with:

Valdas Siskus

and

Jaunianas Mincevichius

PROGRAMME

2. Talks and Conferences

HENDERSON HOSPITAL

10th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture

8 September 2006

10th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture

“Sustaining Community - Political Expectations of Change”

Lecturer: Nick Benefield

Respondent: Gwen Adshead

PROGRAMME

HENDERSON HOSPITAL

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS 1947 - 2007

11th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture

6 October 2007

11th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture

“How Therapeutic Community Principles Can Be Applied to Improve Secure Forensic Services”

Lecturer: Anne Aiyegbusi

Respondent: Gary Winship

PROGRAMME

HENDERSON HOSPITAL

12th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture

28 November 2008

12th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture

“Therapeutic Communities: - a natural impulse or evolving technology?”

Lecturer: David Kennard

Respondent: Penny Campling

PROGRAMME

10th International Symposium on Substance Abuse Treatment

11 October 2007

10th International Symposium on Substance Abuse Treatment

"REFORMS, IDEOLOGY AND BEST PRACTICE"

Oslo, 1-3 October 2007

DAY ONE Chair: Edle Ravndal

1. Welcome from Edle Ravndal, and a Musical Surprise: "The Keep Coming Back Band"

2. Anthony Slater, President of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities

3. Rowdy Yates, Executive Director, EWODOR

4. Jens Guslund, Director, Directorate for Health and Social Affairs: "Substance Abuse Problems in Norway: Reforms, ideology and best practice"

5. Prof. George De Leon, Centre for Therapeutic Community Research (NDRI), USA: "Ideology in a Maturing Science of Addiction: Some Insights from Four Decades of Therapeutic Community Research and Treatment"

6. Dr. Sverre Nesvåg, Director of the International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), Norway: "The Norwegian Substance Abuse Treatment Reform: Between New Public Management and Conditions for Good Practice"

7. Evening: Jazz, with George DeLeon on saxophone

DAY TWO

Chair: Dr. Gabrielle Welle–Strand

8. Prof. Jan Blomqvist, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), University of Stockholm, Sweden: "From Faith to Knowledge? Reflections on Some Pre-requisites for Evidence Based Addiction Care in Sweden"

9. Prof. Christian Haasen, Institute of Psychiatry, University of Hamburg, Germany: "Cultural Factors in Treatment and Health Policy with Respect to Substance"

10. Kerstin Stenius, Senior lecturer, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, Sweden: "Paternalism Versus Autonomy – Understanding the Position of Compulsory Treatment in Finland and Sweden"

Chair: Vera Segraeus

11. Rowdy Yates: "Bad mouthing, bad habits and bad, bad boys – Part 2"

12. Prof. Eric Broekaert: "A Religion too far. On the hidden ideology of a social therapeutic belief system"

DAY THREE

Chair : Fanny Duckert

13. Prof. Michael Gossop, National Addiction Centre, Kings College, London, U.K: "How does Research Inform Best Practice in Treatment of Addictions?"

14. Prof. Mads Uffe Pedersen, Director / Researcher, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark: "Best Practice in the Real World – and Something About How to Define."

INTERVIEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE

Anthony Slater interviews...

15. George DeLeon

16. Mads Uffe Pedersen and Prof. Håkan Jenner

With comments by Ms. Bente Gulbrandsen, Director of Research and Development, Phoenix Haga, Norway

PROGRAMMES

3. Interviews

Anthony Slater interviewing...

Graduating from the Phoenix Haga Programme, December 1, 2008

PETRA VONDRAKOVA
Clinical Psychologist

MATUS SUCHA
Specialist in Pedagogical Psychology

TEREZA ADAMKOVA
Psychologist

Visiting Phoenix Haga from Charles University, Prague

BOB CAMPBELL

Of Phoenix Futures, and his future

AND

SOURAYA FREM

Of Cenacle De La Lumiere drug rehabilitation center in Lebanon

GEORGE DE LEON

Two recordings on his childhood, education, training, and professional life

AND

JOE WILSON and GEORGE DE LEON

Discuss therapeutic community present and future over a meal

Ko Miyanaga

Reflects on Monar, De Kiem, Phoenix Haga, and the future in Japan

7 minutes

Lisbeth

Returning to Phoenix House Haga with her children after 15 years since graduating

10 minutes

Reflecting on his time at Phoenix Haga (since January 2008)

8 minutes

September 22, 2007

Mountain trip by Phoenix Haga community members and some re-entry members and staff.

Six days and nights hiking and camping in beautiful Norway.

Location: Trollheimen fjell område (mountain region) about 120 kilometers from Trondheim.

Height above sea level up to 1,600 meters.

August 2007

The Interviews

by Jeanette and Renate

PROGRAMME

The Video

PROGRAMME

4. RadioTC International Norsk - Programmes from Norway Radio

• PROGRAMME ONE or: "How many languages can we fit into five minutes and thirty seconds?"

• Anthony Slater (English)
• Hallvard, staff member at Phoenix Haga (Norwegian)
• Sven (American English)
• Nikolas (Norwegian)
• Emir (English, Russian, German & Italian)
• Marius (Mixed Norwegian dialect, part west coast, part east, south and a bit in the middle)

• PROGRAMME TWO

• Emir's journey (på Norsk)

• PROGRAMME THREE Part ONE

• THE WANDERING MICROPHONE: HALLVARD EXPLORES PHOENIX HAGA (in English)
• Hallvard talks with Bjørnstein, Stian, and Marius

• PROGRAMME THREE Part TWO

• Hallvard talks with Henrik and Niklas

• PROGRAMME FOUR

• Professor Håkan Jenner (Special and treatment pedagogics), School of Education, Växjö University, Sweden

and Dr. Ylva Benderix, School of Education, Växjö University.

• PROGRAMME FIVE

• FROM WARM SOUTH TO COLD NORTH: Discovering Phoenix Haga, Norway - Anthony Slater interviews Pedro Moreira

PROGRAMMES

RTCI 4: ARTS, BOOKS AND MUSIC

"Murals, Music and Film at Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility, Perrysville, Ohio

Two projects of Wisconsin-based AVEC: - Arts Vitally Enrich Communities

In these two films, guided by community artists Constance Friesen and M. Tim Friesen of AVEC, the young men in the Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility create a mural and a film about the making of the mural, writing and performing their own songs.

"The mission of Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility is to provide holistic substance abuse treatment services to juvenile offenders in a safe and secure, therapeutic community that promotes right living principles for a drug and crime free existence."

"The artistic philosophy of Community Artists Constance Friesen and M. Tim Friesen begins with the premise of creating "with"....with paint, with music, but most importantly, with the communities."

Film One: "MoJCF - The Story About Our Therapeutic Community"

running time: 10 mins approx

Film begins automatically after click

Film Two: "Food for Thought"

running time: 11 mins approx

Film begins automatically after click

Holly J. Thomas, Recreation Activity Therapy Administrator, Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility writes:

"We invited Tim and Connie to Mohican Juvenile Correctional Facility to head up a mural project. The first completed project is 8X32 ft. and tells a story about our Therapeutic Community. Approximately 168 adjudicated male youth participated in this project. Those youth that preferred not to paint became involved in making a movie showing the process of the mural and putting music to that movie. It was through Tim and Connie’s direction and leadership in painting and songwriting, that the youth were able to express themselves in new ways and create a beautiful work of art. This was accomplished in 4 days."

RTCI 5: "AUDIO DIARY"

1. Personal Diaries

2. Conference Diaries

Global NGO Forum on the 1998-2008 Review of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on illicit drugs, 7th - 9th July 2008

BEYOND 2008 NGO GLOBAL FORUM

held in the Vienna International Centre (Austria), organized by the Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

1. Anthony Slater speaking with Dr. Efren Ramirez

Founder of Phoenix House in New York in 1967, currently the director of Comunidad Terapeutica Ambulatoria de Ocean Park, in Puerto Rico

12 minutes

2. Anthony Slater speaking with Ron Williams

President and CEO of Therapeutic Communities Inc, Stay'n Out New York

2 mins. 9 secs.

3. Anthony Slater speaking with Dr. Jean LaCour

President NET Training Institute, Orlando- Florida USA.

2 mins. 9 secs.

PROGRAMMES

RTCI 6: MAINLY FOR MEMBERS

Association of Thrapeutic Communities

ATC

Tom Harrison

"Chaos Complexity and Therapeutic Communities"

Windsor Conference Guest Lecture

September 5, 2007

introduced by ATC Chair

Chris Holman

PROGRAMME

Audio with PowerPoint presentation

ASSOCIATION OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

September 5, 2007

PROGRAMME

European Federation of Therapeutic Communities

EFTC

Don Mario Picchi,

Founder and President of CeIS, Centro italiano solidarieta di Roma

Speaking upon receipt of the EFTC Award for dedicated and exemplary contribution to therapeutic communities within the international field

VIDEO

- Italian

- Italian, with English Voice Over

3 minutes 30 seconds

CofC

COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES ANNUAL FORUM

2009

A View From Ground Level"

Recorded live at the
School of Oriental and African Studies, London

March 27, 2009

MORNING SESSION

Welcome and Introduction to the Day

18 minutes

Rex Haigh, Project Lead

"Community of Communities Headlines and Highlights"

28 minutes

Sarah Paget, Project Manager

"A View From Ground Level: Service User"

20 minutes

Helen Legg

"A View From Ground Level: Front Line Staff"

28 minutes

Anita Bracey

PROGRAMMES

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

MEMBER PRESENTATIONS

1. HOW CAN COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES HELP WITH RESEARCH?
A Three Way Approach to Collecting Outcome Data

80 minutes

Rex Haigh, Chair

ATC Research Group

2.COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES PARTICIPATION AS THERAPY

79 minutes

Kevin Polley, Arbours Crisis Centre, Chair

1. Examining positive and negative features of service users' involvement in self- and peer- review

Members and Staff from Francis Dixon Lodge

2. Involving Children and Young People - Therapeutic or Not?

Tony Hornby and Glebe House

3. TRAINING FOR THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES: THE "JOURNEYMAN" APPROACH

75 minutes

Raj Kelair, Calcot Services, Chair

1. Learning Through Apprenticeship

Emma Pyle and Christina Vergara, Community Housing and Therapy

2. An Introduction to European Companionship in Education, Training and Travel

Georges van der Straten, Trempoline Therapeutic Community

4. MEETING STATUTORY AND ORGANISATIONAL DEMANDS: A MASTER CLASS

64 minutes

Kirk Turner, Ministry of Justice, Chair

1. Chris Holman, Director of York Retreat and Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities

2. Bob Campbell and Dan Richter, Special Projects Officer and Head of Quality for Phoenix Futures

3. Kevin Gallagher, Chief Executive of Bryn Melyn Care Ltd. and Chair of Charterhouse Group

5. INFORMAL TIME: IS IT NECESSARY FOR BEING A THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY?

:Hayley Brown, Diverse Pathways, Chair

1.A View from a Residential Therapeutic Community "

Members and Staff from the Cassel Hospital

2. A View from a Day Therapeutic Community

Members and Staff from Oxford TC

6. ILLUSTRATED COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES

An opportunity to reflect visually on your TC's relationship with the Community of Communities

Ruth Merriman and members of St.Andrews Therapeutic Community

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FINAL SESSION

COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES DEBATE:

"This house proposes that a TC is not a TC unless community members (staff and clients) are involved in staff interviews"

30 minutes

Rex Haigh, Chair

Proposed by:

Rowdy Yates

Andy Brooker

Opposed by:

Emcee Chekwas

Matt Vince

PLENARY

14 minutes

Rex Haigh, Chair

PROGRAMMES

RTCI 7: SPOTLIGHT ON...

RTCI 7

Sociotherapy

4 March 2009

Sociotherapy
A talk about the change processes used at Fraser House, a Therapeutic Community in North Ryde Hospital on the Sydney North Shore, Australia, 1959 to 1968

Dr. Les Spencer

55 mins.

RTCI 7

Research

23 May 2007

The Cassel Hospital c. 1921-1930: A unique British mental health institution

4. Akinobu Takabayashi, Research Student at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, discussing his research on the Cassel Hospital. From the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

10 mins. 23 secs.

10 May 2007

"Relationship Versus Authority: Psychiatric Social Work, Therapeutic Communities, and the Subjectivity of the Child, c1930 - c1970"

3. Dr. Jonathan Toms, Wellcome Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick University, discusses his current research during a visit to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in Gloucestershire.

7 mins. 33 secs.

RTCI 8: GUEST CHANNEL

Child Care History Network (CCHN)

Inaugural Conference

October 23rd, 2008

Barns Conference Centre

Planned Environment Therapy Trust

Toddington, Gloucestershire

"CHILD CARE: THE NEED FOR HISTORY"

Purpose of the Conference

• To bring together a diverse range of individuals concerned in different ways - personal, professional, vocational - with child care and its history and future
• To help to develop a mutual awareness and understanding of their various personal and professional interests, perspectives, issues, concerns, and language
• To help set the agenda for the Network's priorities and work for the next five years
• And, of course: To enjoy the occasion, and one another's company

PROGRAMME

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