On-going projects in Russia (English)

On-going projects in Russia (English) Health Social Care Partnerships (HSCP) Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova UK On-Going Projects: Russia Back RUS002/2 Training/Re-Training of Managers of Health Care Oriented to Meet the Needs of the Health of Population Russian Partner: Association of Educational Programmes in Health UK Partner: Imperial College, School of Management, London Contact: Rifat Atun, r.atun@ic.ac.uk The aim of this project is to improve the quality, availability and efficacy of primary health care to poor people. The project will train/retrain managers of health care in line with existing international standards in management, economics, public health, marketing, legislation and psychology of health. A training course will be established using the resources of the Association of Educational Programmes in Health Administration with support from the Imperial College, School of Management, London. The project expects to train primary care managers in Moscow region. RUS004/2 Improving Quality of Primary Health Care in Russia Russian Partner: Russian Association on Thrombosis, Homeostasis and Vascular Pathology UK Partner: Cranfield University Contact: Peter Dickenson, r.p.dickenson@cranfield.ac.uk The aim of this project is to increase the efficiency of primary care provision by introducing quality management methods. This will be achieved by conducting a pilot implementation of a quality management system at a polyclinic in Moscow. RUS006 Promoting Health and Well-Being amongst Disadvantaged Youth Groups at Risk in Moscow Russian Partner: AIDS Infoshare (SPID), Moscow UK Partner: The Pearl Trust Contact: Mike Hartland, mch.harb.scot@blueyonder.co.uk A pilot programme in Moscow targeting vulnerable youth groups, educators, health and social care providers with the goal of promoting health and well-being and the reduction of communicable illnesses and trauma among homeless youth and orphans through increased access to health information and quality, user-friendly social support services. RUS007 Partnership for Childcare and Fostering Russian Partner: The Childcare Research and Training Centre, Christian Solidarity, Moscow UK Partner: Christian Solidarity Worldwide, UK Contact: Heather Spencer, HeatherSpencer@csw.org.uk The project proposes twinning foster carers and child care social workers in Moscow and Dudley, with a view to sharing good practice and aiding the development of foster care and work with birth families in crises. There will be an emphasis on developing quality family-based care for children with disabilities and other special needs. As the Moscow foster care service provides training for other pilot foster care services throughout Russia, there will be ample opportunity for cascading information gained through this project. RUS008/2 School for Leaders of Mental Health Patients' Self-Help Groups Russian Partner: Public Initiatives on Psychiatry, Moscow UK Partner: GAMIAN-Europe Contact: Rodney Elgie, rodneyelgie@supanet.com This project aims to improve the quality life for patients with mental health problems. The project proposes to establish a school for group leaders. During the course of two years they will provide quarterly educational courses, which include workshops and training. Every course will educate 10-12 persons. At the end of the course participants are to start a new self-help group. Leaflets and booklets with necessary materials about self-help group's management and activity will be published. We plan to disseminate our experience (over the Internet and mass media) to stimulate such activity in other regions of Russian. We hope that the end of the project will establish an independent public movement. RUS012/2 Developing Tools for Assessing and Teaching Child Development in the 0-3 Age Group Russian Partner: Chair of Nursing in Paediatrics, Russian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Moscow UK Partner: St. Mary�s NHS Trust Contact: Kathryn Jones, Kathryn.Jones@St-Marys.nhs.uk The aim of this project is to develop and implement an education and training system for nurses in order that they can assess and evaluate the psychomotor development of infants and children at an early stage and so that they can appropriately refer children to other institutions for specialised integration, medico-psychological and pedagogical rehabilitation. This will impact on the social integration of these children. An algorithm will be developed to be used at ambulatory clinics and in hospitals. It will incorporate how to asses child development, analyse the observations, detect deviations, liaise with medial specialists and refer children on for treatment. RUS018/2 Clubhouse Employment Project Russian Partner: Centre for Social Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill Russian House UK Partner: Bridge House - Clubhouse Mosaic Clubhouse International Centre for Clubhouse Development (ICCD) Contact: Claire Smith, members@ipswichclubhouse.freeserve.co.uk The aim of this project is to introduce the �Clubhouse� employment programme to Moscow. This will be done through Centre for Social Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill �Russian House�. The programme supports the employment of the mentally disabled within the �Clubhouse� model of psycho-social rehabilitation. The project will look to adapt this approach to the Russian social, economic and legal environment, and then disseminate this amongst social care and employment services in Moscow and Russia. Project activities include training for people from �Russian House� in the UK, the development of a full-value employment programme and the dissemination of gained experience among other social and employment services in Russia. RUS020 Multi-Disciplinary Team Led Care for Neurologically Disabled Patients Russian Partner: Pavlov�s St. Petersburg City Medical University UK Partner: St. George�s Hospital Medical School Contact: Pauline Monro, paulinemonro@compuserve.com The project aims to complete the training required for nurses and occupational therapists in multidisciplinary teams, which have been established as a result of previous projects (funded by HSPS). These currently serve as model teaching centres, caring for neurologically disabled patients in hospital and rehabilitation centres, and more recently, at home, and to facilitate the spread of this good practice. The project is specifically targeted to meet existing deficiencies agreed by both partners. It consists of exchange visits by key personnel, to include teaching sessions and work experience in the relevant settings in both countries. The project aims to ensure the highest standards of professional multidisciplinary care will be replicated. Training will also be provided to enable the setting up of a clinic offering continence advice, and to facilitate immunological diagnosis of common neurological disorders. RUS023 TOPS - Togliatti Outreach Project for HIV/STI Prevention Amongst Sex Workers Russian Partner: Parents Against Drugs, Togliatti UK Partner: IC Consultants (ICON), Imperial University Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, k.sullivan@imperial.ac.uk The aim of the project is to provide an urgent and vital response to the alarming rise in HIV and STIs amongst Togliatti City�s �hidden populations�, by giving commercial sex workers (CSWs) greater access to sexual health information, support and clinical services. To meet this aim, the partners will launch an outreach service targeted exclusively to CSWs, modelled along the lines of the Praed Street Project (St Mary�s Hospital). This unique initiative, TOPS, will: Provide training in community outreach work and provision of appropriate and attractive sexual health and advice services for CSWs Contact CSWs directly on the streets and at other places of work, assess their needs and offer professional advice, counselling and support Give CSWs practical support by providing condoms, free STI clinical services, information leaflets and condom negotiation skills so that they can take effective steps to protect their sexual health Attempt to alter sex workers� attitudes to formal STI services and encourage improved health seeking behaviour Provide an appropriately equipped Outreach Team Support Centre for meetings, ongoing training and support, and assess the feasibility of developing this site into a friendly and supportive drop-in centre for CSWs. RUS024 Improving the Quality of and Expanding Medical and Social Assistance to the Under-Privileged in the Kirovsky Administrative District of St Petersburg Russian Partner: St. Petersburg Medical College No 2 UK Partner: Liverpool John Moores University Contact: Jane Jacks, janejacks13@hotmail.com The main goal of the project is to organize comprehensive medical and social aid to underprivileged elderly people of the Kirovsky district of Saint Petersburg by coordinating the activities of state medical, social and educational institutions. The project aims at: improving the professional knowledge and skills of public health and social sphere workers of the Kirovsky district of Saint Petersburg by organizing extra training. developing a strategy for interaction of medical, social and educational institutions with the municipal authorities. looking for the opportunities of system reforms to improve the living standard of the underprivileged. looking for and introducing new forms of medical and social support of the underprivileged elderly people in the Kirovsky district of Saint Petersburg. extending the gained experience to other regions of Saint Petersburg and Russia. RUS026 The Developing of a Model of the Improvement of Perinatal Care: Introduction of Evidence-Based Medicine and Perinatal Audit in Ijevsk Russian Partner: The Research Centre for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow UK Partner: Department of Obstetrics, University of Edinburgh Contact: Gill McIlwaine, gillian.mcilwaine@which.net The project aims to improve maternal, neonatal health and reproductive health services. The main focus of the project will be paid to promoting evidence-based and cost-effective reproductive health care. Clinically and cost-effective perinatal programme will be developed for Ijevsk (Udmurtia Republic) which is a pilot region with rather high rate of perinatal mortality now. RUS029 Ivanovo Elderly Care Training Russian Partner: Ivanovo City Administration UK Partner: Staffordshire County Council Contact: Jane Kennedy, jane.kennedy@staffordshire.gov.uk Staffordshire County Council will facilitate Ivanovo City Administration to develop training for elderly care practitioners by introducing tailored training programmes based on NVQ levels 2, 3 and care management. The three practitioners will be trained in the UK, then they will deliver the training programme to five care managers, ten senior care practitioners and 15 basic care practitioners. The results of the project, including its potential for other Russian Authorities will be disseminated through a joint conference, to the wider Russian Community. RUS030 Ivanovo Detached Youth Worker Training Russian Partner: Ivanovo City Administration UK Partner: Staffordshire County Council Contact: Jane Kennedy, jane.kennedy@staffordshire.gov.uk The Staffordshire County Council will facilitate work in the city of Ivanovo with disaffected and socially excluded young people through the introduction of a detached/outreach youth work approach. Two specialists from the Ivanovo City Administration and two from the Ivanovo State University will be trained to deliver a programme of training for prospective part-time and volunteer detached/outreach workers in Ivanovo. The results of the project will be presented at a conference to the wider Russian Community. RUS032 Integrated Management of Reproductive Health Programmes: Scientific, Methodical and Legal Basis Russian Partner: Charitable Foundation of Culture and Health Development UK Partner: North West Hospital NHS Trust Contact: Peter Kennedy, Peter.Kennedy@nwlh.nhs.uk Elena Andriouchina, ipkat@msk.net.ru The project aims to co-ordinate joint activity of different departments to overcome the disconnection and separation of reproductive health measures of different social, health and educational institutions at city, Okrug and municipal level. The project goal is to develop integrated model of joint activity on reproductive health and reproductive women rights protection according to �Health for All� principles within the base of North-East Okrug Prefecture in Moscow. RUS033 Physiotherapy in Russia - Phase 2 Russian Partners: Pavlov St. Petersburg City Medical University (Department of Physical Methods of Treatment and Sports Medicine), and Early Intervention Institute of St. Petersburg UK Partner: University of East London Contact: Sarah Beeston, s.beeston@uel.ac.uk The aim of the project is the establishment of a post-graduate physiotherapy programme for doctors. Members of a core Russian doctors� group will be introduced to the education and practice of physiotherapy in the UK. Partners from both countries will develop a curriculum of study for a post-graduate programme in physiotherapy. Then lectures and clinicians from the UK will contribute to the delivery of the first course and will work alongside staff from St. Petersburg who will act as contributors in their specialist areas. RUS034 Preventive Support Centre for Young People Russian Partner: Cheliabinsk City Public Organisation - Independent Research Centre �There is an Opinion� UK Partner: Notts. County Council, Community Services Dept, Youth Community and Play Services - Project �R.U.S.H.� Contact: Peter Harrison, peter.harrison@nottscc.gov.uk The aim of the project is HIV/AIDS, Drug and STD prevention amongst socially excluded young people (from families experiencing social problems, orphans, school children at risk of exclusion from school and young females) from the Metallurgical District of Chelyabinsk. This will be achieved by the opening and operation of a preventative support centre for young people and offering a range of free services, e.g. social, legal, medical and psychological counselling. RUS035/2 Assisting Bereaved Children in St. Petersburg Russian Partner: Institute of Special Pedagogics and Psychology (Raoul Wallenburg Institute) UK Partner: Children�s Legal Centre Contact: Rachel Harvey, armedcon@essex.ac.uk The project is designed to improve the situation for bereaved children, primarily in St. Petersburg, by ensuring that both psychological and practical assistance is delivered to children and their families through local government and NGO social services. One of the basic aims is to ensure that children who have been bereaved either remain in their own family setting or are transferred to other appropriate family environments instead of being institutionalised. A pilot scheme will be run in the Primorskiy District, focusing on the needs of the families and primarily their children who have contact with Lakhta Hospice. RUS036/2 Creation of the New Model for the Continuing Medical Education in General Practice Russian Partner: St. Petersburg Medical Academy for Post Graduate Studies UK Partner: University College London Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-Professional Education Contact: Lesley Southgate, lesley.southgate@dial.pipex.com The aim of the project is to establish the system of the distance education for the general practitioners in Russia. The Russian Health Care Reform places special emphasis on creating functioning system of general practitioners and empowering them. The improvement of Women�s Health, which plays an important role in sustaining health in population, will be used to develop the model. The project will survey women aged 18-64 of the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg regarding their preferences for educational approaches and materials develop a health promotion and disease prevention program for the health professions develop educational materials and disseminate them to individual women or groups as appropriate develop curriculum on women's health create and test the validity and reliability of instruments for teaching quality assessment assess distance learning effectiveness using the Russian family physician journal as the instruction medium develop model using both electronic and printed instructional media for distance learning. RUS037 Support to Ex-Prisoners and Tuberculosis Patients in Dzerzinsk Russian Partner: Returning to Freedom UK Partner: Merlin Contact: Tim Grimble, Tim.Grimble@merlin.org.uk Alex Brans, alex.brans@merlin.org.uk This project aims to provide training and technical assistance to the Dzerzinsk Tuberculosis (TB) Dispensary in modern methods of tuberculosis control, and to provide social support to the most vulnerable TB patients in Dzerzinsk, including ex-prisoners. Training and technical assistance will be provided by Merlin to the Dzerzinsk TB Dispensary based on its extensive experience in TB control in Tomsk Oblast, Western Siberia. Returning to Freedom will draw on their experience in the rehabilitation, social and legal support of ex-prisoners within the framework of this project. This support will be extended to other socially vulnerable TB patients in the region and it is anticipated that this project will act as a pilot project for the rest of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and other regions of the Russian Federation. RUS038 Physiotherapy Training Programme Russian Partner: Ural State Medical Academy UK Partner: University of Northumbria at Newcastle North Tyneside General Hospital Contact: Colin Chandler, colin.chandler@unn.ac.uk The goal of the project is to introduce new physiotherapy methods of treatment for patients with musculoskeletal conditions. Russian trainers and practicing doctors of Sverdlovsk region will be trained. A post-graduate training programme and system of distance learning will be established for physiotherapy doctors in the Sverdlovsk region. RUS039/2 The Language of Friendship Russian Partner: Association for Social Protection to Disabled Children Croatian Partner: SUVAG Polyclinic for Rehabilitation of Hearing and Speech Contact: Mladen Lovric, Zagreb@suvag.hr , majlovri@globalnet.hr The aim of this project is to optimise the rehabilitation of children with hearing and speech problems. Removing the language barrier allows children to participate and integrate more fully in society. The project uses the verbo-tonal system of speech rehabilitation developed more that 40 years ago in Croatia and used at the SUVAG Centre (Zagreb). It uses a combination of sound, visual aids, vibration and other senses to help develop speech. The method is used worldwide and found to be very effective, especially for young children. The project will include training of personnel and setting up a centre in Samara. RUS040 The British-Russian Partnership for Improving the Russian Model of Assistance to Children with Incurable Oncology Diseases and Their Families Russian Partner: Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation �The First Hospice for Children with Oncology Diseases� UK Partner: East Anglia�s Children�s Hospices Contact: Graham Butland, graham.butland@each.org.uk The project is aimed at improving the life of children with incurable oncology diseases and their families. The project includes visits by Russian specialists to the UK to get acquainted with the organisation of hospice service and care to be provided to terminally ill children; training for Moscow infantile hospice personnel; development and publication of guidelines for personnel and parents nursing a child in poor condition at home and Russian-British conference �Hospice for children with oncology diseases. Theory. Practice�. RUS041 Work-Based Community Mental Health Care in Pervouralsk Russian Partner: NGO Uspekh UK Partner: The BEARR Trust Contact: Noah Birksted-Breen, info@bearr.org.uk The project looks for the ways of elevating the stigma around those suffering from mental health problems. It aims at developing a scheme of work-based rehabilitation for those recovering from mental health problems. The project will provide educational and management training to managers who will be dealing with those recovering from mental health problems; placement in work-based rehabilitation for those recovering from mental health problems; develop community based initiatives. RUS043 Developing a Network for Child Protection in Russia Russian Partner: Charity Foundation �Protection of Children from Abuse� UK Partner: The BEARR Trust Contact: Noah Birksted-Breen, info@bearr.org.uk This project is to disseminate the Distance Learning Pack for professionals working with children at risk in Moscow, Samara and Chelyabinsk. Such dissemination will raise awareness of child protection issues and possibilities of organised response to these issues among professionals and public officials. Two experienced child protection workers from OZON and two UK consultants will provide seminars for professionals working with children who will subsequently deliver cascade training in their regions. RUS044 The Creation of a Model for Social and Medical Home Care for the Elderly to Be Used by NGOs Russian Partner: Regional Charity for Help to the Elderly �Good Action� UK Partner: Age Concern Eastbourne Contact: Richard Drinkall, Richard.Drinkall@ageconcern.org.uk The aim of the project is to create a model for social and medical home-care for the elderly which can be used by NGOs bringing together the experience of Russian and British partners. The model will be made available in a manual �Organising NGO social and medical home care for the elderly' to be published and distributed amongst Moscow and regional NGOs working in the area of care for the elderly. �Good Action� will also put into practice the model of care that has been created for the care of its clients in Moscow. RUS045 Reducing Hospital Acquired Infection in Togliatti and Improving Availability of Microbiology Services Russian Partner: Togliatti Municipal Healthcare Department UK Partner: HealthProm Contact: Judith Sedgwick, judith_sedgwick@hotmail.com Stewart Britten, StewartBritten@aol.com This project aims at revising the current practice of dealing with in-hospital infections by shifting the resources of microbiology laboratory from environmental surveillance to meeting clinical needs. The project intends to use an evidence-based cost-effective approach to epidemiological service provision. It also intends to transfer the knowledge gained to improve current standards used by the Central Institute of Epidemiology. RUS046 Hand of Help Russian Partner: Mothers Against Drugs UK Partner: Broadway Lodge Contact: Peter Smith, petersmith@broadwaylodge.org.uk The aim of the project is to establish and develop support groups for drug addicts and alcoholics and their families. This includes the training of health and social work professionals through workshops and seminars to educate and support them in developing new attitudes and approaches to the �treatment� of this issue. Professionals will, in turn, train volunteers to provide basic counselling to people needing additional and continued support and to create a wider network of services through different entry points across the region. RUS048/2 Capacity Building for a More Effective Russian Midwifery Profession Russian Partner: Inter-Regional League of Midwives of Russia UK Partner: HealthProm Contact: Greta Beresford, healthprom@healthprom.org The overall aim of the partnership is to establish high standards of midwifery practice in Russia by setting of specific quality targets, which will in time help reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The project will build the capacity of the Russian partner and strengthen their voice as advocates for a defined professional role for midwives based on international definitions with high standards of midwifery education, practical training and practice. The project will seek to increase awareness within the Ministry of Health in the contribution that a well-educated midwifery workforce can make a difference to both mothers and babies. The Russian partner will instigate a review by the Ministry looking into the midwifery curriculum and in providing education and practical teaching for midwife teachers. The Russian partner will enhance the capacity for research in data collection and analysis and use this information towards recommendation of improvements in the service. RUS049 Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation Programme for Burned Children in Russia Russian Partner: Charitable Foundation Children's Hospital UK Partner: Friends of Russian Children (formerly The Children�s Burn Trust) Contact: Nigel Gilbert-Harris, cfbt@cfbt.demon.co.uk The goal of the project is to set up an effective and sustainable system of social and psychological rehabilitation for burned children. The programme will be introduced in the Speransky Children's Hospital in Moscow and work will include the development of the following components: psychological and social support, the establishment of an outreach programme for children and careers following hospital treatment, the monitoring of burned orphaned children, and the establishment of Burns Club/Camps. Medical staff of the Speransky Hospital will be trained in providing psychological support to burned children and their parents. The results of the project will be disseminated to specialists from the Russian regions by means of a two-day seminar. RUS050/2 Access to Teaching Methodology for Drugs and Alcohol Awareness Trainers Russian Partner: Innovations UK Partner: Children in Crisis Contact: Linda Cook, lindaC@childrenincrisis.org.uk This project aims to provide drug and alcohol awareness programmes in secondary schools in St. Petersburg and to develop a drug and alcohol awareness programme for �street� children using drop-in centres and other institutions. The project will train two Russian drug educators in the UK who will then be able to work within schools and train other educators. UK experts will also work with drug educators to develop skills and methods to work on drug awareness issues with street children. The results of the project will then be disseminated by means of a publication and a professional seminar for health practitioners and policy makers in Russia. RUS051 Strengthening Community-Based Care Services for Older People in Moscow Russian Partner: Moscow Red Cross UK Partner: Age Concern England Contact: Stephanie Harland, HarlanS@ACE.org.uk The project will support the development of the established Moscow Red Cross �Home Nursing Service�, which provides health and social care at home to isolated older people living in Moscow. The project will contribute to the development of care for an ageing population with increased needs for health and social care, and will improve the quality and mix of services available to support older people in Moscow who are experiencing poverty and isolation. RUS052 Promoting and Improving Health in Tver�s Penal System Russian Partner: Russian NGO �Your Choice� UK Partner: Ayrshire Arran NHS Board, The Vision Thing, and Her Majesty�s Prison Kilmarnock Contact: Mike Titterton, miketitterton@hotmail.com The aim of this project is to improve the poor health record of Tver�s penal system and to promote health awareness prevention among key target groups, including prisoners, staff, other professionals and policy-makers. The project will aim to reduce the rates of new HIV/STD infection by developing a prevention programme; that will include: measuring needs assessment among prisoners and staff, developing a training programme, development and production of training materials and establishing information centres in three prisons in the Tver region. If successful this will be scaled to cover all ten prisons of Tver Oblast. RUS054 Exchange Partnership in Child Care Planning Russian Partner: The Child Care Research and Training Centre UK Partner: Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council Dudley Foster Care Association Contact: Shirley Jackson, shirleyjackson@CSW.org.uk The project�s goal is to develop a new child protection model in the Moscow Central Prefecture which incorporates family support services and to aid the development of the requisite skills for implementation of the model in all those involved in the process. The project will provide examples of good practice in child care planning, family support work and specialist foster care. The project�s activities will include: the translation and adaptation of the Framework for Assessment and a conference in Moscow and seminar in the UK to present new assessment procedure and to show how it works in practice. There will also be exchange visits to promote learning about child care planning and inter-agency working, to analyse approaches to developing child care planning in order to achieve the balance between child protection and family support. Finally the project will conduct a conference for specialists from Russian regions and Moscow Upravas in order to disseminate the project results. RUS057 Physical Rehabilitation in the Educational Establishments of St. Petersburg Russian Partner: State educational special school for secondary education Dynamica Rehabilitation Centre with Individual Tuition St. Petersburg Institute of Early Intervention Dept of Adaptive Physical Culture, Lesgaft State Academy of Physical Culture UK Partner: EveryChild Contact: Joanna Baskott, jo.baskott@everychild.org.uk The overriding aim of this project is to improve the quality of rehabilitation services available within educational establishments to children with motor disabilities. This will be done through the implementation of an active approach to rehabilitation and the development of modern skills, working methods and principles of efficiency assessment within of these establishments. In long-term the project will enhance the quality of life for children with motor disabilities. The project activities will include the development of a study curriculum, training courses and seminars for the representatives of 12 institutions. There will also be a visit to the UK for Russian trainers and two conferences to disseminate the results of the project. RUS058/2 Bridging the Gap Russian Partner: The Take Care Foundation UK Partner: The Pearl Trust Contact: Mike Harland, mch.harb.scot@blueyonder.co.uk The project will focus on the women�s penal colony in Chelyabinsk Oblast and explore with staff and inmates the opportunities for change. It will achieve this by looking at the terms of sentencing and opportunities of modernising the law, alternatives to custody and local support, effective regime management and improved cross-boundary education and training/social advice programmes. All the programme elements are aimed at reducing the risk of re-offending. A focus group will be set up for HIV-positive women and their children whose problems are frequently compounded by stigma and lack of available treatment. These women will be the core group for a programme of throughcare and aftercare support provided by newly trained Take Care Foundation staff and volunteers. RUS059 Coaching Social Work Teachers and Managers of Social Agencies in the Sverdlovsk Oblast to Improve the Learning Experience of the Social Work Student while on Practical Placement Russian Partner: Urals State University British Partner: Microdisk Limited Contact: Jane Penn, penski@btinternet.com The aim of the project is to enable social work teachers, agency personnel and social work students to improve their capacity to link theory to practice. The purpose of this is to ensure that students have a fully integrated training experience to enable them to provide professional care to service users who are impoverished and experiencing a range of other social and health problems. The project will also include agencies that work with the most vulnerable groups of society. This will be achieved by providing a series of training modules over a two-year period, which will include experiential classroom training and on-site supervision. A team of consultants from UK Universities and the Kiev Mohyla Academy (KMA), where consultants in supervision have undertaken the three-year DFID coaching programme, will be responsible for providing this training. By the end of the project it is anticipated that the social work teachers and agency managers will have achieved a better understanding of their collaborative roles in providing practice placements and will have developed skills in student supervision. RUS061 School-Based AIDS and Drug Use Prevention in Nizhny Novgorod Teenagers Russian Partner: Privolzhsky Okrug AIDS Control and Prevention Centre British Partner: AIDS Education and Research Trust (AVERT) Contact: Annabel Kanabus, info@avert.org The Nizhny Novgorod region takes the 7 th place in Privolzhsky Okrug in HIV spread with almost a twofold increase in the number of HIV-positive teenagers registered in the year 2001. Observations have shown a rapid spread of drug use and accompanying blood infections (HIV, hepatitis B and C) among teenagers. The two-year project is aimed at preventing the spread of HIV, hepatitis and drug use among middle and high school students in the two city districts with the highest number of registered HIV and drugs use cases amongst teenagers. It will develop a programme of raising awareness of AIDS and covering drugs-use prevention topics by taking British and Russian learning materials and using in-class and out-of-class curricular. The programme will be disseminated through 30 schools in Nizhny Novgorod. Teenagers, particularly those from socially vulnerable backgrounds, will get free access to sexual and AIDS education and psychological counselling. This will enable them to develop skills of prognostic behaviour. School psychologists and social counsellors will learn innovative approaches to AIDS/drug use prevention work among teenagers. RUS062 Nelson House Model for Russia Russian Partner: ANO XXI Century Revival British Partner: Nelson House Recovery Trust Contact: Sean Corbett, sean@nelson-house.co.uk During the project implementation twenty Russian specialists will be provided with training on the Nelson House model of abstinence-based treatment, incorporating the 12-step philosophy of recovery. The British organisation will develop the training programme and deliver it in two stages: stage 1 in Russia and stage 2 in UK with seven key personnel. The training will allow the Russian staff to deliver improved quality and effective evidence-based abstinence treatment to drug addicted patients in Podolsk. The project will also teach Russian Local Authority representatives about the social care system relating to drug and alcohol treatment in Gloucestershire and to better understand the needs of a rehabilitation system. The project will help to form a strong partnership and establish a complete system in Russia that will include: three stages of rehabilitation, professionally trained staff and a stable finance system and support from the local authorities. The British partner will gain experience delivering training internationally. RUS064 Strengthening Health Care Planning and Management Capabilities of NGOs Delivering Services to the Vulnerable Groups in St Petersburg Russian Partner: NGO Development Centre (NDC) British Partner: The University of Birmingham Contact: Sanjoy Nayak, s.k.nayak@bham.ac.uk The partnership between the NDC and the UoB aims to improve the quality and stability of NGO Health and Social Care services to vulnerable groups in St. Petersburg via NGO capacity strengthening. This will be achieved through a process of participatory capacity assessment it plans to support development of organisations and their managers in their role as leaders of civil society as well as the projects they execute. It consists of five main activities: Setting-up an NGO management course for St. Petersburg health and social care NGOs (including distance learning support) Training in NGO management and project planning (including TOT and health) for NDC and other staff at UoB Continuous capacity-building consultancy for two chosen NGOs Detailed assessment of �Service Delivery Effectiveness� Publication and dissemination of a course manual and report on Service Delivery Effectiveness RUS067 The Early Detection and Therapeutic Intervention of Perinatal Depression in Sverdlovsk Oblast Russian Partner: Oblast Medical College, Sverdlovsk Oblast British Partner: Microdisc Limited Contact: Jane Penn, penski@btinternet.com Perinatal depression is a problem which is seen often and throughout the world and it may have secondary effects of damaging the mother-child relationship. The aim of this project is to train 10 midwives in Ekaterinburg in the early detection of and therapeutic intervention in perinatal depression. After their initial training the midwives will spend two months working with women whom they have identified as suffering from perinatal depression. This will enable them to adapt the training programme to individual needs and proceed to train all midwives, community health nurses and feldschers in the pilot sites. Additional support for the women identified will be developed in conjunction with at least one local NGO. The objective is to ensure that all women receive the support they need for their emotional and physical health during this important time, thus reducing the number of children with behaviour problems. As resource tool the project will produce and disseminate a handbook for practitioners and a booklet for all new and prospective parents. RUS068 Film: A Child Needs Parents, Not Institutions Russian Partner: The Early Intervention Institute, St Petersburg British Partner: EveryChild Contact: Joanna Baskott, Jo.Baskott@everychild.org.uk A rising number of Russian children are living in institutions and this project aims to build on government and donor initiatives. It has received support from UNICEF and Russian Ministries and targets a root cause of multi-generational problems. It will produce a powerful film which will communicate the importance of young children�s development of attachment to parents. The priority dissemination target groups for this film are policy and decision makers for children. The film will be thoroughly researched through audience research and stakeholder analysis and the first phase, the research phase will build potential dissemination partnerships with many different groups. Additional work extending from this film will be the production of accompanying written materials for a comprehensive video pack and the partnership plans to intensively disseminate the film and materials throughout Russia and the UK. RUS074 Good Start Russian Partner: NGO Novgorod Children�s Centre British Partner: Centre for Research in Early Childhood Contact: Katherine Ritchie, katherineritchie@yahoo.com The project aims to create a model for help and support of families in crisis who have children from 0-3 years old in terms of increasing the quality of life, accessibility and efficiency of social, pedagogical and psychological care for these families. Experts from the UK will train a Russian multi-disciplinary team of up to ten people how to work with families in crisis. Simultaneously, the Russian specialists will begin to help support families through the introduction of special programs in the early identification of families in crisis, effective assessment of the family�s needs, raising awareness in parents and working with the children. The team once trained will be able to disseminate their new skills throughout the Novgorod region. RUS081 EMA: Eurasian Music Award - 2003! Russian Partner: Chelyabinsk City Public Organisation - Independent Research Centre �There Is an Opinion� British Partner: Nottinghamshire County Council, Community Services Department, Youth Community and Play Services - Band Wagon Studio Contact: Andrew Dawson, info@bandwagonstudios.co.uk This is a twelve month programme for young people studying in the Metallurgical District of Chelyabinsk, and will include socially excluded teenagers from families experiencing social problems, orphans, school children at risk of exclusion from school and young females. The aim is to decrease drugs dissemination and high risk behaviour in the field of HIV/AIDS and drugs through the development of alternative leisure activities at the Preventative Support Centre for Young People. Activities will include: musical education, teaching street dance and drama. To achieve its aims the programme will involve visits by British and Russian partners to equip staff and volunteers of the Russian project with the skills to develop alternative leisure activities and hold creative workshops. The programme will also develop and distribute information packs on the targeted subjects. RUS082 Opening School Doors to Deaf Children in Nizhny Novgorod Russian Partner: Nordis School British Partner: The BEARR Trust Contact: Noah Birksted-Breen, info@bearr.org.uk The partners will work together in Nizhny Novgorod to develop a �Teach the Teachers� course, which will pioneer a model of social service provision for deaf and disabled children, responding more flexibly to the needs of the users. The course will be designed within a framework of partnership between governmental and non-governmental agencies, professionals, users and the community. The development of this framework for partnership began in May 2000. BEARR-Nordis will disseminate the results of the project to other cities in Nizhny Novgorod and neighbouring Oblasts. This will raise the awareness of better practice for social service provision for deaf and disabled children and will stimulate social reform for one of Russia�s most disadvantaged groups i.e. disabled children. 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