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Conference focuses on our Youth At Risk

For Release Upon Receipt - June 4, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – Collaboration among government, business, teachers and parents is critical to properly address crime and violence in our nation’s schools. This is the view of the Trinidad and Tobago Youth Project (TTYP) that targets at risk youth in our nation.

Funded by the Trinidad and Tobago Research and Development Impact (RDI) Fund, under The University of the West Indies (UWI), the TTYP will bring leaders in business, government, education and community development together for The UWI At Risk Youth Conference on June 17, 2013 at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Port of Spain to deal with “Defining the Problem and Developing Solutions: Youth Intervention Strategies to Reduce Crime and Violence to Improve Outcomes for the Individual, the Schools, and the Family.”

School crime and violence are now national development, national security and national health care imperatives and therefore require a co-operative stance by all - government sectors, businesses, teachers and parents. Government and agency policy makers, social workers, mental health professionals, business leaders, community relations and community development specialist, youth workers, teachers and educational administrators are especially encouraged to attend this conference. The conference will brief participants on TTYP’s work to date and its “Analysis of Intervention and Counselling for At Risk Youth To Reduce Crime, Violence And To Improve Outcomes For The Individual, The Schools, and The Family”.

Key speakers include Dr. Kevin Favor, Chairman, Psychology Department of Lincoln University; Catherine Kumar, President of the Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Sandra Celestine, UWI Lecturer and Project Principal Investigator and Dr. Shelton Jefferson, Project Co-Investigator.

The conference, which begins at 8.00 a.m., costs TT$600 for professionals and TT$300 for students. Registration information can be obtained from Rachel D’Arceuil at 662-2002 Ext. 82539 or via email at rachel.d’arceuil@sta.uwi.edu. For an updated conference programme, please visit www.atriskyouthtt.com.

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About The UWI-Trinidad and Tobago Research and Development Impact (RDI) Fund

The RDI Fund supports projects that address pressing development challenges and that will achieve recognizable and substantive impact in the short and medium term (3-5 years).  Emphasis will be placed on: multi-disciplinary research, collaboration and strategic partnerships, participation of PhD students and/or post-doctoral researchers, a focus on research-directed action and impact on policy, practice, products and/or services, contribution to shaping the intellectual discourse on a policy issue of national/regional importance, knowledge dissemination and stakeholder engagement. Through the methodological approach and execution of its projects, the RDI Fund expects to foster a greater appreciation in stakeholders, of the value and impact of UWI research, innovation and knowledge transfer.  Log onto http://sta.uwi.edu/rdifund/index.asp for more.

 

About THE UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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