Field Interventions

  • Partnership
    • The common field interventions are managed by Techno plus. Techno Plus is a peer project based in Paris and having a 15-year experience in Harm Reduction in recreational settings. Techno Plus, in 2009, is 63 field interventions, 130 000 leaflets diffused, 600 000 visits on our website, 117 participants in training sessions related to harm reduction in recreational settings and 11 000 hours of voluntary work.

      In 2011, the intervention team has included participants from: Drug Scouts, Techno Plus, Energy Control, Modus Vivendi, Check In, Jellinek, ChEck iT!, Le Tipi, Psychologist Without Borders, UNIPD, Safer Festival, The Regione Emilia Romagna, ORA25.

  • Context
    • Every summer, many “electronic music” festivals (legal or illegal) take place all around Europe. These events are spaces where young people, from all Europe, come during their holidays and take more risks linked to their recreational practices (drug use, sex, hearing risks…) than usual, driven as they are by the context of summer holidays in a foreign country. This means more incidents like corporal accidents, HIV and HCV contaminations, bad trips…

      Usually, in those events, there are no NGO actions for harm reduction.
  • Objectives
    • The general objective of this WP is to promote well-being within recreational settings by implementing health promotion actions in 6 summer European festivals.

      The intervention team, made up with professionals and peers from the different partners, will provide adapted responses to partygoers mobility and cultures, in order to increase harm reduction behaviours and to reduce crisis situations.

      The organizers and local authorities will be involved in this harm reduction responses and given more responsibility through training and guideline production.

      The selection of the festivals aims at extending responses to new member states. We will initiate and support emerging harm reduction in nightlife setting projects to contribute to the creation of new NGOs among regions and countries where such projects are needed.
  • Methodology and Timetable
    • We aim at creating a joint intervention team formed by peers taken among the different partners who will organize 6 harm reduction interventions in big European “Techno” events.
      In 2011, the teams was involved in the Fusion Festival (Germany) and the Transylvania Calling (Romania).

      For 2012, we plan to intervene at 2 big summer festivals, probably the Boom Festival (Portugal) and another festival in eastern Europe.

      These common interventions are a perfect opportunity for the different partners both to follow their national target groups and diffuse harm reduction tools and information in their languages and, on the other hand, to raise awareness of the local partygoers/organisers on party-related risks.

      The project takes into account the drug use cultures. Moreover, the participating field NGOs are based on peer projects issued from party scenes or involving peers so that the responses are based on the culture, knowledge and customs of the target group.

      This work will be based on a multidisciplinary approach: supporting individual harm reduction strategies (peer educators and health professionals) and improving safer settings by involving festival organizers and staff.

      The intervention teams will apply quality standards of intervention and be trained accordingly (participation in the 3 project seminars). Harm reduction leaflets in local languages and in English will be produced at each event (See the interesting docs category)

  • Participants info
    • For the 2012 summer interventions, we plan to intervene at (not confirmed at this moment):

      - Inter 1: Boom Festival (Portugal) - Intervention: July 27th to August 4th (Event: July 28th to August 4th, http://boomfestival.org/boom2012/)

      - Inter 2: Festival to be confirmed in Eastern Europe       – Intervention: end of August / beginning of September

      Possibilities for new partners to join

      The       WP8 is open to all volunteers from European NGOs and peer projects working in the field of harm reduction within recreational settings. Also people from countries/cities where no harm reduction party project is established yet are welcome to apply. However, there should be already plans in progress to set up a harm reduction party work project/group in your city(ask work package managers for details if not sure).
           
      A training session for the team members will be organized each year during the project seminar (in May).       For 2012, the session will take place during the project seminar in Budapest from the 3rd (in the evening) to the 6th of May 2012. For more info about the training sessions click here.

      Projects who wants to take part in the training and intervention have to become collaborating partner of the NEWIP.

      For 2012, the participation of 25 people is paid by the project (travel and accommodation for training session and intervention).

      Team member´s selection process
      The selection of the candidates will be made regarding different criteria:
      • Be a volunteers or maximum a part time workers no more than 15h a week,
      • Good english communication and writing skills,
      • Basic knowledge about harm reduction drug work is preferable,
      • Experience in intervention work (not for new project),
      • Be available full time for the training session (3rd (in the evening) to 6th of May 2012),
      • Be available for all the duration of the intervention,
      • Be willing to follow up evaluation/production process after intervention
      Our objective is to create a “coherent” team, regarding the specificity of the event and the services we will need to implement. Also, the selection of the participants will be made in order to facilitate access to new/emerging projects from new EU member states.

      To apply, the candidates have to fill in the application form and to send it back by email to coordination@technoplus.org and training@drugscouts.de before the 8th of March 2012.

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  • Interesting documents