Day 1 | Day 2

Conference Programme: Day 1

8.15 am

Registration

9.00 am

Opening Performance

9.10 am

Opening Address by by Guest of Honour, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts

9.15 am

Joint Keynote Address by District Judge, Subordinate Courts; Director of Prisons, Singapore Prison Service; and Director, Rehabilitation, Protection and Residential Services Division, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

10.00 am

Tea Break

10.30 am

Plenary 1: Hard Questions about Youth Justice? Radical Surgery Required or Just Some “Nip and Tuck”? (Abstract)
Judge Andrew Becroft

Principal Youth Court Judge, New Zealand

11.15 am

Plenary 2: Community-Based Options in Handling Children at Risk and Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) (Abstract)
Ms Alicia Bala

Undersecretary Department of Social Welfare and Development, and Chairperson, Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council, Philippines

12.00 pm

Question and Answer

12.30 pm

Lunch

2.00 pm

Performance

2.15 pm
Plenary 3: Forensic Psychiatry: The Singapore Context (Abstract)
Dr Stephen Phang

Forensic Psychiatrist, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
3.00 pm
Question and Answer

3.15 pm

Tea Break

3.45 pm

Concurrent Sessions, 5 Streams

a. Shifting the Balance: Community-Based Approaches

  • The New Zealand Experience (Judge Andrew Becroft, Principal Youth Court Judge, New Zealand) (Abstract)
  • GP Works! C.H.O.I.C.E Intervention (Mr Lee Seng Meng & Mrs Wong Cher Meng, Students Care Service) (Abstract)

b. No Revolving Doors: Institutional Care and Reintegration

  • Rehabilitating and Reintegrating Youth Offenders: Are Residential and Community Aftercare Colliding Worlds and What Can Be Done About it? (Associate Professor David Altschuler, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America) (Abstract)
  • Managing and Overcoming ViolencE (MOVE) Programme (Mr Teo Tzee Siong, Singapore Prison Service) (Abstract)

c. Bridging Gaps, Keeping Ties: Partnerships in Community

  • Preventing Juvenile Crime Through Community Partnerships: Developmental Prevention and the Pathways to Prevention Project (Professor Ross Homel, Griffith University, Australia) (Abstract)
  • Family Intervention Team - ‘Bringing Services to the Doorstep’ (Ms Aileen Tan, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Ms Iris Lin, Fei Yue Community Services) (Abstract)

d. Precisely “What Works?”: Targeted Interventions

  • Pathways to Delinquency and Tackling Strategies In Hong Kong (Associate Professor Dennis Wong, City University of Hong Kong) (Abstract)
  • Youth Justice Conferencing (Ms Linda Fielding, Relationships Australia) (Abstract)

e. The Schools of Thought: Studies of Offending

  • Effective Interventions from a Cross-Cultural Typology of Antisocial Behaviour Development During Adolescence (Professor Hugo Morales, Pontifical Catholic University Of Peru) (Abstract)
  • Profiling Local Youth Who Sexually Offend (Ms Jennifer Teoh, Ministry of Community Development,Youth and Sports)
  • Positive Adolescent Sexuality Treatment (PAST) Programme (Ms Janice Tan, Ministry of Community Development,Youth and Sports) (Abstract)

5.15 pm

End

 


Conference Programme: Day 2

8.15 am

Registration

9.00 am

Performance

9.15 am

Plenary 4: Preventing Juvenile Crime Through Community Partnerships: Developmental Prevention and the Pathways to Prevention Project (Abstract)
Professor Ross Homel

Director, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, Australia

10.00 am

Question and Answer

10.15 am

Tea Break

10.45 am

Concurrent Sessions, 5 Streams

a. Shifting the Balance: Community-Based Approaches

  • Community-Based Options in Handling Children at Risk and Children in Conflict with the Law (Ms Alicia Bala, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippines) (Abstract)
  • Parental Incarceration and Children’s Offending Behaviour (Dr Rosaleen Ow, Dr Sudha Nair & Dr Sim Tick Ngee, National University of Singapore) (Abstract)

b. No Revolving Doors: Institutional Care and Reintegration

  • Family Intervention Programme with Trainees at the Reformative Training Centre (RTC) (Dr Cecilia Soong, Lakeside Family Centre (LFC)) (Abstract)
  • The Role of Women as Social Guide in Carrying Out the Guidance for the Correctional Clients (Ms Dina Juliani, Staff Directorate General of Correction, Department of Law and Human Rights of Republik Indonesia) (Abstract)

c. Bridging Gaps, Keeping Ties: Partnerships in Community

  • Community Partnership for At-Risk Youth (Ms Anni Watkin, Youth and Cultural Development (YCD) Youth Services, New Zealand) (Abstract)
  • The Role of Court Advisors in the Rehabilitation of Youth Offenders (Ms Norbani Mohamed Nazeri, University of Malaya) (Abstract)

d. Precisely “What Works?”: Targeted Interventions

  • Four Areas and Four Needs for Effective Intervention (Darryl James Gardiner, Youth For Christ, New Zealand) (Abstract)
  • Singapore's Beyond Parental Control Order: A 10-year Review of Families who seek Court Orders for their Wayward Teens (Dr Carol Balhetchet, Youth Service Centre (Toa Payoh))

e. The Schools of Thought: Studies of Offending

  • Family Violence and Youth Offending Behaviour (Dr Sudha Nair, National University of Singapore) (Abstract)
  • Survey of Local Preventive and Intervention Programmes for Youths at Risk (Associate Professor Kalyani K.Mehta, National University of Singapore and Dr Neo Lee Hong, Singapore Prison Service (Abstract)

12.15 pm

Lunch and Poster session

2.00 pm
Plenary 5: Pathways to Delinquency: Implications to Offending Prevention and Treatment (Abstract)
Associate Professor Dennis Sing-Wing Wong

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2.45 pm

Question and Answer

3.00 pm

Tea Break

3.30 pm

Plenary 6 : Rehabilitating and Reintegrating Youth Offenders: Are Residential and Community Aftercare Colliding Worlds and What Can Be Done About it? (Abstract)
Associate Professor David Altschuler

Associate Professor, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America

4.15 pm

Question and Answer

4.30 pm

Closing ceremony – Closing address by Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, and Chairperson, National Committee on Youth Guidance and Rehabilitation

5.00 pm

End

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