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At the closing session of the Second Forum for Juvenile Centers and Social Education Homes in the UAE, participants stressed the need to enhance cooperation between the different centers and facilities working in the field of juvenile care. At the end of the forum, which was held on February 2- 3 under the slogan ‘Best Practices in Juvenile Reform’, participants also called for taking the necessary measures to standardize plans, programs, and approaches; in addition to exchanging ideas and evaluating experiences to achieve optimal results. They also stressed the importance of implementing the recommendations issued by the work team established by Juvenile Centers and Social Education Homes, and the Higher Committee for Child Protection and the need to integrate their efforts.
The forum also called for promoting prevention before the onset of delinquent behavior to prevent juveniles from becoming delinquents by communicating with social institutions; conducting surveys, field visits, and social and school training sessions; as well as activating and developing post-care programs. The recommendations also stipulated the need to engage parents with these programs in a bid to reintegrate delinquents into society with the help of competent authorities. They also called for establishing proper regulations pertaining to the selection of the administrative and professional staff for Juvenile Centers and Social Education Homes and the need to provide them with proper and regular training to ensure their efficient interaction and develop their skills and competencies. Participants at the forum also stressed the importance of activating the prevention procedures stipulated in Article (15) of the Juvenile Delinquency Act and Article (9) of 1976 about judicial probation and vocational training.
Recommendations also stressed the importance of focusing on restorative justice and including it in the new juveniles draft law, which promotes a key principle that detention should be a last resort for juveniles, and works to orientate interventions towards the best interest of the juveniles. Other recommendations called for availing of the media to serve juveniles’ cases and achieve the objectives of care, reform, prevention and post-care; and establishing joint plans and programs to serve this end.
The two-day forum was inaugurated by Brigadier Ahmed Mohammed Nehkairah, Head of Human Rights Department, Ministry of Interior, and head of the Juvenile Centers and Social Education Homes’ work team at the countrywide level.
The forum, which that was held at Juveniles Care Center in Abu Dhabi, was attended by Colonel Mohammed Saif Al Zaabi, Head of the Punitive and Correctional Establishments Department at Abu Dhabi Police; Colonel Dr. Abdullah Mohammad Bu Hindi, Director of the Juveniles Care Center at Abu Dhabi Police; Esq. Mohammed Rashid Al Dhanhani, Head of the Family Law Prosecution in Abu Dhabi; Moza Salem Al Shoomi, Director of the Child Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs; Dr. Huda Abdullah Al Suwaidi, Director of the Family Development Department at the Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai; Iman Abdullah Hareb, Acting Director of Social Protection Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs; in addition to directors of male and female Social Education Homes in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and Al Fujairah.
In his speech at the forum’s opening ceremony, Colonel Dr. Abdullah Mohammad Bu Hindi, Director of the Juveniles Care Center at Abu Dhabi Police, noted that the forum was organized based on the directives of the higher leadership, which stipulates the need to providing care and assistance to juveniles and their families in order to serve the best interests of individuals and society in general, and calls for implementing international best practices and experiences to achieve optimum results.
Colonel Dr. Bu Hindi said: “The two-day forum tackled various topics such as the appropriate methods to dealing with teenagers in general; nurturing children’s religious spirit; successful parenting approaches; successful juveniles reform programs; key practices and successful experiences in post-care rehabilitation; child protection against potential dangers inside or outside the home; as well as approaches and measures for preventing juvenile delinquency.” He also indicated that during the forum, a number of work papers were reviewed and discussed and were presented by a panel of care, rehabilitation and family experts and specialists; in addition to several purposeful workshops that were attended by juveniles from all over the country.
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