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AACCI Project for prevention of violence and aggression in children and Youth

AACCI has developed 3 training modules for master trainers to conduct programs for creating awareness and capacity building of teachers, students and children to prevent and empower with ability to prevent and cope up with violence. If subjected to it this module have lectures, interactive sessions that include group discussions and case scenarios

A unique feature of this meet was that there was participation from school students Std VI-XII from two schools "Basra International School , Dwarka and Venkateshwar International School Dwarka who took active part in the deliberations. There was representation from college students in Delhi also Group discussions were held under various themes: interventions at parental, school, college, community levels, legal aspects, special situations like rural, tribal and urban slums and specially challenged children. The groups were led by will be led by experts: Dr Jai Shastri Psychiatrist and Dr Anuradha Sovani from Mumbai University, Prof Katy Gandevia from TISS, Dr Radhakrishnan from RGNIYD, Dr UNB Rao from UVCT Trust, Seema Khanna Media expert ASWHD , Dr Sangeeta Yadav Prof of Pediatrics from MAMC New Delhi, Padmashree Pukhraj Bafna from Chhattisgarh, Adolescent experts like Drs Ashok Gupta from Jaipur, Paula Goel from Mumbai, Anjali Saxena Paediatrician Max hospital and Dr TS Jain medical Director Pusphpanjali Cross lay Hospital New Delhi, Dr Swati Joshi Psychiatrist from Pune and Dr Arena Jadish Adolescent expert from Bangalore in addition to the speakers Dr Shekhar Seshadri Nimesh Desai and Dr Jitendra Nagpal, The legal aspects were contributed by Principal Magistrate Juvenile Justice court Geetanjali Goel

AACCI has developed 3 training modules for master trainers to conduct programs for creating awareness and capacity building of teachers, students and children to prevent and empower with ability to prevent and cope up with violence. If subjected to it this module have lectures, interactive sessions that include group discussions and case scenarios

The pictures of the cover page of these modules are on home page of this website

A work shop was held for Orientation of these modules on 5th Aug at India International center new Delhi AACCI faculty lead by Dr Swati Y Bhave explained the way to use these modules in the orientation program... There were over 50 participants who included doctors "pediatricians, adol experts, principals, teachers, counselors, educationists from many parts of the country.

The pilot testing of the students module was done at Blue Bell School Gurgaon on 11th July 2012 on 40 children from VIII- X std and also field tested on nearly 700 students from std I-X at Activity School Mumbai on 20th and 21st July 2012 .The principal also organized a day long workshop for 50 parents and 25 teachers where the parent and teacher modules were also field tested.

This program has been highly appreciated by everyone and AACCI faculty has received many invitations to conduct this training program in their schools to train their staff so that they can carry forward this program in their school for many years to come We are now planning to hold such training programs in various schools all over the countery

Those schools who are interested in holding programs in their schools can contact us at aacciindia@gmail.com

Details of these events are in the Aug month in the news and event section

For more photos of this event please see photo gallery

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Year : 2013-2014

Istanbul, Turkey | June 10-13, 2013

At the International Congress of Adolescent helath at Istanbul there was active participation by AACCI.

Three poster presentations were made on sexuality education, question box methodology and exam anxiety. For more details see Research

A 90 min symposium on anger management was presented during the conference. A Introductory lecture to the AACCI project on prevention of violence and aggression in youth was done by : Dr Swati Y Bhave . AACCI is conducting a Multicentric survey of children and youth on aggression beliefs , attitudes and behaviour . The data from Mumbai and Delhi was presented by Dr Anjali Saxena.

Dr Swati Y Bhave then conducted a session on anger management where she explained the adverse effects of anger and gave tips to express anger in a social acceptable and constructive fashion which does not harm self or others. She also showed hand on demonstration of progressive muscular relaxation, visual imagery, pranayama and meditation. The session had a full hall and was much appreciated by the participants.

AACCI has entered a collaboration with Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children (www.endcorporalpunishment.org) . Sahin Antakyalioglu made a presentation on this topic during the symposium. The session ended with an interesting Q/A Session

IAAH conference, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Swati Bhave Executive Director AACCI with Linda Beinger, President of IAAH 2009-13
IAAH conference, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Swati Bhave & Dr Anjali Saxena conducting Pranayam session in the AACCI anger management symposium
IAAH conference, Istanbul, Turkey
AACCI research paper posters at the conference details
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New Delhi | May 4, 2013

AACCI Master trainer program in colloboration with Delhi Center of IAP ( Indian Academy of Pediatrics ) and IAP CANCL ( Child abuse Neglect & Child Labour) Group

As part of AACCI project on prevention of violence and aggression in children and youth in India we have entered a partnership with IAP Delhi Center and IAP CANCL.

A master trainers program for the training for the AACCI training module for school teachers. The faculty was Dr Swati Y Bhave , Dr T.S. Jain & Dr Sangeeta Yadav. Also present was President of IAP Delhi Center and IAP CANCL Dr Rajiv Seth .These master trainers will now be ready to train teachers in Delhi schools in the coming month

Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Indian Academy of Pediatrics

Year : 2012-2013

Mumbai | Dec 7-8-9, 2012
International conference on LSE by RGNIYD in Collaboration University of Mumbai and other partners

AACCI was an Invited co-sponsor in this conference. We held a 2 hour symposium on the first day on the AACCI project on prevention of violence and aggression in children and adolescents. The speakers were Dr Swati Y Bhave, Dr Anuradha Sovani, Dr Surekha Joshi and Jay Shastri. Dr Swati Bhave was invited to be chairperson in one of the technical paper session on 9th On 7th and 9th three research papers were presented by Swetha V, Dr Surekha Joshi and Dr Paula Goel in the various Technical paper session. The detailed topics of these sessions can be viewed in Research section in this website

KBP College,Vashi, Mumbai, Maharashtra
KBP College,Vashi, Mumbai, Maharashtra
New Delhi | Nov 27, 2012
AACCI Project for prevention of violence and aggression in children and youth in collaboration with Community medicine Dept of MAMC (Maulana Azad Medical College) New Delhi

This was the second program under this collaboration of rural schools. This was one of the few private co-ed schools in the village. Though this was an English speaking school many of the children are from a lower socioeconomic background This is a small school having 482 students .The program was conducted on 77 boys and girls from classes VIII to XI 7 by a team consisting of Dr Swati Bhave, Dr Jugal Kishore, Dr Tanu Anand, and Dr Pallavi and from MAMC. The interactive lecture session included movie clips and the children were also were taught anger management techniques. They were administered the CDC scale for aggression behavior, beliefs and attitudes It is planned to conduct a master trainer workshop for the teachers of this school.

White leaf Public School Pooth Khurd Village North District of Delhi
White leaf Public School Pooth Khurd Village North District of Delhi
New Delhi | Nov 8, 2012
AACCI Project for prevention of violence and aggression in children and youth in collaboration with Community medicine Dept of MAMC (Maulana Azad Medical College) New Delhi

AACCI has launched the project for prevention of violence and aggression in children. We have created modules for students, parents and children for this in English. This module was translated in Hindi with the help of AACCI core faculty Padmashree Dr Pukhraj Bafna Collaboration has been started with MAMC community Medicine Dept and this Hindi module was pilot tested on nearly 90 girl students belonging to the lower SE group mainly slums around Prahaldpur in a NDMC school This charity program was conducted by a team consisting of Dr Swati Bhave, Dr Sangeeta Yadav, Dr Jugal Kishore and Dr Tanu Anand The contents of the workshop included a lecture in with Hindi slides and then two sessions on group discussions and relevant case scenarios .The girls were also were taught anger management techniques. The principal Mrs. Shashi Prabha and teachers were present as observers. The program was really enjoyed by everyone

Sarvodya Kanya Vidyalaya,Prahaldpur, Delhi
Sarvodya Kanya Vidyalaya,Prahaldpur, Delhi
New Delhi | Aug 5, 2012
Orientation to master trainer program for AACCI modules

AACCI has developed 3 training modules for master trainers to conduct programs for creating awareness and capacity building of teachers, students and children to prevent and empower with ability to cope up with violence.

AACCI faculty lead by Dr Swati Y Bhave explained the way to use these modules in the orientation program .This module has lectures, interactive sessions that include group discussions and case scenarios. There were over 50 participants who included doctors –pediatricians, adol experts, principals, teachers, counselors, educationists from many parts of the country.

This program has been highly appreciated by everyone and AACCI faculty has received many invitations to conduct this training program in their schools to train their staff so that they can carry forward this program in their school for many years to come Those schools who are interested in holding programs in their schools can contact us at aacciindia@gmail.com

India International Center, New Delhi
India International Center, New Delhi

(The pilot testing of the students module was done at Blue Bell School Gurgaon on 11th July 2012 on 40 children from VIII- X std and also field tested on nearly 700 students from std I-X at Activity School Mumbai on 20th and 21st July 2012 .The principal also organized a day long workshop for 50 parents and 25 teachers where the parent and teacher modules were also field tested. The details of these events are given below in the news and events of July 2012)

For more about this meeting please see link "AACCI project on "Prevention of Violence and Aggression in children and Youth" on this page itself.

For more photos of this event please see photo gallery

New Delhi | Aug 5, 2012
Orientation to master trainer program for AACCI modules

AACCI has developed 3 training modules for master trainers to conduct programs for creating awareness and capacity building of teachers, students and children to prevent and empower with ability to cope up with violence.

AACCI faculty lead by Dr Swati Y Bhave explained the way to use these modules in the orientation program .This module has lectures, interactive sessions that include group discussions and case scenarios. There were over 50 participants who included doctors –pediatricians, adol experts, principals, teachers, counselors, educationists from many parts of the country.

This program has been highly appreciated by everyone and AACCI faculty has received many invitations to conduct this training program in their schools to train their staff so that they can carry forward this program in their school for many years to come Those schools who are interested in holding programs in their schools can contact us at aacciindia@gmail.com

India International Center, New Delhi
India International Center, New Delhi

(The pilot testing of the students module was done at Blue Bell School Gurgaon on 11th July 2012 on 40 children from VIII- X std and also field tested on nearly 700 students from std I-X at Activity School Mumbai on 20th and 21st July 2012 .The principal also organized a day long workshop for 50 parents and 25 teachers where the parent and teacher modules were also field tested. The details of these events are given below in the news and events of July 2012)

For more about this meeting please see link "AACCI project on "Prevention of Violence and Aggression in children and Youth" on this page itself.

For more photos of this event please see photo gallery

Mumbai | July 21, 2012

Workshop for over 550 Children from STD V-X -for prevention and violence and aggression in children and adolescents

The over view lecture which had colorful slides with pictures and movie clips was given by Dr Swati Y Bhave ,and Jay Shastri .The other faculty for coordinating group discussions were – Dr Paula Goel, Dr Surekha Joshi , Prof Katy Gandevia, Niyati Gandhi and Bindiya B The participants enjoyed and learned while having fun doing role plays and case scenarios AACCI group taught the children techniques for relaxation like visual imagery and progressive muscular relaxation

Activity School, Mumbai
Activity School, Mumbai

Dr Swati Y Bhave and Dr Jay Shastri conducting plenary session with Prof Katy Gandevia in the first row

Activity School, Mumbai

Children doing relaxation techniques progressive muscular relaxation and visual imagery

Mumbai | July 20, 2012

Workshop for 194 Children from STD I-IV for prevention and violence and aggression in children and adolescents The over view lecture which had colorful slides with pictures and movie clips was given by Dr Swati Y Bhave ,.The other faculty for coordinating group discussions were "Dr Anuradha Sovani , Dr Jay Shastri Dr Paula Goel, Dr Surekha Joshi , Prof Katy Gandevia, Swetha V, Niyati Gandhi and Bindiya B The participants enjoyed and learned while having fun doing role plays and case scenarios AACCI group had created very novel games to teach children about moods, anger management and techniques for relaxation

Activity School, Mumbai
Mumbai | July 14, 2012

Workshop for parents and teachers for prevention and violence and aggression in children and adolescents

There were 50 parents and 25 teachers' .The Principal Perin Bagli was present throughout the day long workshop

The speakers were Dr Swati Y Bhave , Dr Anuradha Sovani , Dr Jay Shastri .The other faculty for coordinating group discussions "Dr Paula Goel, Dr Surekha Joshi

The participants enjoyed and learned while having fun doing role plays and case scenarios

Activity School, Mumbai
Dr Swati Y Bhave & Dr Jay Shastri addressing the group
Activity School, Mumbai
Role plays by parents
Activity School, Mumbai
Dr Anuradha Sovani at group discussion
Activity School, Mumbai
Dr Paul Goel at a group discussion
Haryana | July 11, 2012

Pilot testing of AACCI module on Prevention of Aggression and Violence in children for VIII-X students

40 children 10 each from VIII X XI XII classes were the participants of this workshop. The faculty was Dr Swati Y Bhave and Dr Anjali Saxena The children enjoyed the workshop and also took part in filling in a research survey on aggression behavior, attitudes and beliefs

Blue Bell School Gurgaon Haryana
Dr Swati Y Bhave explaining the research proforma for filling by the students
Blue Bell School Gurgaon Haryana
Dr Anjali Saxena explaining what to do for group discussion to the students