SIHLWA Progress 2009 JanuaryApril PROGRESS January April 2009

SIHLWA Progress 2009 January-April PROGRESS January – April 2009 FUTURE ACTIVITIES end of 2009 & INVOLVEMENT IN OTHER NDPHS ACTIVITIES

SIHLWA’s leadership (election of co-lead partners when lacking) • Lead Partner continues to be Finland • Co-Lead partner continues to be Lithuania • Indigenous Mental Health, Addiction & Parenting (IMHAP) to be or not to be section (sub-group? ). Tentatively Lead Partner Canada, Co-Lead Partner NCM?

SIHLWA action summary (A. ) January – April 2009 1. January Alcohol & Drug Prevention among Youth SPb Phase-I (NCM & FIN) final report & seminar for decision makers. Starting Phase-II-2009 A&DPrev. Y-SPb (FIN)/ NGO implemented Innovating for new Phase-III-2010 -2011 A&DPrev. Y-SPb with strengthened involvement of social well-being components e. g. social support to families affected by alcohol & drugs, support to adolescent’s reproductive health, mental health, suicide prevention, social inclusion promotion for teenagers, etc (in planning) FLAGSHIP PROJECT OF SIHLWA ADO 2. January. February Early Identification of Early Identification & Brief Intervention (EIBI) in SPb & Leningrad obl. feasibility project (2008) final report. Outcome not encouraging. GPs and narcologists only able to start action if paid extra by donor. Russian own resources cannot be identified & used. Light in the tunnel: social sector in SPb willing to start EIBI development & piloting 2010. FLAGSHIP PROJECT OF SIHLWA ALC 3. January. April N-W Russia Occupational Health & Safety (OSH) project phase II successfully ongoing (ILO & RF). N-W Russia Occupational Health & Safety (OSH) project phase III in planning for 20102011 (ILO & RF) FLAGSHIP PROJECT OF SIHLWA OSH 4. February “EC law & trade agreements impact on alcohol policy” Riga 25 -26/2/2009 (NAD & EC & SIHLWA-ALC). To be followed up in SIHLWA-7 and eventually at Swedish EU Presidency alcohol conferences in September 2009

SIHLWA action summary (B. ) January – April 2009 5. February 6. February. April 7. April 8. January April Working visit to WHO-EURO on issues related to healthy lifestyles and search for synergies in our work (note for the file is available) Working visit to NCM/CPH: strengthen social wellbeing components in ADO projects. Interested in IMHAP (co-lead partner) Scaling up Indigenous Mental Health – Addiction – Parenting following the recommendations from PAC-5 & Ottawa side event. Luleå 18/03/2009 (note for the file available) and preparation for SIHLWA-7 May 4 -5. SIHLWA Stakeholder-analysis for N-W-Russia. After SIHLWA-7 to use the template for other regions and countries by SIHLWA experts. “SIHLWA-WILD CARD” Life at Stake / На кону – жизнь (Na konu – zhizn’) reality TVprogram promotion/adoption for Russia SIHLWA’s role “enzymatic”. Actual work by NIHSW/FIN, FIN Medical Association, Finnish TV, TARINATALO TV-producer. Progress surprisingly successful (CTC/ SPb, Russian World Studios, REN-TV Moscow). Suprisingly, probably will first be launched in US & Canada. Discussions in Russia will continue in early autumn. Cooperation with Mo. SA&H and Russian Institutes (Professor Starodubov, Professor Oganov, Professor Shabrov & others) Flyers available in English and in Russian. Minister Golikova’s paper on “Lifestyle health promotion in Russia”

SIHLWA action summary (C. ) January – April 2009 9. April 10. January April 11. January – April -> PYLL – Potential Years of Life Lost. Updated business proposal sent to Vologda Oblast. Cooperation with Mo. SA&H and Russian Institutes (Professor Starodubov, Professor Oganov, Professor Shabrov & others could be useful. SIHLWA-7 May 4 -5 preparation. Important issues on the agenda are scaling up social well-being component within SIHLWA and strategic considerations (note available), upcoming EU-presidency alcohol conferences PAC-6 & prison health lifestyle challenges SIHLWA thematic papers (ADO, ALC, OSH) IMHAP – “to be or not to be? ” Work on the long-term meeting schedule for SIHLWA 2009 and beyond. Further discussions with Partner countries and organizations (2 per year)

SIHLWA experts contemplating on how to scale up social inclusion & wellbeing

Opening a new frontier – Atti! Atti*! Do you dare? *Thank you (Komi)

Project concept through NCM: Mental health, and suicide prevention among indigenous adolescents NCM tentative planning meeting in Greenland

Potential Years of Life Lost / PYLL Martha and I plan to have a rich life until the very end Analysis of preventable premature mortality N-W Russia? Updated offers were sent to Vologda obl. Baltic Countries next? You bet we will, Sophie ! ! Suits perfectly with Russian new healthy lifestyles policy Minister Golikova 2009)

SIHLWA “WILD-CARD” ”На кону-жизнь” Reality TV-programme for SPb CTC/ SPb Russian World Studios REN-TV Moscow “Life at stake” Canada & USA

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NAD & SIHLWA/ALC: EC law & trade agreements impact on alcohol policy held in Riga 25 -26 Feb. 2009 Our counytries claim to be “model students” in EU following the rules and regulation. Concerning alcohol this is nonsense!

FAIRY-TALE “Once upon the time there was a rooster that started to think it wanted to be a peacock…” Until then it had been a good rooster, but after that it was no rooster any more and as a peacock he turned out to be a failure” [PS: was it not one of the causes of our present economic crisis that banks who were like chicken good in laying eggs believed that they could be eagles to catch flying geese – and they crashed by trying to do so. ]

SIHLWA SECRETARIAT CONTINUES TO BE AT THE SERVICE OF NDPHS AND ITS EXPERTS ADO ALC OSH (IMHAP) Thank you for all your support!