The University of Otago Adolescent Mobility Health Consortium (AMHC) in New Zealand is pleased to announce its Inaugural Symposium on Wednesday 15 February, 2012. This will be a combined live and online event showcasing new directions in teen mobility, the paradox of speed, and the importance of parental and youth engagement in mobility choices. AMHC is changing the narrow paradigm of adolescent road safety focusing on crash risk, to the more potent and healthy vision of less teen driving through mobility modal shift from cars to active and public transport.
The event is ann international multidisciplinary event showcasing current research on new directions in the areas of teen mobility, the paradox of speed, and youth engagement in mobility choices. This will be an interesting academic understanding of young people’s involvement in road safety choices. This event will be streamed live to the Web (to be archived here) for later viewing.
When: 8:30 am to 1:00 pm (NZDT), Wednesday 15 February, 2012 (or click for local time which may be 1 day earlier)
Live Stream: You can watch it free online anywhere in the world. After you register, you’ll receive access to links to a calendar reminder and the live stream. We will also email you a reminder the day before.
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
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8:30 Welcome and Overview
8:45 Professor Hank Weiss (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) – ‘Deep change and adolescent mobility health’.
9:15 Associate Professor Paul Tranter (School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, Australia) – Keynote Address: ‘The urban speed paradox: youth perspectives on time pressure, transport and health‘.
10:15 Morning tea break
10:35 Dr Bruce Simons-Morton (NIH Prevention Research Branch, Rockville, MD, USA) – ‘The role of parents in adolescent transport decisions‘ (via Skype).
11:10 Arthur Orsini (Urbanthinkers, Vancouver, Canada) – ‘Engaging teens in healthy transport decisions‘.
11:45 Teen panel discussion – Facilitated by Arthur Orsini – A discussion with local non-driving teens and the studio and online audiences.
1:00 Wrap-up
Avenir Sante are young people who have come together, and carry out preventive actions for the benefit of other young people! The young people involved are usually same age making exchanges of information and chats more freely, without taboos and without preaching the morality of risk-taking.
Avenir Sante want to help by making young people think, informing and directing (They say ‘We are not professionals and therefore we do not instruct young people on how to act’)
The organization’s themes focus on road accidents, addictions: tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, AIDS and STDs), there are 240,000 young people per year on their study sites, party in the street, in short, where they are !
Creating preventative actions is difficult which is why Avenir Sante offers a framework for action, they form and accompany them on the actions through training.
Actions are held in seven regions: Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon, Pays de la Loire, Auvergne and Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur!
They say, ‘We just hope to be useful and that the association will grow, grow, grow!’