EU Justice and Home Affairs Agencies Meeting

Helen Fitzgerald and Dr Eoin O’Meara Daly attended the meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Agencies Network, hosted by the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) in Lisbon on June 15-16th. The focus of the meeting was on drug-related violence in Europe. Helen and Eoin shared learning from the EUDA-funded Safe Futures Project which is building on the learning from the Greentown Programme in Ireland. Eoin outlined the findings from a Rapid Evidence Review of scientific and grey literature on promising approaches to intervening in the recruitment of young people into European drugs networks as well as initial reflections from qualitative interviews with policy makers, practitioners and researchers across Europe. Helen discussed the developing European Community of Practice where learning and practice wisdom is being shared to inform the development of new interventions in the complex area of young people's involvement in drugs networks.