Toolkit
Children First
Improving Local Services for a More Effective and Child-Centred Approach to Witnessed Violence
Improving Local Services for a More Effective and Child-Centred Approach to Witnessed Violence
Aim
Children First aimed to improve the quality of assistance and support provided by public and private services for minors suffering from WDV. In particular the idea is to Enhance the ability of practitioners to recognize/treat cases of WDV and to create an evidence-based framework based on multidisciplinary, cooperation, new holistic treatments of the child through the release of practical transnational guidelines and 3 local protocols.
Research
The path foreseen by the CHILDREN FIRST project consists in:
- A preliminary assessment activity to understand all the main implications and features of WDV within each country and to figure out the training needs of the professionals, based on desk analysis and the involvement of professionals in data gathering
Download the Comparative International Report on witnessed violence in three EU member states (EN) - The creation of a training modules to create a common theoretical and operational framework to reduce the operational gap between various operators, and between them and crucial European and National regulations.
- The realization of Pilot empowerment process, guiding mothers and children in processes of economic empowerment/ entrepreneurship and life skills and resilience
- The involvement of local stakeholders and institutions in order to ratify new operational protocols.
The Training toolkit
The research-action will be the base in order to build a training toolkit aimed:
- To increase knowledge and skills on main aspects of witnessed violence, in its features and its implications in terms of detection and treatment with eyes on the EU practices and laws
- To spread a culture of cooperation among professionals working in different fields related to the phenomenon of WV and among professionals of different local non-profit organizations in target areas
Training contents will cover the following topics:
- Module 1: EU framework for the detection and treatment of cases of witnessed violence and main examples of successful guidelines for practitioners at EU level
- Module 2: EU framework for Enhancing interagency and multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration, both at national and at transnational levels.
- Module 3: Empowerment of women mothers of children victim of witnessed violence.
- Module 4: Empowerment of children witnessing domestic violence.
