Description
The overall objective of the project is the decreased spread of sexual violence in Estonia, achieved through improving access to relevant counselling services and increasing the capability and capacity of organisations operating actively in the field. The immediate objective of the project is to develop new and innovative information and counselling service for Estonia. The service will be targeted at people with deviant sexual behaviour, their family members and relatives as well as for different specialists who are professionally in contact with them. The main activities are: Developing and implementing the working principles for providing phone and Internet-based counselling for people with sexually deviant behaviour; launching phone and internet-based counselling for people with sexually deviant behaviour; information dissemination among the target-group and awareness raising activities for the wider public; conducting relevant training for different specialists working in adjacent fields (youth counsellors, probation officers, specialists working with people special needs / disabled etc); providing phone and Internet-based counselling for people with sexually deviant behaviour. The counselling will be carried out by professional psychiatrists or psychologists. The service is free of charge and anonymous for the callers.
Summary of project results
The Project was needed to pilot counseling service for persons with deviant sexual behavior. The service lasted five months during the Project period and is being continued til today. The Project was necessary to pilot the service and find out the weak spots. For example it is now clear that to have wider impact more resources is needed for advertising. During the Project 30 counseling algorythms were created; network of specialists were created in case there was a need to direct caller to see a specialist; free of charge phone number was established (6665120); 3 workspaces were created for counselors, 3 counselors were trained for the job etc. Durin five months call-in telepohone line had 100 callers, 300 people asked help via internet, 10750 business cards were created to advertise the service, 28 articles were in print media, 4 reflections were in TV, 1800 people tested themsleves whether they should turn to counseling, 9000 visited the web-page.
Summary of bilateral results