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Description
Our project is a response to the Social Policy Strategy of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province. It contains, among others, such observations: ‘In families with the problem of helplessness, there is a lack of skills to create the right family life climate and communication patterns, to relieve tensions arising outside the home, to provide individual family members with a sense of security, and to give children attention’. The aim of the project is to prevent family violence at the earliest possible stage – when it is still in its infancy, in the form of a conflict. The project consists in offering various forms of support for families in coping with conflict situations (especially in the area of custody of minor children), so that aggressive behaviour and consequently violence does not occur. The project is primarily addressed to parents and professionals working with families in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province. We will carry out consultations for parents and workshops improving parents'' competences in accompanying their children in conflict using the minimediation method. We will launch an educational support group for parents and a workshop group for youth ‘The Young Creative’. We will provide psychological counselling, therapy and family mediation. We will conduct interdisciplinary training seminars for professionals, conferences on co-parenting including alternate custody and parental alienation as well as social campaigns on joint exercise of parental authority and parental cooperation.
Summary of project results
The aim of our project was to prevent domestic violence at the earliest possible stage, when it is still in its infancy, in the form of conflict.
The main problems we solved and the needs we met:
1. Inability to cope with the resulting independent parenting separation/conflict of spouses/partners
2. Insufficient support for children and young people in the event of parents'' separation, lack of advocacy for their interests
3. Insufficient comprehensive support "under one roof" for independent parents
4. Educational needs of parents and specialists regarding new phenomena: independent parenting, alternating custody, parental alienation
We have organized various forms of support for families in coping with crisis and conflict situations (especially in the area of custody of minor children) to prevent aggressive behavior and, as a consequence, violence. The project involved parents, specialists working with families and young people from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Indirect recipients are minor children living in families where there has been a change in the way of communicating and resolving conflicts without violence.
The following were carried out: (1) consultations (number of hours: 9), (2) educational support group for parents (3 groups, 90 hours of classes for 15 people), (3) workshops improving parents'' competences in the topic of accompanying children in conflict using the SNO method ( 3 groups, 30 hours of classes, 15 people), (4) Workshop group for young people "Young creatives" (30 hours of classes, 10 people), (5) psychological counseling / therapy (348 hours for 23 people), (6) family mediations ( 290 hours, 49 cases, 98 people, 67% of concluded agreements), (7) Interdisciplinary training seminars for specialists (5 meetings, 30 hours, 80 people), (8) conferences on co-parenting, including alternating custody and parental alienation (two events for 172 people), (9) Social campaign on the joint exercise of parental authority and parental cooperation (1 program on regional television + 12 campaigns on Facebook).
As part of institutional development: (1) we developed a development strategy for our organization in a participatory procedure, (2) we held 9 supervision meetings (45 hours in total), we took part in 3 training courses to improve our competences (3 editions, each lasting 16 hours) and (3 ) we have equipped our center with a multimedia screen, a coffee machine, a table, chairs and other furniture.
During the project, we established new partnerships with institutions, built the brand of our organization providing professional assistance, communicated the standard of operation of the non-governmental organization based on strategic planning, supervision and development, and raised our services to a higher level. We know from the evaluation that the project was and would be recommended to other people in a similar life situation as the recipients of our activities.
Products of activities carried out under the project:
1. Project website - 1
2. Leaflet promoting the project - 1 layout, 550 pieces printed + 200 reprints.
3. Two events informing about the project for the largest regional media editorial offices
4. Psychological consultations - 9 hours
5. Conducting 3 editions of a support group for parents, 90 hours in total, 15 people
6. Conducting 3 editions of workshops improving parental competences, 18 hours in total, 15 people
7. Conducting one workshop group for young people, 30 hours in total, 10 people
8. Psychological counseling and therapy, 348 hours for 23 people
9. Mediation in family matters, 290 hours, in 49 cases, for 98 people, 67% of cases ended with a settlement.
10. Interdisciplinary training seminars, 5 editions in 5 locations, for 80 people
11. Two conferences on co-parenting for a total of 172 people
12. Preparation and production of the TV program "Mocne Wspiera" on TVP3 Bydgoszcz, link: https://bydgoszcz.tvp.pl/63864525/mocne-wspiera-11102022
13. Paid campaigns on Facebook (12 emissions) - reached 367,939 people, displayed 600,545 times.
By examining the benefits resulting from the implementation of activities, we could draw conclusions from evaluation surveys and pre-tests and post-tests, which are tools for evaluating project activities. They show:
1. Increased knowledge among parents about the course of violence and the chain of escalation/pretest and posttest - 74%
2. Increased knowledge of specialists on parental alienation and alternating custody/pretest and posttest - 62%
3. Changing the method of communication to a non-aggressive one among participants of support activities / self-assessment survey, feedback - 67%