By your side – Breaking the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence

Project facts

Project promoter:
Commission for the Promotion of the Rights and the Protection of Children and Young People(PT)
Project Number:
PT-WORKLIFE-0028
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€378,730
Donor Project Partners:
Stine Sofie''s Foundation(NO)
Other Project Partners
Centre for Social Research and Intervention(PT)
Directorate General of Education(PT)
General Directorate of Health(PT)
Institute of Social Security(PT)
National Republican Guard(PT)
National Support Network for Victims of Domestic Violence(PT)
Order of Portuguese Psychologists(PT)
Public Security Police(PT)

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Description

Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Improved system for the protection and prevention of domestic and gender-based violence”.

The project will establish an early-intervention model to for children witnessing domestic violence and their families, to address trauma, promote prevention and break the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence. The project will complement the interventions for the mothers who are domestic violence victims.

The project will include, inter alia, the following activities:

*          Development of instruments to foster a gender perspective in the approach to domestic violence in the work of CPCJ.

*          Training of stakeholders involved in, and responsible for, screening, signalling and protection in the Child and Youth Protection Commissions, based on a gender perspective.

*          Measures to ensure faster and more effective protection/intervention for child victims of domestic violence.

*          Measures to ensure psychological and trauma support for children living with domestic abuse/whose mothers have been killed by their partners/former partners.

*          Development of instruments for the action and training of Commission for the Promotion of the Rights and the Protection of Children and Young People and the National Support Network for Victims of Domestic Violence.

*          Measures to strengthen intrasectoral and intersectoral cooperation for child protection as a domestic violence prevention tool.

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