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The project is addressed to victims of domestic violence, as well as people at risk of violence and perpetrators of violence. The problem of family violence is already quite well known, but the scale of its occurrence is so large that new measures are needed. In 2020 alone, 57,760 cases of physical violence, 81,344 of psychological violence, 1163 of sexual violence, 1813 of economic violence and 21,985 of other types of violence were recorded. The survey conducted by the Empowering Children Foundation shows that 27.2% of the respondents aged 13-17 experienced at least one of the examined forms of abuse (violence by close adults, witnessing violence at home, peer violence) between mid-March and the end of June 2020. In turn, the Ministry of Family and Social Policy’s report entitled ‘Evaluation of the effectiveness of counteracting violence by professionals’ reveals that the employees of institutions for counteracting violence assessed best the availability of social assistance (positively assessed by 76% of the respondents). Worse ratings were given to the availability of legal assistance for adults (61%), psychological assistance for children experiencing family violence (49%), assistance offered by Information and Consultation Points (48%), assistance for the elderly (44%) and people with disabilities (40%). Taking into account the police statistics on the number of people experiencing violence, there is a high demand for the development of assistance activities. Therefore, within this project educational activities, counselling, support in crisis and the implementation of social campaigns have been planned. For people experiencing violence, we have launched a hotline ‘TeleSupport’ and an online chat with specialists in law, psychology, pedagogy and vocational counselling. We will conduct webinars, consultations, develop iconographics and audiovisual materials with which we want to change social attitudes towards the phenomenon of violence.