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The project responds to the limited possibilities in providing comprehensive assistance to persons at risk of domestic and gender-based violence and its victims in the city of Jirkov and the adjacent area. In order to improve the unfavourable conditions the project focuses on the coordination of the key actors to achieve their effective collaboration. This key activity are supplemented by the capacity building of relevant professionals and awareness raising of the available services for the public. A new interdisciplinary platform will be established during the project implementation. It will focus on tackling the violence against disadvantaged persons, especially people with disabilities and the elderly. The platform will include regular meetings of the professional representing relevant organisation and social services. Its aim is to increase capacity for providing assistance to the victims of domestic and gender-based violence, coordinate procedures within individual and specific cases, to transfer good practice, exchange experiences and increase the competencies and expertise of the actors involved (psychotherapists, lawyers and social workers etc.). The platform will bring together relevant non-governmental non-profit organizations, healthcare facilities, local authorities, police, social service providers, and will support healthy networking and partnership of actors. In order to support the motivation of the actors, the project is implemented in cooperation with several project partners (The City of Jirkov; Jirkov City Police; St. Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital; Secondary Vocational School of Energy and Construction and Secondary Medical School; Higher Vocational School of Economics, Social and Medical and Secondary Medical School). The project comprises also awareness-raising activities to promote the existence of the platform and available services for the victims and capacity building activities consisting of trainings for social and health professionals.