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Description
The problem we are responding to is the lack of skills to protect personal boundaries and defend themselves in young people who have experienced violence. Violence against children and youth is a serious social problem. The experience of abuse poses a serious threat to a child''s development, health and safety. Children experience violence both in their homes and among their peers. It is extremely important to teach children and young people the skills to protect their boundaries. In this project we teach 550 children and 50 professionals working with them in the Lublin Province how to protect their boundaries and defend themselves. To this end, we are developing and testing a game called ''Red Light on Your Boundary'' for use by people working with children as well as by parents. The aim of the game is to develop children''s boundaries protection skills in a constructive and socially acceptable way. The game will be available to download in Polish and Ukrainian languages, together with instructions and a lesson scenario. In addition, we are organising an online conference "Personal Boundaries - setting them, or educating?", running workshops for children and educators using the game, and carrying out educational initiatives for children. As part of the project''s dissemination activities, we will publish a video on how to work with the ''Red Light on Your Boundary'' game.
Summary of project results
The "Red light on your personal boundary" project was implemented in the Lublin Voivodeship. Its aim was to strengthen the ability of 550 children and 50 professionals working with them to protect their boundaries and defend themselves. The project created, tested and published on the website the game "Red light on your personal boundary", the aim of which is to learn the correct ways for children and young people to set and defend their borders in situations where there is a risk of crossing them. The game can be used by people working with children who are at risk of experiencing violence or witness it.
The following activities were carried out in the project:
1. Promotion of the project 11/2022-10/2023
2. Online conference "Boundaries - setting or educating?" - 23/02/2023
3. Development of the game "Red light on your personal boundary" https://fundacjaproedu.org.pl/projekty/red-light-project/ - XI2022-X2023
4. Workshops for children March-April 2023
5. Workshops for professionals March - April 2023 (acquiring the skills to help children and young people experiencing violence or at risk of it using the game "Red Light on personal boundary" created in the project).
6. Educational initiatives April-June 2023
7. Project dissemination and evaluation
902 children aged 6-14 from primary schools (including 1 group of Ukrainian children) and 54 professionals participated in the project. All these people got acquainted with and took advantage of classes using the game "Red Light on Your Personal Boundary" developed as part of the project, the aim of which was to develop the ability to assertively set boundaries when crossing them.