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Synthesis Report SAVE “SAVE” Solutions Against Violence in Europe Synthesis Report Comparison of six Local Situation Analysis Authors: Dr. Michael Wünsche Julia Kamenicek Center for Childhood and Adolescence Research (ZfKJ) Association for Research and Innovation (FIVE e.V.) at the Protestant University Freiburg Bugginger Straße 38 79114 Freiburg www.zfkj.de Project partners Azienda ULSS n.9 Treviso U.O.C. Programmazione e Controllo di Gestione Ufficio Progetti Finanziati Piazzale Ospedale, 1 31100 Treviso – Italy www.ulss.tv.it Veneto Region Social Services Department Rio Novo, 3493 Dorsoduro 30123 Venezia www.regione.veneto.it/ Associazione Dafne Via Cavassico Superiore, 12/B 32028 Trichiana (BL) www.associazionedafnetrichiana.it Center for Childhood and Adolescence Research (ZfKJ) Association for Research and Innovation at the Protestant University Freiburg (FIVE) Bugginger Straße 38 79114 Freiburg www.zfkj.de Germany Region of Crete Eleftherias Square 71 201 Heraklion www.crete.gov.gr The Social and Medical Services Department of the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Piața Unirii, nr. 1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania www.primariaclujnapoca.ro email: [email protected] Zavod Emma - Center to assist victims of vio- lence Tržaška 2 1000 Ljubljana www.zavod-emma.si Slovenia POLIBIENESTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE. UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA Edificio Institutos de Investigación. Campus dels Tarongers. C/ Serpis, 29. 46022. Valencia Spain Content Introduction: Objectives and Methodology of the Synthesis Report ............................................... 1 1 Definition of violence and abuse ................................................................................................ 2 2 Structural aspects of violence against minors ............................................................................. 3 2.1 Prevalence of violence against children: data location ................................................................. 3 2.2 Legal regulations ........................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 National Support Systems ............................................................................................................. 5 3 Learning from Best Practice ....................................................................................................... 9 3.1 Criteria for Best Practice ............................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Best Practice of the project partners .......................................................................................... 11 3.2.1 On-field projects ................................................................................................................... 11 A different, innovative approach: professional group (Romania, Cluj) ..................................... 11 CAP MODEL (Slovenia) .............................................................................................................. 13 Center of care and protection of child victims of abuse and mistreatment and their families (Italy, Veneto Region – LHA9).................................................................................................... 19 Cluj County Intervention Centre for Abused Children (Romania, Cluj) ..................................... 25 Description of a Best Practice of Prevention & Detection on the field of Child abuse (Greek) 27 Description of a Best Practice of Prevention & case of violence on the field of Child sexual abuse (Greek, Region of Crete)) ................................................................................................ 31 Education to Relationship project (Italy, Dafne Association) .................................................... 33 Group Therapy with Analytic Psychodrama Tool (Italy, Dafne Association) ............................. 36 Interprovincial Team for Care and protection of childhood and family (Italy, Veneto Region – LHA9) ......................................................................................................................................... 40 LEARNING SCHOOL NETWORK (Slovenia) ................................................................................. 56 Passt!-prevention program (Germany, district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald) ........................... 60 3.2.2 ICT projects ........................................................................................................................... 64 Protect (Germany, MOSAIK GmbH, Mannheim University and the district Bergstraße) .......... 64 PROTÉGETE (Spain) .................................................................................................................... 66 QWERT project (Italy, Veneto Region - LHA9) ........................................................................... 69 3.3 Comparison of the Best Practices ............................................................................................... 72 3.3.1 General results ..................................................................................................................... 72 3.3.2 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ............................................................. 77 3.3.3 Public-private partnership .................................................................................................... 80 3.3.4 Interregional and transnational transferability of Best Practice .......................................... 81 3.4 Best Practice in further regions ................................................................................................... 83 3.4.1 On-field-projects .................................................................................................................. 83 Child Protection Centre of Zagreb ............................................................................................. 83 Family Justice Centers in Europe ............................................................................................... 87 Il faro – “The Lighthouse” .......................................................................................................... 90 Local Safeguarding Children Board ........................................................................................... 93 Save the Children Romania: Counselling for abused, neglected and trafficked children ......... 97 SOS Eliza House for the Therapy and Rehabilitation of Abused and Neglected Children ....... 100 Strengthen the right of children to be safe ............................................................................. 103 The Childrens House ................................................................................................................ 106 3.4.2 ICT projects ......................................................................................................................... 109 Child Rights International Network (CRIN)(International) ...................................................... 109 The Hideout ............................................................................................................................. 111 Thinkuknow ............................................................................................................................. 114 4 Limitations of the results ....................................................................................................... 119 5 Conclusion: 22 Recommendations of action ........................................................................... 121 Literature ................................................................................................................................. 124 List of figures............................................................................................................................ 126 Introduction: Objectives and Methodology of the Synthesis Report With the project "Solutions against Violence in Europe (SAVE)”, the prevention, detection, and case management in the cases of violence against children can be improved. On the one hand is the focus on cooperation between the actors involved, in particular the public and private organizations. On the other hand, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources are to be included and developed, as the support potential of ICT is far from ex- hausted in the case of violence. The aim of the "SAVE" project is to develop intervention models that consist of "on-field" components and on ICT, which can be applied across coun- tries in the EU as needed. This synthesis report forms the basis for the development of these models. The synthesis report is based on six so-called "Local Situation Analysis Reports" (LSAs), which project partners have created for their regions. Here the respective help systems and exam- ples of best practice on violence against children have been reported. By the "SAVE" project being oriented to existing projects, valuable experiences may be used in the development of intervention models. The synthesis report brings together the individual LSAs and compares their results to identify, pick up, and continue to develop successful aspects of individual projects. The aim is to formulate recommendations for the development of intervention models. The comparison of the different aspects in the LSAs was realized by content analysis along the individual threads in the LSAs (prevalence, legislation, support systems and best practice projects). In the second meeting in March 2015 Freiburg, the consortium identified
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