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What is ‘CARE’ project about?
Children in care are more likely to have been exposed to multiple forms of traumatic experiences, such as physical or sexual abuse, neglect, family and/or community violence, trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation, bullying, or loss of loved ones. In addition to the circumstances of abuse or neglect that led to their removal, children may be subject to further stresses after entering the system, including separation from family, friends, and community, as well as the uncertainty of their future.
Objectives
The project aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Promoting coordination, multidisciplinary cooperation and mutual understanding among the sectors of police, medical, legal, social service and education (national authorities & civil society), for improved detection, identification and response to ACEs during the process of investigation, removal and out-of-home placement of children victims of CAN.
- Development of an inter-disciplinary trauma-informed training toolkit for improving, strengthening and harmonizing law enforcement and social work professionals’ skills/capacities and practices during investigation, removal and out-of home placement of children victims of CAN.
- Development of an inter-disciplinary trauma-informed training toolkit for improving, strengthening and harmonizing law enforcement and social work professionals’ skills/capacities and practices during investigation, removal and out-of home placement of children victims of CAN.
Activities
- Establishment of national working groups (about 10-15 participants) with the participation of: law enforcement, juvenile pubic prosecutor, social service of municipality, helpline operators, social service of pediatric hospital, medical and nursing staff, residential care providers, experts
- Development of the training material and step-by-step protocols on trauma-informed approaches on the basis of the results and discussion in the working groups through a cross-sector collaborative effort between the participants of the working groups
- Identification of professionals to be trained
- Training (capacity building) of 600 professionals by academic and non-academic experts at national level (experts/participants of the working groups)