Project

Region	National coverage
Title of the Programme	Human Rights
Title of the Project	TOGETHER: Help children - collaboration experts
Number of the Project	LP-HRMGSB-007
Project Promoter	Spirála, Ústecký kraj, z. s.
Czech Partner	Association of Workers of Intervention Centres of the Czech Republic, z.s. (Asociace pracovníků intervenčních center ČR, z.s.) White Circle of Safety, z.s. (Bílý kruh bezpečí, z.s.) Regional Office of the Ústí nad Labem Region (Krajský úřad Ústeckého kraje) Silesian Diakonie (Slezská diakonie)
Status	Estimated project duration: 1/2023 - 4/2024
More Information	Target groups: Intervention centres Actors of interdisciplinary cooperation Children at risk of domestic violence End user: Victims of domestic/gender-based violence General public Web site: spirala-ul.cz/ Social media: www.facebook.com/spiralaul
Total Eligible Costs	147 146 EUR
Grant	147 146 EUR (100 %)

Project description:

The project will improve support for children as particularly vulnerable victims of domestic violence. Children living in families affected by domestic or gender-based violence are perceived as "invisible victims". They are children for whom the system is unable to provide timely, comprehensive and professional assistance.

The project is aimed at creating an effective platform operating across the Ustecky region and Moravskoslezsky region. It will focus on strengthening the professional capacities of intervention centres and other actors of effective assistance to children at risk. The interdisciplinary teams will include entities and initiatives responsible for the given issue or which are providing assistance to children in the region in a new way. 

Within the project:

• The competencies of workers in helping children at risk in the acute phase of dealing with domestic violence (during the eviction of a parent or the prohibition of contact between a parent and a child at risk) will be set and unified. 
• To the cooperating non-profit and state organizations, the implementer will provide training and materials for early detection of the impact of violence on children and teach them how to conduct a crisis interview with a child at risk. 
• Good practices will be shared. 
• Characteristics of statistical data about children that are appropriate to collect and analyze will be proposed.

The model of cooperation, training and data collection will be tested in the Ústí nad Moravskoslezsky region and transferred to the practice of intervention centres across the country. The project will create functional cooperative platforms at the regional and national levels, pieces of training will take place, and manuals for professionals and information materials for parents and their children will be created. 

The cooperation with a law firms will verify how the judiciary is prepared to defend the rights of vulnerable children and parents in this area. Good practice will be methodically set up with the persons responsible for the issue in the regional offices in the two regions concerned. 

One of the accompanying activities is the media coverage of the topic of children at risk and the outcomes of the project activities. Intervention centres are set up specifically to help victims of domestic violence, the impact of the project will be long-term.