Domestic violence: seminars for workers in helping sphere

Czech Republic

Goals: describe the main goals of the good practice

- providing seminars for social workers, policeman, judges  about domestic violence, victims of this kind of crime, about specific groups of victims include elderly

Target Group: describe on which group the good practice is targeted (for instance, older people themselves, care providers, family etc.)

- social workers

- carers

- policeman

- judges

- lawyers

- other professionals

 

Approach: describe the way in which the good practice is implemented.

Intervention centres offer seminars about the topic of domestic violence. They usually make the seminars with some target group – for example elderly victims. It is on very high level, it is well organized, usually matching for the target group for which speaking for.

 

Who implements this good practice? Mention, if relevant, the organisation or persons who do the work.

Intervention centre, Prague

MÄ›stské centrum sociálních služeb Praha

What material is available on this good practice (description, website etc.)

http://www.csspraha.cz/interven%C4%8Dn%C3%AD%20centrum

There has been held conferention about domestic violence and there are pdf material available.

They organize expert interdisciplinary team – everymonth they held meetings and focus on different points of the topic. There exists material form the year 2008-2009 available on their websides.

material

How widely is this good practice used in your country?

It is widely used practise, intervention centres are based in every region and their ability to provide seminar is really great.

What are the results, outcomes, experiences with this good practice? Please mention the source(s).

The best result is the composite book of expert texts on the topic. They cover not only expert texts, but their book is usable for preventive measures too – it is readable and provide various approaches how to work with victim of violence.

source

Are there effect studies? Please mention the source(s) if the answer is ‘yes’.

no

What are the success factors?

High quality of seminars

Established organization providing seminars

Expert knowledge provided

Focusing on specific target group – help providers, where when lack of knowledge than really problematic

Focusing on specific subject according to it’s relevancy

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