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Municipal Welfare Centre in Bartoszyce, from 12.06.2014 to 30.06.2015, realised a project called ‘THE CLOSE DON’T HURT – THE CLOSE LOVE’, co-financed with the Fund Small Grants Program PL14 ‘Prevention of domestic and gender-based violence’ under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014.

 

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT assumed:

reduction of domestic violence within Bartoszyce town throughout series of educational-preventive-informational and infrastructure activities for a group of 70 people and their kin.

 

The project was directed at the following target groups:

1. PARENTS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RISK OF VIOLENCE (25 people)

2. CHILDREN AND YOUTH TO 18 YEARS OLD (25 people)

3. VICTIMS AND ABUSERS (20 people)

4. DISABILED AND OLDER PEOPLE AFFECTED OR THREATENED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ISSUE (140 people)

5. MERIT PERSONNEL TAKING ACTIONS TO FAMILIES AFFECTED BY OR AT RISK OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (30 people)

6. PARTICIPANTS OF THE SEMINAR SUMMARIZING PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (60 people)

7. INDIRECT CONSUMERS

 

During the project we carried out a preventive-educational activities and individual consultations with specialists in various fields, in particular:

 

1) CLASSES CONDUCTED BY A PSYCHOLOGIST as support groups and individual activities. Meetings for victims of domestic violence and people at risk of that. The classes were dedicated to interpersonal references training, increasing self-confidence, building/rebuilding of self-esteem, learning how to isolate from the abuser and how to oppose his aggression, etc.

Resocializing meetings for offender of domestic violence were focused on the cessation of violence in the family, getting awareness of their aggressive behaviours, purchase of basic interpersonal skills, ability to express anger constructively, competence to tackle conflicts without aggression.

 

2) CLASSES WITH EDUCATOR: ‘SCHOOL FOR PARENTS’ in the form of individual and group meetings. Group meetings with the division of gender (in the form of supporting groups for women and men) and activities focused on shaping socially desirable attitudes, acquisition and developing parenting skills and the ability to cope with behavioral difficulties and family problems, e.g. the role of the mother/ father, family relationships, division of duties between the members of the household, bringing up without violence, how to deal with children’s aggression.

 

3) MEETINGS WITH ADDICTION THERAPISTS as group classes and individual consultations. Meetings for abusers of domestic violence and their family members were focused on the prevention of addiction and awareness of the risks and effects of using stimulants and other drugs, acquisition of knowledge about alcoholism.

 

4) MEETINGS WITH LAWYER - group classes and individual meetings, were targeted for legal counseling for victims of domestic violence (legal advices from the Civil Code, Family Code, Guardianship Code, relating to divorce, maintenances, separation, division of property, eviction, help in editing letters to the courts and other institutions, in obtaining informations to which institutions the victims may report to, what kind of support they can receive, what rights they have, etc.).

 

5) GROUP THERAPY CLASSES for 25 people - a group of children and youth from families affected by or at risk of violence, including children using violence against members of their family. Within this group, throughout the duration of the project, they held classes with educator and psychologist, aimed at inculcating positive role models, controlling aggression, preventing development of violence in adulthood and providing mutual support. In addition, there were organized art therapy classes, led by artist and dance therapist.

 

During the project there were organised:

 

1. From 12 to 23 of June 2014. art competition under the slogan ‘The close don’t hurt – the close love’, directed to students of middle schools and high schools througout Bartoszyce. The contest was attended by 31 people. Three of them were awarded and 9 participants received extra awards. All the other entrants received diplomas for their participation. The winning works were used as graphic elements in promotional project’s materials.