Project name: Advice and conversation against violence and social exclusion
Project duration: 20.05.2020.-19.05.2022.
Project description:
Advice and conversation against violence and social exclusion is a project aimed at helping women victims of domestic violence. The project is led by the BaBe association Be active. Be emancipated., and partners participating in the implementation are the Center for Social Welfare Županja, the Center for Social Welfare Vinkovci, the Center for Social Welfare Sisak, the Center for Social Welfare Novska, and the Volunteer Center of Vukovar-Srijem County.
Why is this project important?
By ensuring regional availability of legal and psychosocial counseling services for victims of domestic violence, we strive to contribute to the suppression of domestic violence and violence against women, to the improvement of the social inclusion of women victims of violence and the quality of social services for this vulnerable group. In addition to direct work with victims and the professionals who provide them with support, project activities also include raising public awareness of the social problem of domestic violence and the needs of women who experience violence. By changing the attitudes of all members of society on this problem, we contribute in the long term to improving the social position of women and protecting their human rights.
What are we doing within the project?
- We provide direct and free legal counseling and psychosocial support services to women victims of violence in the Sisak-Moslavina and Vukovar-Srijem counties,
- We provide legal information and support to victims throughout Croatia via a toll-free telephone line and online info desk,
- We are conducting an analysis of the existing system of support for victims of domestic violence in social welfare centers and civil society organizations.
- By implementing specialized training, we strengthen the capacities of employees of social welfare centers and civil society stakeholders to provide social services to women victims of domestic violence,
- We organize public events and create media content with the aim of raising public awareness about the problem of domestic violence.
