Children’s rights, UP! Preventing child sexual abuse through the promotion of key competences and healthy behaviors in young children from all cultures Erasmus Project

Project Title

Children’s rights, UP! Preventing child sexual abuse through the promotion of key competences and healthy behaviors in young children from all cultures

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Health and wellbeing; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Facilite un breve resumen de su proyecto. Recuerde que esta sección (o parte de ella) podrá ser utilizada por la Comisión Europea, la Agencia Ejecutiva o la Agencia Nacional en sus publicaciones. El resumen se volcará también a la Plataforma de Resultados de Proyectos Erasmus+. Sea conciso y breve, y mencione al menos los elementos siguientes: contexto del proyecto, objetivos del proyecto, número y perfil de los participantes, descripción de las actividades previstas, metodología utilizada para llevar a cabo el proyecto, una breve descripción de los resultados y del impacto esperados así como de los posibles beneficios a largo plazo.
Child sexual abuse is a form of children maltreatment that affects one out of five children in Europe (Europe Council, 2011). Many studies have shown that it can have a negative impact in the academic performance of children and can hamper the acquisition of key competences, especially social competences. Child sexual abuse also has severe physical and psychological consequences, both short and long-term.
The Project Children’s rights, UP! Preventing child sexual abuse through the promotion of key competences and healthy behaviors in young children from all cultures has as its main priority to develop a program for the prevention of child sexual abuse in early ages. It will be a high-quality program, efficient and realistic and will target the preschoolers’ classrooms taking into account the different cultural, religious and social sensitivities in Europe.
The objectives of the project are to: 1) improve the acquisition of key competences of boys and girls from 4 to 5 years old, emphasizing the development of social skills; 2) encourage the sexual education of boys and girls from 4 to 5 years old, promoting health; 3) overcome the existing obstacles for the development of child sexual abuse prevention programs from early ages, such as the ones posed by families, professionals and organizations; 4) offer the necessary tools so that teachers can prevent and address situations of child sexual abuse in their classrooms; 5) offer tools to families for the prevention of childhood sexual abuse from their daily life through the promotion of children’s health and well-being.
The project target groups are the early childhood education teachers, 4 and 5 years old children and their families. It will be implemented mainly in pluricultural environments with families from different origin, cultures, religious and socioeconomic level.
 
The project will use a participative methodology including the target groups in the products development through: 8 participative workshops with preescolar children from 4 different countries; 4 focus group to check and contribute to improve the first version of the project results (composed by people that were sexual abused in their childhood; experts on early childhood education; experts on sexual education in early ages and finally parents from different cultures and religions) and finally, the project will also implement a pilot test in eight schools from four countries with teachers, children and their families.
Under the project framework, five products will be developed: a didactic guide to prevent the child sexual abuse in early ages for teachers; Two tales to prevent the child sexual abuse in early ages; An online course to prevent the child sexual abuse in early ages addressed to teachers; A prevention kit addressed to families and an awareness raising kit about the project topics and issues.
Two national Seminars in Spain and Finland, one European Seminar in Italy and a European Final Conference in Brussels will be organized to present the main project results and contributions.
The project expects to make visible the necessity to tackle the prevention of child sexual abuse and the sexual education in early ages both from schools and families. It also expects to show how the prevention programme can improve also the key competences from social area and the academic results of all children at long term.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 209559 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundación Vicki Bernadet & Country: ES

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN PARENTS ASSOCIATION
• Europska seksološka federacija
• CCE Finland Oy
• NAONO SL