Steps for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Erasmus Project

Project Title

Steps for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“Smart Steps” is a project to prevent child sexual abuse and what can be done for abused children in partner institutions which are local authorities in Antalya (TR), Rezekne(LV)and Valcea(RO) cities.A school education module war created for counselors, Public Education Centers and schools. The module was developed in cooperation with the project partners from various fields of expertise.Throughout training of trainers activities and modules,counselors became responsible for diagnosis, legal procedure, communication with sexually abused students.

Training of trainers improved the pedagogical proficiency of the counselors in communicating with children and diagnose the victimized child or the recognize risks threatening the children. In the project, there was a local training program in Valcea,Antalya and Rezekne cities which was held by the counselors who attended training program in Turkey. The counselors who attended the training programs both locally and internationally were reached school teachers and parents through separately designed informative sessions. With the transmission of information, parents and teacher developed awareness about child sexual abuse, taking necessary measures in their environment, being able to recognize the signs and probable risks and starting the legal procedure.

We made the first transnational project meeting in Rhodos Directorate of Edıcation-Greece which was the old partner. This 1.TPM was at the very beginning of the project.We reviewed the form and made all responsibilities clear.We planned to make 2.TPM meeting in Rezekne with 4 participants from Turkey and 4 participants from Romani in order to analyze and report the project results and outcomes BUT because of covid 19 pandemy, we couldn’t make 2.TPM in Rezekne but we held virtual meeting succesfully.

PARTICIPANTS:There were very experienced councelor teachers from project institutions who gave the training for participants.We completed the mobility activities with total 31 participants.
1-LATVIA 10 participants
2-ROMANIA 10 participants
3-TURKEY 11 participants
There were local participants during local training of trainers activities.Partner institutions reached 500 local councelor teachers in Antalya, Valcea and Rezekne cities.

1.LTT activity in Antalya :”The training of the counselors” – A training course for counselors was arranged in Antalya, Turkey. During this course all partners presented the best practice of their own, counselors exchanged ideas and they upgraded their skills in terms of preventing Child Sexual Abuse. The participants were the onoes who were active invdeveloping ”child sexual abuse practicebook for teachers’’ and ”module”.

2.LTT activity in Valcea(RO):In order to develop ”Smart steps practicebook” which is held in C3 meeting in Latvia, we needed to develop modules to add in practicebook during C2 meeting in Romania.The modules wil be available for the general public in Valcea,Rezekne and Antalya and contented all the support training documents and tutorials for the students and teachers involved. The module is supported with the training of trainers C2 activity.Participants gained the necssary knowledge,skills aand competences during the training.The knowledge developed by the partners was crossed in order to define the main priorities / needs and to create homogeneity among the participants.

3.LTT activity in Rezekne(LV):Smart steps practice book has been designed to guide and help better understand the criminal processes for victims of sexual abuse or exploitation, what might be involved and how to get it right for victims and their families when faced with the potential of becoming involved in criminal justice proceedings. Participant staff, with frontline experience of supporting victims through such processes designed a high quality book,sharing common poor experiences of criminal justice processesin the past, based on real life examples in partner countries.

Child abuse project had local, national and international impacts in partner cities and partner countries.There are also potential long-term benefits thanks to the modules and guidebook of the project. counselors teachers will use modules and guidebook in preventing child sexual abuse.Development of modules and guidebook filled an important gap, as there was not a specific curricula designed for preventing child sexual abuse.Development of these outputs impacted the quality of education/health and well-being in our respective partners. The target groups (Counselors) and beneficiaries (teachers, families, children) benefited in terms of high-level basic and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective.

Each of the participating countries the representatives of different institutions had the opportunity to participate in training and share their experience, discuss current issues, also define their individual goals in the project context.

Project Website

http://childsexualabuse.rezeknesip.lv/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56205 Eur

Project Coordinator

Antalya Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Valcea
• Diefthinsi Defterovathmias Dodecanesou (Directorate of Secondary Dodecanese)
• REZEKNE CITY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT