Detailed information about the project

The aim of the project is to minimize the threat of violence in the family by planning and using a complete anti-violence system containing various complementary activities designed for people connected with the situation of home violence: the persecuted, witnesses and agressors.

The activities of the project are focused on increasing the availability and quality of services for the sake of people affected with domestic violence. The Project includes distributing of educational information for all participants. The materials will be adjusted to fit the demands of every group.

The activities of the project are focused on increasing the availability and quality of services for the sake of people affected with domestic violence, also specialised counceling for various categories of victims.

Types of activities of the Project:

 

A Mobile Information-Counseling Point for people affected or threatened with domestic violence: 2 x month / 4 hours.
Number of shifts: 18.
Time: June - September 2014 (9 shifts), May - August 2015 (9 shifts)

We decided to make it easier to access the information and specialized counseling by creating the Mobile Information-Counseling Point at different locations in Lublin'd districts. As part of the project we will buy a mobile tent signed with the mark of the project, where specialists and volunteers will take shifts. Anyone interested in the subject will be able to make use of it. It is a nationally innovative action. The institution goes out to people, making the contact with CIK therapists easier. What is new, is that the specialists go out from the institution to meet their potential clients. We plan to organize 18 4-hour shifts throughout the city of Lublin, where people could take information materials or sign up for the workshops apart from meeting the counselor.

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Open law education workshops for people affected or threatened with violence.
2 x a month x 4 hours.
Number of participants: 100 people.
Time: August - December 2014

The classes take form of workshops and emphasize the practical use of the knowledge including most up to date judicial decisions. We plan a 6-month cycle of workshops for all participants. Law education workshops are innovative nationaly, because no one took such initiative before. As researches show Polish citizens have very little knowledge of law and great need to access such information. What is also new, is the practical approach towards the knowledge and ability to act independently. What is more, we plan to organize a real-life model of court trial and a visit to the court, police station to lower the fear of victims towards law procedures.

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Artetherapeuthic workshops for children (5-10 y.o.) affected or threatened with domestic violence.
2 x a month x 4 hours
Number of participants: 10 people
Time: January - June 2015

Acknowledging the need to work with all family members we created our programme to work with children in the age of 5-10 who are threatened or affected with domestic violence. The aim of the meetings is to create a space where the children could actively react to the troubling emotions connected to the domestic violence.
During the workshops we will use artetherapeutic methods and techniques, which are friendly and supprisingly effective while working with youth. We will organize drum playing classes, integrational dancing, theatre improvisation, fotography, frame after frame animation and movies.
As part of the project, we plan to organize a field trip for children, connected with the workshops.
These types of activities will be held for the first time within our institution, they are innovative when considering the methods of work and the fact that there is no such offer in the area.
Our workshops are based on the idea, that artistic action is a projection of feelings and emotional states. Well aimed actions will trigger a new, safe channel of expression, which will be perfect to work with a group of children.

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Artetherapeutic workshops for women affected with domestic violence.
1 x a week x 3 hours.
 Number of participants: 10 people.
Time: February - April 2015

The group is designed for women affected with violence, who are not aware of their resources and abilities to cope with it, are lacking self esteem, are socially withdrawn and helpless. Throughout our actions we want to achieve their: awareness of personal resources, improving their self esteem, knowledge of own rights, creating the feeling of independence and security, improving social awareness, coping with difficult feelings, planning the future, creating short term life goals. We think, that the key effect of the work would be exiting the role of the victim and greater awareness of strengths and resources, comming out of social isolation.

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Training of interpersonal skills for couples and marriages threatened with violence.
1 x a week x 4 hours
Number of participants: 14 people
Time: October - December 2014

We base this programe on Nonviolent Communication by Marshalla B. Rosenberg, which is widely used in family and marriage mediations and in solving conflicts between co-workers. The workshops will take form of group activities for couples (max. 14 people) threatened with violence due to negative violent patterns of partner behiavor in their families or couples who find their first relationship hard to deal with constructively.
We find the actions innovative as no one offers such workshops in the area. Apart from that, changing the violent patterns of behavior is beneficial at the first stage of couples / marriages relationship, before they are solidified. Replacing them with constructive patterns gives an opportunity to permanently lower the generation transmittion of negative patterns.

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Small-talks for parents regarding cases of violence towards children in nurseries.
2 x a month x 3 hours
Number of participants: 100 people
Time: October 2014, February 2015, May 2015

The aim of the classes for parents is to increase their awereness to the subject of psychological and physical violence towards children. The meetings will be held in various educational outposts in the city of Lublin, increasing the availability of the service and possibility of counsel with a specialist in the area of preventing domestic violence. We will give out information materials at the meetings (100 sets) concerning the subject of the project. There will be a possibility to meet the psychologist and appointing a personal meeting at the CIK.

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Behavioral training of constructive behavior for people affected with domestic violence
 1 x a week x 3 hours
 Number of participants: 10 people
Time: January - March 2015

The aim of the training is to improve certain interpersonal skills, which are helpful in changing the situation of violence. Especially, people who are affected with violence need to strengthen the patterns of behavior and skills helping to deal with difficult situations in a constructive way. The participants of training have a chance to recognize their current models of behavior and experience new safe ways to experience new models.

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Starting a self-helping group for women affected by domestic violence
1 x a month x 4 hours
Number of participants: 14 people
Time: August - December 2014

Self-helping group for women - is a necessary link in the system of help and psychotherapy for victims of domestic violence. Women who are part of the group - support eachother, help eachother to cope with difficulties and crisises, gain knowledge, exchange information, teach eachother new ways of constructive behavior, break social isolation and the feeling of shame. The work of the group will be supervised by a PTP professional certified psychotherapist.

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Workshops for parents of teenagers who show agressive behiavior.
1 x a week x 4 hours x 10 meetings
Number of participants: 14 people
Time: March - June 2015

The classes are aimed to the parents, whose children - teenagers, show agressive behavior.
Workshops are strictly connected to Violence Replacing Training for teenagers and are aimed to paralelly work with their parents. Such complex approach is innovative in the area as it helps to appropriately act on both the parent as well as the teenager (potential perpetrator). The classes support the parents not only with their educational skills, but olso to deal with a specific problem which is agression among the youth. The workshops will take form of group meetings (2 workshops together with the children).

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Special personal counsel.
20 hours - a month
 Number of participants: minimum 200 people
Time: July 2014 - November 2015

We are aware of the need of individual consulting and troubles with accessing specialist help in Lublin. That is why we took into consideration shifts of specialists that will individually support each member of the workshops and supporting people who could not enlist to the project. As part of the project w offer 20 hours of counseling every month to prevent violence. The members will receive carefully adjusted information materials. Specialists on duty will include: lawyer, psychologists, teacher, social worker and family counselor.

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Supervising employees of CIK.
10 hours x a month for 18 month
Number of participants: 15 people

Employees who work with people troubled with difficult life situations are under risk of "burn-out", being tired with emotions, responsibility for others or adjusting their approach to every client. The burn-out may cause lack of will to work, routine and decreasing effectiveness of making decisions. The aim of supervision is to help the employee to realize their work experience, possible obstacles on the side of the employee and the client, as well as providing high quality of service. The supervision of CIK employees will allow to increase competence and efficiency of help provided to the customers.

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Renovation of the intervention apartment

Finishing the renovation in the place of shelter, mostly for women with children, trafficking of human beings and for people after various crysis.

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