Responding to Child to Parent Violence

Action Research Project Feb 2013 – Jan 2015 With financial support from the DAPHNE programme of the European Commission

European Context

        Children who are violent to parents or carers is a hidden aspect of family violence across Europe DAPHNE II projects looked at understanding this issue – work in Spain Very important ¾ million Euros DAPHNE III JUST/2011 2012/DAP/AG/3086 project – funded by the European Commission Five European countries – Bulgaria, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and U.K.

Important cross European collaborative project:  Universities of Brighton, UK, Galway, Ireland and Valencia, Spain   Municipalities of Åmål, Sweden and Brighton & Hove CC UK NGO National Association XXI Century Rhodopa Mountain Initiative, Bulgaria Aims to look at how practitioners are currently responding to parents and young people experiencing this problem To develop best practice, case studies, DVDs and toolkit for professionals Very exciting to be working on this with our European Partners!

Action Research Project 2013 - 2015

        Close collaboration will be key Project Website Theory of change approach Methodology: Observation, Qualitative Interviews, Self Reflection Tools, Evaluation Measures/Scales Evaluation of two current approaches   Break4Change Non Violent Resistance Training practitioners from each country and reflecting on cultural differences Implementing and evaluating one or both models (adapted where necessary) in each country Developing toolkit, case studies and DVDs

Spain

  Interdisciplinary team composed by 23 researchers experts in politic science, sociology, physiology, social work, economy, enterprise, law and medicine.

High scientific production funded by national and European projects  6 th and 7 th FP: SSH and Health  AAL lrogramme  Daphne programme  ENPI programme  Progress programme  Youth in Action programme

Spain

  Developing 13 research lines including “Violence prevention in childhood and adolescence”.

Previous European projects:  Friends Online (Ref. JLS/2008/DAP3/AG/1275) Objective: to propose a preventive model for digital safe environments.

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BE Supportive, NOT violent! Positive parenting for

happy children! (Ref. JUST/2010/DAP3/AG/1059) Objective: to raise awareness on the negative effects of corporal and verbal punishment of children and promote positive parenting and non-violent raising of children.

Bulgaria

National Association XXI Century Rhodopa Mountain Initiative        Town/ Region Mission and vision of the Association Projects – over 25 Publications Partners – main partner: Regional Directorate of Ministry of Interior – Smolyan 29.4.2020 г .

Bulgaria

Through this project the Association aims to:

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raise awareness about the nature and extent of CPVA;

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transfer knowledge;

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research and implement best practices;

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provide a toolkit for the assessment and training of frontline workers

Sweden

     Åmål is a way of living Åmål is life in green and blue Blue as Lake Vanern Our Vision – the most friendly city in Sweden These are the keywords of Åmål:  Genuine  Caring  Active  Brave

Republic of Ireland

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NUI Galway

Located on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, the National University of Ireland, Galway has a national and international reputation for teaching and research excellence with strong connections to the Irish language, community engagement and volunteering. NUI Galway also hosts the first UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement in Ireland. Commitments to human rights and social justice are integral to the MA in Social Work Programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway.

Our local community partner for the RCPV DAPHNE Project is the COPE Galway Waterside House Refuge which provides temporary safe accommodation for women and their children who experience emotional, physical and sexual abuse within an intimate relationship.

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NUI Galway: Non Violent Resistance Programme

Developed initially in Israel, the Non Violent Resistance Programme (Omer 2004; Weinblatt & Omer 2008) is a short-term evidenced based programme for parents/ carers involving 5-10 individual sessions and telephone support.

Parents/carers are the focus of both psycho-educational and therapeutic support.

The key components include parental commitment to non violent resistance, the development of non escalation and resistance skills, the recruitment of a support network for parents and an increase in parental presence and authority in children’s lives.

NUI Galway has developed a 2 day training programme for practitioners working with children and families where child to parent violence takes place, aimed at raising awareness, increasing practitioner confidence and skills in exploring this kind of violence with parents/ carers and increasing parents skill in responding to child to parent violence.

England

Break for Change (B4C) Brighton & Hove Council has been working in partnership with the Community & Voluntary Sector since 2008 developing an intervention programme that addresses Child to Parent Abuse:

 10 week programme  Parallel groups – young peoples and parents/carers  Underpinning knowledge of what constitutes violence and abusive behaviours (including domestic and sexual violence)  Creative & film conversational elements

For both

 Parent/carers whose adolescent sons or daughters act in violent and abusive ways, and the children themselves.

The programme aims to:

 Address the young person ’ s abusive/violent behaviour, reducing the instances of abuse and violence and develop more effective relationships between parent/carer and young person.

England

Brighton & Hove City Council together with a multi-disciplinary group of partners will:  Develop RCPV training programmes integrating both the B&H Break4Change programme & NUI Galway Non Violent Resistance Programme to share knowledge  Develop with the other partners, young people and parents a training DVD and toolkit  Support the integration of therapeutic and creative elements of programmes into the other countries where relevant This builds on the foundations that were laid when local practitioners in B&H saw the need for Break4Change

Working with Child to Parent Violence: Break4Change (B4C)

 DVD [0.04:05] – [0.10.22]

Future Project Events

 ‘Responding to Child to Parent Violence’ Integrated Training Programme in Brighton & Hove    Non Violent Resistance 20 and 21 May 2013 Break4Change 22 and 23 May 2013 Further details - Sara Fisher [email protected]

 International Conference on Child to Parent Violence and Abuse, NUI Galway, Ireland, June 2014  Further details - Declan Coogan [email protected]

 End of Project Conference, Brighton, England, January 2015

Project Key Contact Details

Dr Paula Wilcox, PI, University of Brighton [email protected]

Robb Cunningham PM, University of Brighton [email protected]

Michelle Pooley, B&H City Council [email protected]

Deborah Corbridge, B&H City Council [email protected]

Sara Fisher, B&H City Council [email protected]

Anna Assenova, Nat. Assoc XXIst Century Rhodopa Mountain Initiative [email protected]

Irene Monsonis, Polibienestar Universitat de València [email protected]

Declan Coogan, National University of Ireland Galway [email protected]

Ulla Mortensen, Åmål municipality [email protected]

With financial support from the DAPHNE programme of the European Commission

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