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PROMISE Elpis: Adapting Barnahus processes for online sexual violence cases

Initiative

The PROMISE-Barnahus network is committed to ensuring that more and more children who have been victims of online sexual violence have a safe path to recovery.

Drawing on our collective experience in promoting and implementing excellence in practice in Barnahus, the PROMISE Elpis Project promotes multidisciplinary and interagency models for child victims and witnesses of sexual violence, with a specific focus on specialised interventions and excellence in practice in cases where there is a presumed online element of the sexual violence.

Objectives

The overall objective is to ensure early identification, adequate assistance, protection and access to child-friendly justice, with specific emphasis on cases where online technology is an integral element to the abuse, by:

  • Contributing to a competent and committed multidisciplinary teams, equipped to provide a holistic and balanced intervention, including investigation and assistance
  • Supporting specialised professional interventions and operational capacity, adapted to the specific requirements and needs that may arise in the context of cases involving some form of online child sexual violence, and
  • Contributing key experience and learning from the project to regional policy development and exchange, in particular in light of ongoing European Union strategies relevant to the field, and proposed revision of European Unions instruments.

The project will also include a strong element of child and youth participation.

A key focus of the project is to develop and evaluate protocols and procedures, to contribute to a committed and competent workforce, and to promote holistic interventions that benefit from effective interagency case management to ensure that victims in the context of online child sexual violence receive appropriate and holistic support.

The main activities of the project are:

a) the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of protocols and procedures adapted to the specific requirements and needs that may arise in the context of online sexual violence against children, and

b) the implementation of training in relation to:

  • the development of multidisciplinary teams and inter-agency cooperation in cases of online child sexual violence;
  • specialized interventions, including investigations, medical and therapeutic interventions, crisis support and victim support.
These measures aim to ensure early identification, appropriate support and protection and access to child-friendly justice for children. Primarily by ensuring the coordination of child protection and criminal justice proceedings in a child-centered, multidisciplinary manner. Against this background, the care strategies in the Childhood Homes (CHH) are examined and standardized in various multidisciplinary teams.

Region

Europe, United States

Target groups

Interagency services in Barnahus (health services, LEAs, judicial authorities and social services).

Goals

Ensure early identification, adequate assistance, protection and access to child-friendly justice, with specific emphasis on cases where online technology is an integral element to the abuse.

Website

https://sparksinthedark.net

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Contact

Carolina Canettieri - PROMISE Elpis Project Coordinator

carolina.canettieri@charite.de

Website

Funding information

“PROMISE Elpis” is funded by the European Union through its Internal Security Fund (ISF) program, with partner co-funding.

Key activities

A key focus of the project is to develop and evaluate protocols and procedures, to contribute to a committed and competent workforce, and to promote holistic interventions that benefit from effective interagency case management to ensure that victims in the context of online child sexual violence receive appropriate and holistic support.

The main activities of the project are:

a) the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of protocols and procedures adapted to the specific requirements and needs that may arise in the context of online sexual violence against children, and

b) the implementation of training in relation to:

  • the development of multidisciplinary teams and inter-agency cooperation in cases of online child sexual violence;
  • specialized interventions, including investigations, medical and therapeutic interventions, crisis support and victim support.

These measures aim to ensure early identification, appropriate support and protection and access to child-friendly justice for children. Primarily by ensuring the coordination of child protection and criminal justice proceedings in a child-centered, multidisciplinary manner. Against this background, the care strategies in the Childhood Homes (CHH) are examined and standardized in various multidisciplinary teams.

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Coordinator: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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Information

Funded by the European Union
Website
https://kinder-und-jugendpsychiatrie.charite.de/forschung/traumafolgen_und_kinderschutz/promise_elpis/
Coordinator
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Contact

Carolina Canettieri - PROMISE Elpis Project Coordinator

carolina.canettieri@charite.de

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