Domestic violence against women not only impacts their psychological, emotional and physical well-being, it also inhibits their active participation in civic, social and economic life. When thinking about the consequences of domestic abuse, it is important to consider the impact (mental, emotional, physical, social and financial) on the individual survivor and theirfamily and children, and also the wider societal costs including the costs of police, health and other service responses. Domestic violence also has profound economic impacts on European countries; costing an estimated 259 billion euro per year across the EU; with violence against women costing 226 billion of that sum (EIGE, 2014).
Domestic violence devastates families and communities across Europe. Families are meant to be the bedrock of our society. They are a safe environment for children to grow and develop; surrounded by care and love. When the bedrock is fractured, society crumbles. It is for this reason that the EMPOWER project aims to support these families, especially families at-risk of violence, to build their resilience to prevent domestic violence; through the development of unique, age-appropriate education materials that can be applied to a Family-learning environment, to empower all family members to address violence in the home.
Induction to pedagogy programme for Parents
Programme for parents to build positive family relationships
Family Learning Toolkit - Comic Strips, Interactive Digital Magazines and Audio Books
In Service Training Programme for Adult Educators
Skills Zone Malta co. Limited | www.skillszone.eu
Skills Zone Malta is a training hub of professional trainers in the field of Entrepreneurship, personal development and soft skills, training people in both f2f and online environment. With 19.6 million tertiary education students in 2016 in the EU, employers are valuing more and more soft skills skill sets mainly in Communication Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Problem Solving, Presentation Skills, Time Management, Interpersonal Skills, Marketing, Goal setting, Social media and Leadership & Management. The entire team believes in experiential learning, therefore our soft skills training courses involve “learning by doing” using state-of -the art infrastructure for performing hands on exercises and real-world simulations. This extensive hands-on experience in Soft Skills Training (SST) ensures that one absorbs the knowledge and skills they will need to apply at their place of work, their business or even in their everyday life.
Ballybeen Womens Centre (BWC) | www.ballybeenwomenscentre.org
For the past 35 years Ballybeen Womens Centre (BWC) has been developing and delivering quality services in an area of low and weak community infrastructure and objectively defined as disadvantaged. BWC promotes social inclusion by involving the most marginalised and disadvantaged groups in the community in the development and management of programmes to address their needs. BWC established the Peer Education Project (PEP) in 1992 and it is now the longest established Peer Education Project in NI. The PEP aims to support, educate and empower young people to make positive health and lifestyle choices through the development and delivery of a range of peer led programmes, one-to-one mentoring and a drop-in support service.
Rightchallenge | rightchallenge.org
Rightchallenge is a non-governmental organisation which aims to promote education and training as a means of social inclusion. We believe that education must focus on the holistic development of all people, in order to prepare them to participate in all dimensions of society, such as family, work and leisure. So, as an organisation actively engaged with the community, we provide consultancy services and curriculum design in the field of adult education and community development, and support communities at risk of social exclusion with volunteering opportunities and socio-educational programmes aiming to improve digital and media literacy skills.
CARDET is one of the leading research and training centers in the eastern Mediterranean region with global expertise in project design and implementation, project management, training and e-learning. CARDET has completed numerous projects relating to the development of adult and vocational training initiatives in the areas of social work, innovation and entrepreneurship. Members of its team and board represent European and International Higher education institutions, training centers and international organizations, and have in-depth knowledge of the adult training sector and financial literacy area while CARDET focuses in the promotion of social justice and social progress. CARDET brings together an international team of experts with decades of global expertise in adult training, capacity building, curriculum development, social entrepreneurship, vocational training, design thinking, innovation, education research, evaluation, and human resource development.
Skills Elevation FHB | www.skillselevationfhb.com
Skills Elevation FHB was founded in 2016 with a mission to provide an alternative educational methodology to support the social, emotional and cognitive development of marginalised groups and front-line educators to integrate new pedagogic approaches into their everyday practice. The company is committed to providing a creative space and a ‘living lab’ for educational innovation, experimentation and development with a view to offering new methodologies and resources to address persistent social, economic and integration issues that pertain in all EU Member States. FHB focuses on applying the expertise available to design and produce state-of-the-art learning and teaching materials using open-source technologies for both non-formal and informal settings.
VsI Socialiniu inovaciju centras (SIC) | https://en.socin.lt
VsI Socialiniu inovaciju centras (SIC) is private non for-profit regional organisation operating from 2009. SIC has enough human resources – totally 14 paid staff members (trainers, social workers, psychologists, projects managers, etc.) and methodologies (research, dissemination, evaluation, etc.) to carry out international projects. As well SIC has a large network of experts and volunteers (34 with volunteering agreements) available for special activities.
Spectrum Research Centre (SRC) | www.spectrumresearchcentre.com
Spectrum Research Centre (SRC) was established in 2017, to support social and academic researchers in our region to test research hypotheses and validate findings through local research actions. As such, we support social and academic researchers to bring their research into action, and to participate in engaged research and participatory action research in a community setting. In addition, we provide training programmes that encourage older workers and retirees to develop their skills as social researchers; and afford local social researchers the opportunity to bring a European perspective to their research. SRC also engages as partners in a number of European projects addressing issues from work-place learning to the prevention of school bullying, and from migrant integration to ‘greening’ the EntreComp Framework, raising awareness about the European Green Deal, among other topics.
Project Overview
Domestic violence against women not only impacts their psychological, emotional and physical well-being, it also inhibits their active participation in civic, social and economic life. When thinking about the consequences of domestic abuse, it is important to consider the impact (mental, emotional, physical, social and financial) on the individual survivor and theirfamily and children, and also the wider societal costs including the costs of police, health and other service responses. Domestic violence also has profound economic impacts on European countries; costing an estimated 259 billion euro per year across the EU; with violence against women costing 226 billion of that sum (EIGE, 2014).
Domestic violence devastates families and communities across Europe. Families are meant to be the bedrock of our society. They are a safe environment for children to grow and develop; surrounded by care and love. When the bedrock is fractured, society crumbles. It is for this reason that the EMPOWER project aims to support these families, especially families at-risk of violence, to build their resilience to prevent domestic violence; through the development of unique, age-appropriate education materials that can be applied to a Family-learning environment, to empower all family members to address violence in the home.
Aim & Objectives
Aim
EMPOWER project addresses domestic violence in the home, and aims to support families to develop their resilience to prevent instances of domestic abuse. EMPOWER is innovative, as it will adopt a whole-family approach to addressing this issue, by engaging parents as educators and providing a toolkit of learning materials to support all age groups - from young children to senior adults in the family - to build strong, healthy and positive family relationships.
Objectives
EMPOWER project will:
- Provide learning materials and activities for families that will support them to maintain healthy relationships in the family.
- Provide comic strips for young children aged 8-12 so that they can be supported to talk about their feelings and concerns in a family context.
- Provide training for parents so that they can be educators in their families, and so that they can also learn about how to prevent unhealthy relationships in their families.
- Pilot the EMPOWER training package with 10 local families in each country, to ensure that local families experience the positive impact of this project.
- Promote self-care and well-being among all members of the family
- Ensure that mechanisms and structures are in place to facilitate consultation with individuals and groups regarding the identification of their needs and their participation in the design and delivery of services to meet such needs
- Ensure all activities and learning materials are inclusive
- Respond to policy consultations and where possible influence policy developments
Outputs
Induction to pedagogy programme for Parents
Programme for parents to build positive family relationships
Family Learning Toolkit - Comic Strips, Interactive Digital Magazines and Audio Books
In Service Training Programme for Adult Educators
Partners
