PDP6 - By your side – Breaking the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence
By your side
What is the project about?
By your side – Breaking the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence project aims to establish an early-intervention model for children witnessing domestic violence and their families, to address trauma, promote prevention and break the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence. The project will complement the interventions for the mothers who are domestic violence victims.
What will it achieve?
- Immediate support and response, to children, on the day(s) following the episode of domestic violence registered by the police or other stakeholder, in articulation with their family members, taking into account that the perpetrator is usually part of this family unit.
- Preventive action against the normalization gender-based violence and breaking victimization and aggression cycles.
- Specialized response to children who lose their parents or legal representatives in a homicide in the context of domestic violence.
- Coordinated intervention between the national child and youth protection system and the national support network for victims of domestic violence, within their respective competences.