Posted on

The Inauguration of the Violence Meter Project

On 17.03.2022, the Interdisciplinary Team joined the debate on violence prevention held by the First Club of Soroptimist International in Wrocław and the Plakaciary or Poster Girls movement. The debate was a kick-off event for the Violence Meter project. The Violence Meter is a combined prevention, education, and help tool for preventing family violence aimed mainly at young people. The project will include the following components:

  1. Bookmark:
    for recognising violent behaviour on the part of the partner. The ruler on the bookmark has behaviours that intensify as the numbers grow to quickly recognise a healthy or violent relationship.
  2. Portal for education and information:
    the website will offer a Violence Meter bookmark file for download and distribution and a visualisation of behaviours on the ruler. Furthermore, the website will collect information for people searching for help and witnesses of violence. Those who provide help will find the educational section interesting.
  3. The alarm and help app:
    for directly contacting professional help during a nervous breakdown.

Violence Meter

was designed in Latin America and introduced in France in 2019 by the mayor of Paris, International Observatory on Violence against Women in Saint-Denis, and En Avant Toute(s).

Posted on

The “Blue Card” Training Cycle – Response, Intervention, Help. Intervention in the Face of a Crisis Caused by Family Violence

A yearly training cycle ‘Blue card—response, intervention, help. Intervention and the crisis caused by family violence’ started on 4 March 2022. The training is intended for representatives of the Municipal Social Assistance Centre, social workers, family assistants, and consultants from workgroups. The action plan is to educate 100 employees of the centre on family violence prevention. The training will build the competencies of the staff to improve the quality of the help they offer. The training meetings hosted by the Head of the Interdisciplinary Team for Family Violence Prevention consist of two targeted training modules. The lecture and workshop modules cover such issues as

  • The definition, forms, cycle, and risk factors for family violence.

  • The ‘Blue Card’ procedure.

  • Intervention—responding to family violence.

  • Profile of violence victims, including the abused child.

  • Profile of perpetrators and perpetrator-targeted intervention.

  • The psychological mechanisms between the victim and the perpetrator.

  • Statutory competencies of the services and organisations involved in the ‘Blue Card’ procedure.

  • The role of NGOs in workgroup effort.

  • Creating workgroups.

  • Family situation diagnosis and help plan.

  • Stereotypes in the work of interdisciplinary teams and workgroups.

The training cycle is scheduled for completion at the end of 2022.

Posted on

Week for Asisstance to Victims of Crime

The Interdisciplinary Team for the Prevention of Family Violence and the Municipal Social Assistance Centre in Wrocław inform that within the framework of the “Week for Assistance to Victims of Crime” , the Social Work Field Team No. 1, located at 6-8 Braniborska Street, will launch an information point where social workers will be available for free counseling.

The workers will be on duty from 21/02/2022 to 25/02/2022.

Posted on

Child Abuse: Diagnosis, Therapy, Intervention

‘Child abuse: diagnosis, therapy, intervention’ was the topic of the training on violence against children held on 8 February, one of the first educational activities taken by the Interdisciplinary Team for Family Violence Prevention in 2022.

The trainees were employees of the ‘Leśne Zuchy’ Public Kindergarten. The speakers, Benita Dobrzańska a psychologist at the Municipal Social Assistance Centre and Izabela Pawłowska Head of the interdisciplinary team discussed methods for recognising symptoms of an abused child, the range of definitions of the abused child, the effect of violence against children, responses and protective actions, relevant regulations, and the ‘Blue Card’ procedure in interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on the role of educators.

This session gathered some of the kindergarten employees. The others will improve their children-violence competencies during future sessions on 16 and 22 February 2022.

Posted on

The 30th Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity

During the 30th Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, staff of the Municipal Social Assistance Centre in Wrocław invited representatives of institutions co-creating the “Wrocław WITHOUT Violence” City Campaign to discuss effective reporting of violence, where to get help, the effect of the pandemic on the situation of victims of violence, especially children and young people, and the importance of social campaigns such as Wrocław WITHOUT Violence and White Ribbon.

Izabela Pawłowska – Chairwoman of the Interdisciplinary Team for Counteracting Family Violence, Joanna Nyczak – Director of the Department of Health and Social Affairs of the Wrocław City Hall, and Benita Dobrzańska – psychologist at the Municipal Social Assistance Centre contributed to the discussion.

The conversation starts at 2:45 under the link:

Click to listen

Posted on

Are you a victim of violence – You can count on immediate isolation of the perpetrator

If a family member is violent towards you, you can demand that the court or the police oblige them to leave your joint household and its immediate surroundings or prohibit them from entering the household and its immediate surroundings.

Article

Order to immediately leave the jointly household

Application

Request to oblige the offender to leave the household
Posted on

Substantive Assistance to Employees of Institutions Authorized to Initiate the “Blue Card” Procedure

In September, we launched the email address zi@mops.wroclaw.pl. It is meant to substantially support employees of institutions authorized to initiate the “Blue Card” procedure.

At this address, representatives of health care institutions, education, social welfare, and other entities can send inquiries on problems, violence-related interventions, initiation of the “Blue Card” procedure or filling out the Blue Card form A. Our qualified personnel will answer all your questions.

Apart from contacting us via e-mail, we encourage you to contact us by phone or in person.

The Interdisciplinary Team is located at ul. Rydygiera 43A in Wrocław, tel. (71) 78 23 591.

Posted on

Blue Card – Form A

We encourage you to watch a video tutorial on filling out the Blue Card form A.

The film was made thanks to the funding of the “ Niebieskie Abecadło” project implemented by the Social Assistance Centre in Wrocław within the framework of the “Support to local government units in creating a system for counteracting family violence” shield program.

In a simple an step-by-step manner the video shows how to prtoperly fill out the Blue Card Form A. https://youtu.be/ZR27oWxYU04