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Persefona o. s.
Mgr. Jitka ČechováMgr. Eva Oujezská
Mgr. Silvie Štěpánová
Europe is facing domestic violance The 5. June 2012
Content
- Activities of civic association Persefona- Work with the victim of sexual violance- Work with the offender of home violance
Professional activities
Activities of o.s. Persefona are charakterized by three pillars:
Profesional social counseling to victims of domestic violance sexual abuse rape
Education of lay and professional public – conferences, lectures, seminars, tailored courses, accredited courses of MPSV
Analysis, publication and expert services
Professional activitiesExpert social consultancy
free of charge confidentiality complexity possibility of long-term cooperation interdisciplinary approach
Outpatient and outreach services law – accompaniments, drafting legal submissions,
representation and so on psychologic – support, socio-therapeutic activities social – socio-therapeutic activities, accompaniments,
negotiations with the authoritiesForms: personal, e-mail and telephone consultations
Ensure the activities
Initiation of independent activities in 2007, the EPS and LLP 1999 Law on Social Services - expert social consultancy
Offices in South Moravia: Brno, Ivančice, Židlochovice, Slavkov u Brna, Tišnov
Staffing: 8 people expert advisors → 4 full-time(time work combined with managerial positions, 5 part-time → 2 social workers; 1,2 lawyer; 0,8 psychologist)
Ensure the activities Uncertainty of funding
- declining revenues from the state budget- significant share of foreign income, which ends- undeveloped donating
Sources of income and their percentage distribution in order to ensure the activities of Persefona o. s.
Source/ year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Goverment grants 93,5% 89,1% 49,5% 38,2% 36,8%
EU structural funds - - - 19,6% 39%
Norway grands and EEA funds - - 33,2% 30,2% -
Foundation foreign and domestic
- 5,4% 9% 2,9% 6%
Sponsorship 6% 1,2% 4,6% 7,6% 8,1%
Sales of services 4,1% 4,1% 3,5% 1,4% 10%
Interest 0,1% 0,2% 0,2% 0,1% 0,1%
Statistics
Clients: 170 persons per year, personal consultation 1-2h, 2 consultants
Client statistics in 2011:
Victims of sexual violence account for approximately 25%
type of contact persons contacts
personal constultations 1-2h 165 788
telephonic constulations 60 1041
e-mail contacts 24 552
249 2381
Public education and prevention activities
Lectures of o. s. Persefona trained lay and professional public:r. 2010 – 256 persons (116 people in an accredited course)
r. 2011 – 427 persons (261 people in an accredited course)
Since 2007, regularly realize training ofsocial workers and workers in social services - accredited courses MLSAMasaryk University students – social workshigh school students
and educational activities on the 25th November International Day against Violence against Women
Public education and prevention activities
Also organize - roundtables for experts, - public meetings,- public lectures,- open days, - benefit of Jana Pere - a další
Cases
Karolina, 22 year old, victim of sexual abuse in the family sexual abuse lasted 13 years (from 5 to 18 years) abuser was the stepfather she sought help, because she feared for her younger sister first contact - e-mail: how to prevent father's contact with his
daughter (her sister) forms of contact: personal, e-mail and telephone consultations cooperation already takes 10 months
Work with the client
The first personal meeting with client Karolina - two counselor - a lawyer and psychologist
The client does not want to solve her own situation, but her sister´s, and she is not able to talk about her own experiences
Suspicion of abuse of her sister draws on her own experience, but she is not ready for drastic legal solution – to file a complaint on the stepfather, as it was recommended in another organization which she had contacted previously
Contract – to avoid contact of the daughter with her stepfather, but she does not wish to solve the problem of abuse itself
What next?
Recommended OSPOD contacted by place of residence, which should initiate appropriate action
Searched and mediated contacts on children's psychological workplace, mother and sister of the client had visited them
Made a complaint about the abuse of Karolina, contacted police and agreed upon interrogation
Accompanying the client to the police at a first hearing, support Offered long-term psychological (therapeutic) help - client did
not use Furher was Carolina able to solve her situation on her own
Specifics of work with the victim of sexual violence
Establishing of a confidence - the possibility of anonymous contact, first form of contact is mostly e-mail
Possibility of long-term solution – the legal solution takes for months and psychological work and support as well
No paymant Complexity - legal, social, psychological Interdisciplinary approach - social service, police, psychologists,
crisis services for children, office for socio-legal protection of children
Knowledge of the specifics of work with traumatized clients - confidence, security, power and control, intrinsic value
Therapy of the offenders of domestic violance
requirements on the part of persons at risk and violent → comprehensive assistance
Safe coexistence– therapy of the offenders of domestic violance, conference 2005, League of Human Rights
2010 introducing a new project program→ abandonment of violent behavior with the support of organizations and institutions → break the cycle of generational transfer
Ministry of the Interior – funding 2010, 2011
cooperation with the Probation and Mediation Service, marital and family counseling, courts, police
Therapy of the offenders of home violance
Persefona in the role of mediator, guarantees therapy, limited financial resources
Individual therapy • building responsibility for violent behavior• socialization of men• social skills training
Methodology of work with the violent person
Number of clients of 2011
The options of the legal codeReasonable restrictions and reasonable obligations undergo an appropriate program of social re-
education and training. undergo appropriate psychological counseling
programs.
Surveillance Regular personal contact of the offender with the
officer. Probation and Mediation Service, cooperation in the
development and implementation of probation supervision plan during the probationary period and monitoring of offender compliance with conditions imposed by the court or at law.
When can be imposed?
abandon punishment in probation with parole
sentence to custody in probation
reprieve imprisonment with parole in probation
release in probation
community service sentence + reasonable restrictions and obligations
residence interdiction sentence + reasonable restrictions and obligations
The options of the penal code
§ 3 PC – Interest groups of citizens authorized to operate in stopping and preventing the crime.
§ 307 PC Stoppage prosecution in probation
Possibilities of the Act on Social and Legal Protection of Children
§ 12 paragraph 2 point. b)– municipal authority with extended powers may impose an obligation to use parents to help professional counseling facility, if the parents are not able to solve problems associated with raising a child without the help of professional counseling, especially in disputes about how to modify the child's care or treatment to the child
The realization of therapy in custody
can not be imposed by an addition custody
may be part of the treatment program - special educational activities - individual and group educational and psychological effects
participation is voluntary – the offender can not be penalized for refusing
When therapy can be
implemented Voluntarily 1. offender enters the organization by himself2. offender treatment is offered in recognition of Police3. offender is offered treatment by Probation and Mediation
Service during or after punishment4. treatment is offered to offender serving his sentence
Unvoluntarily1. within reasonable limits and reasonable obligations2. under the supervision3. to the parents in disputes over child care arrangements or
adjustment to the child