Persefona o. s. Mgr. Jitka Čechová Mgr. 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 activities Expert 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 authorities Forms: personal, 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 Goverment grants93,5%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% Sponsorship6%1,2%4,6%7,6%8,1% Sales of services4,1% 3,5%1,4%10% Interest0,1%0,2% 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 contactpersonscontacts personal constultations 1-2h telephonic constulations contacts24552 

Public education and prevention activities Lectures of o. s. Persefona trained lay and professional public: r – 256 persons (116 people in an accredited course) r – 427 persons (261 people in an accredited course) Since 2007, regularly realize training of  social workers and workers in social services - accredited courses MLSA  Masaryk University students – social works  high 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 Work with the victim of sexual violance

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 - how to prevent father's contact with his daughter (her sister)  forms of contact: personal, 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  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

Work with the offenders of domestic violance

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 legal framework of the treatment of home violence offenders

The options of the legal code Reasonable 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 himself 2. offender treatment is offered in recognition of Police 3. offender is offered treatment by Probation and Mediation Service during or after punishment 4. treatment is offered to offender serving his sentence  Unvoluntarily 1. within reasonable limits and reasonable obligations 2. under the supervision 3. to the parents in disputes over child care arrangements or adjustment to the child

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