1. Results of Mapping in Austria (app. 8 Million inhabitants)
PRO TRAIN
second partner meeting,
14th to 15th of December 2007

2. Which kind of institutions/organisations received the questionnaire?
Women councelling centres against VAW
Domestic abuse intervention centres
Women shelters
Network of Women‘s Shelters (AÖF)
Women helplines
City of Vienna/Vienna Women‘s Health Programme
We did not include training in the police and training of other professionals which is done internaly and is not organized with a multi-agency approach

3. How many and which kind of institutions responded?
20 questionnaires were send directly to organisations (28 more indirectly through networks)
13 organisations responded
5 Women councelling centres against VAW
3 Domestic abuse intervention centres
1 Women shelter (Vienna)
1 Network of Women‘s Shelters (AÖF)
2 Women helplines
1 City of Vienna/Vienna Women‘s Health Programme
2 organisations promised to answer later

4. Identified good material
Core examples:
Vienna Women‘s Health Programme/Curriculum „Gewalt gegen Frauen und Kinder“ – Report
Training concepts „Gegen Gewalt an Frauen handeln“ (1996) for different professionals (funded by the Minister for Women developed by experts from women‘s NGOs):
1 basic concept, special concepts for: women‘s services, psycho-social professions, legal professions, health professions, teachers; concept for multi-professional training)
Adapted material from S.I.G.N.A.L (Interreg Projekt, 2007)
Film „Sign of Escape“, by Nina Kusturica (2003), realized in co-operation with the Austrian Women‘s Shelter Network

5. Identified gaps – What is needed?
Training concepts:
Rather well developed training concepts; gaps: situation and needs of specific groups/intercultural competences, human rights, substance abuse&violence, violence against men, interventions with perpetrators
List of possible target groups in the health sector was expanded (social workers in health; professions working with disabled people; physio-therapists; students of health professions; substance abuse services; services for people with mental health problems; management of organisations)
Trainings:
Trainings are not organized on a regual basis but rather ad hoc
Many potential target groups, but many are not or hardly reached
Main mentioned target groups in the health care sector: 1. nurses (10/13), 2. psyhologist/therapists (9/13), 3. doctors/midwifes (8/13), 4. first aid sector (6/13)
Ad hoc training / training „on demand“ seems to be an important strategy – for ProTrain: see it as potential rather than as deficit?
Few Train the Trainer seminars which might lead to lack of trainers as well as inconsistency in the standards of trainings
Lack of systematic implementation within the groups of professionals
Lack of compulsory training for all relevant groups within organisations
Lack for training for the management level
Possible reasons:
Lack of clear policies and guidlines within organisations = gaps on the management level in general and the human resource management in particul
Lack of integration of training on DV within the basic training of professionals

6. Conclusion for PRO TRAIN programme in European context
Some considerations
Dual strategy:
Improving training within (health-)organisations
Establishing permanent training instituts run by experts on VAW: providing expertise and trainers for internal training and organising interdisciplinary training
Establishing and improving standards and guidlines
Adressing the management level of organisations through training
Assitisting specific organisation develop standards through training
Creating the need for training
Responding to demands more flexibly

7. REMINDER Coucil of Europe Campaign
„Stop domestic violence against women“
Website:
Reports, material of conferences and regional seminars
Reports on standards for services and data and statistics
Task Force report autum 2008