MIND

How to understand family conflicts in order not to make victims

This project refers to point a) of the announcement (direct enforcement, use, and dissemination of existing good practices) and to the priority action of 2005 as well (exchange of info and experiences in the victim support area and the multidisciplinary cooperation aimed at acting in response to either identified violence or vulnerability of risk groups), by promoting the exchange of info and experiences, especially among new and old state members.

The project partners could be : CNV Italia (conveying partner and action leader), Belgium (conveying partner), Lithuania (receiving partner), Latvia (receiving partner), Slovenija (receiving partner).

This project aims at conveying the successful experiences already taken over by two previous Dafne project, within family mediation (“Matilde”, and “Ancora Matilde”) By treasuring the acquired experiences we would like to promote “services centres” of family mediation in other countries recently admitted into the EU (legal consulting, listening and reception rooms for families in trouble for domestic conflicts and violences, familiy mediation services). In fact, in some of them the Family Mediation tool is still unknown, despite the great interest it could have in resolving family conflicts.

The project includes:

1. Publication of brochures already available for dissemination (in schools, woman and family organizations, social services and courts), and adaptation to the context of the receiving partners, averaging approximately 3200 copies; Translation and adaptation of a little book as training and info aid on FM in countries receiving CNV experience 500 copies.
2. Implementation of info and training seminars to be scheduled in each of the receiving countries open to 15 participants maximum (lawyers, public or private social workers) according to the standards already provided with by the European Forum on FM.
3. Training will be 180 hour long, 120 of which in Italy, 30 online and 30 as formative credit.5) Online counselling.6) Implementation of a telematic forum on FM on CNV Web site and a European network of online FM centers.
4. Seminar of preliminary coordination followed by a final seminar at the CNV headquarters, with exchange of pilot experiences in countries which participated to the previous Dafne programs on FM (“Matilde” and “Ancora Matilde” projects).
5. Telematic forum on the above mentioned issues and collection of bibliography materials.