The European PROMISE: EU multi-country effort to explore the best multidisciplinary response model to child maltreatment in European countries

The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) was awarded an European Union grant to conduct the project: PROMISE Promoting Multidisciplinary Interagency Services for Child Victims of Violence in 2015. Project... [ view full abstract ]

The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) was awarded an European Union grant to conduct the project: PROMISE Promoting Multidisciplinary Interagency Services for Child Victims of Violence in 2015. Project partners are Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Belgium. 12 Pilot Countries benefit directly within the project and 24 European States are involved and have access to deliverables such as the reports, scorecard, website and webinars. This workshop is requested to interactively introduce the objectives, methodologies, and expected outcomes of PROMISE in two sessions (120 or 180 minutes). Leaders in the field from USA interact with European colleague’s work about research, innovation, advocacy work and implementation within different contexts.
The service, administrative, and consultant partners of the project will share: 1) The objectives of PROMISE and the circumstances that made it a necessity with a focus on promotion of child-friendly, multi-disciplinary and interagency (MD/IA) services supporting child victims of violence. 2) The United Nations and European Union laws on which PROMISE is based. 3) What tasks and activities PROMISE has been carrying out including stakeholder mapping of services for child victims of violence in 24 European countries, developing and disseminating the best MD/IA practices, strategies, teaching and advocacy materials and data collection methodologies in European countries. 4) Expected outcomes and outputs from PROMISE 5) Preliminary results of PROMISE since its kick-off meeting October 20-21, 2015.
The presenters will engage the audience through an interactive session with their input to expected outcomes, regional needs and recommendations to the presenters to consider in the final list of outputs. The audience will be informed of the capacity of the above described service delivery across Europe, how to promote good practices, strategies and standards for MD/IA collaboration and how to integrate the proposed work into their country’s child protection systems.