Youth participation for prevention of child abuse and neglectDerman Orhan, Baransel Aysun, Güngör Emre, Kaynak Hatice, Dağlı Şahin FigenTSPCAN (Turkish Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.) Objectives and... [ view full abstract ]
Youth participation for prevention of child abuse and neglect
Derman Orhan, Baransel Aysun, Güngör Emre, Kaynak Hatice, Dağlı Şahin Figen
TSPCAN (Turkish Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.)
Objectives and study: Participation of young people in social responsibility projects and increment of their awareness of child abuse and neglect will grant hope for the future.Taking part in such a project will have positive effect on the perspective of future professionals to work with children.
Method: Consists of students coming from different faculties of various universities, mainly from branches that will work with children in the future . Before going to the primary school, all participants completed the course of the child neglect and abuse for two weeks. Then they started to set up a modul for activity under the control of the their trainers.They went to primary school every two weeks. they gave the pretest and posttest evaluation to the primary school students.
Results: The Project of Youth Participation was composed of two parts. First of all, 12 training seminars were given to all members of youth division by experienced professionals working in the area of child rights, child abuse and neglect and child development. Following the training seminars, a group of university students were asked to go to a suburban primary school to apply the coaching program to 5th grade students of a primary school (11 years old children).
Conclusion: At the end of programme, children are expected to be able to speak up for themselves, say NO to abuse. Thus, by being trained by young people, children who are in pre-puberty period will be able to have a role model.
Key Words: Youth, primary school students, child abuse and neglect
