Upskilling social care professionals in local authorities to prevent gender-based violence

UpCARE project aims to test and validate a training model for upskilling professionals working in the social care sector inorder to provide counseling to famillies with children in primary schools and prevent children’s behaviours which may result to gender based violence in their adulthood. The project will design a training for professionals in social care services in the two pilot Municipalities with the contribution of the trainees who will provide their feedback at various moments of the training material development. 

The results expected to be achieved are the following:

1. Development of training material for social care professionals and conduct of training sessions
2. An assessment of the attitudes of professionals on gender based violence before and after the trainings
3. A pilot primary intervention of preventing gender based violence in primary schools community by targeting parents.