Social and Health care teachers against violence (..
Social and Health care teachers against violence (HEVI 2008-2010)
The reason for the project was to respond to the need of health and social care teachers’ research based further education on intimate partner violence (IPV) in Europe. In most European countries only basic training material on IPV is available and there is a lack of training on teaching and tutoring methods specialized in IPV. Intimate partner violence is a very recent subject in basic education of Health and Social care professionals and just in few countries the issue includes in curriculums. Teachers’ further education programs don’t include IPV issues. There are former innovations of the training curriculum on IPV in Finland, Germany and Ireland and those will be transferred to the Teachers’ training curricula and the Teaching guidebook in the project. The main aims and objectives of the project were to1) support teachers to update their knowledge about intimate partner violence (IPV), European research and new principles and measures in preventing violence, 2) improve teachers’ abilities to meet new challenges of IPV prevention which originate from practical work in Health and Social care sector at national level as well as from European co-operation 3) promote involvement of the teachers in the curriculum development at institutional and national planning level on IPV issues 4) bring new innovations and improve quality of the vocational education by developing a continuing education curriculum and tools and methods for teaching and tutoring on IPV5) contribute inclucion of IPV prevention in the national strategies of vocational education6) transfer innovative and good practices practices in vocational education through the network and co-operation between educational organisations on IPV issues at European level Key partners in the project were the teachers for their pedagogical knowledge and abilities to develop methods and tools. Partners were health and social care education institutes (colleges, universities of applied sciences, university colleges) in Finland, Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany and Estonia. Dissemination partners were representatives of the governmental bodies; Ministry of Health/Medical Professional Education centre/Latvia; Ministry of Health/Bulgaria; Ministry of Labor, Family and Equal Opportunities/NAFP/Romania; Ministry of Public Health/Romania and Ministry of Social Affairs/Estonia as dissemination partners. The partners had been selected so, that their expertise will complete each other to reach project aims. There was also the backing of the WHO, regional office for Europe, for his project. The project produced as tangible results the social and health care Teachers’ training curriculum on IPV and the Teaching guidebook. Teaching guidebook included ideas, methods and tools for teaching and working as a tutor for students. Intangible outcomes were teachers and students improved awareness and skills to tackle intimate partner violence: they can identify and confront the violence as well as help women and child victims which live trough the domestic violence. It is expected that quality of Health and Social services will improve.The impact envisaged of this project is to devise a European training system of Health and Social education on IPV and to improve the quality of teaching on IPV at European level.
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