Under this logo an international consortium of disability related nongovernmental non-profit organisations is working together on the issue of the prevention of violence against children in the domestic environment. Some of them since 2002.

AIAS BOLOGNA ONLUS - Italy - web site
FENACERCI - Portugal - web site
VAIMUKAD - Estonia - web site
SUSTENTO - Latvia - web site
DISABILITY NOW - Greece - web site
DISMINUIDOS FISICOS DE ARAGON - Spain - web site
AFANIAS – Spain - web site
ÉFOÉSZ – Hungary - web site
PORAKA – Republic of Macedonia - web site
TURKISH SPASTIC CHILDREN ASSOCIATION in SINOP – Turkey - web site

Our common view:

• Children with disabilities have a higher risk to be victims of domestic violence, maltreatment and abuse than children without disabilities.
• It is an issue of global concern that affects all cultures and all social and economic classes.
• There is not a direct link between disability and violence, but in a multifactor model different factors impact on the development of stress that may lead to forms of maltreatment.
• Therefore, to prevent children with disabilities being victims of maltreatment in the domestic environment, the natural role of the family have to be strengthened by enhancing protective factors and by reducing the impact of risk factors. Further child and family support services have to be designed and developed.
• Associations, social cooperatives and ngo’s have an important role in furthering knowledge based collaboration between all relevant actors in prevention.
  

Our commitment

• To further prevention of maltreatment and to promote the rights of children with disabilities (in continuity with earlier projects)
• Designing and developing experimental dissemination activities that advance prevention and that are potentially transferable good practice. See Bologna event.
• The dissemination of the results obtained so far by the partnership following two activity lines.
  • Vertical: dissemination of the content of the first and second project within the local context (sharing expertise and capacity building).
  • Horizontal: enlarging the network including other countries that will discuss, translate and adapt the publications and develop capacity to raise the issue within the own organisation(s) (awareness raising)