How to prevent child bullying cases, to find an approach to children who have been abused by their relatives, peers or just strangers, how to help them, protect them and most importantly – to prevent further violence. That is what about police and international organization representatives will talk in Mariupol during next for days. Such trainings are the result of long cooperation of police of district with international partners.
A forum on children’s safety took place in the regional police chief on the initiative of the law enforcements of Donetsk region and with the assistance of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine on December 2016. There were discussed the reasons for the departure of minors from home and ways to help children who found themselves in a ‘risk group’.
It’s important for cops to upgrade their skill in work with children, to look for new forms of interaction with kids to understand better their problems and to help children to cope with them. Police staff, responsible for work with kids, will take part in special training, which will be held on March 21-24 in Mariupol in the ranks of UNICEF program. The goal of it is the assistance in the implementation of urgent measures in providing the vital psychosocial and protective environment for children and youth in the east of Ukraine.
International specialists will help to law enforcements, who are engaged in juvenile prevention, to improve their skills that they can correctly help to a kid, цho found himself in a difficult life situation and could be subjected to violence by adults and peers.
According to the data of PR-Department of Donetsk region, 20 employees of juvenile prevention will take part in training. The main goal is to learn how to to competently communicate with the child, so that he doesn’t shut himself and doesn’t hide the facts of violence against himself.
‘Totally we have 67 people of staff, working in this subdivision. Of course, it’s very little number, counting that 580 families with more than 960 children, who are in difficult living conditions, were registered.
Afterwards, nearly 7000 of children live in settlements on the Line of Contact. All of them need support and help. That’s why by initiative of the region police head the representatives of different services are acted in the work with kids. Every meeting with a kid must be the most effective, useful and informative. And support from international specialists is very important for us’, Ekaterina Shneider, acting as the Head of the juvenile prevention of the management of the preventive activities of the State Department of National Police in the Donetsk region noted.