V National Conference: Helping children – victims of crime

V National Conference „Helping children - victims of crime" took place on 27th - 28th October 2008, in Warsaw, Poland.
As in the previous years, the main aim of the event was to find new ways of improving the situation of children who fell victims of crime, Main theme of the conference was assistance to children who experienced violence and abuse, as well as protection of child witnesses taking part in legal procedures. Conference sessions featured many Polish and international experts active in the field of child protection, including Kevin Browne (UK), Nancy Chandler (USA), Peter Adriaenssens (Belgium) and Lars Lööf (Sweden).

The event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Justice, Warsaw City Hall - Social Policy Office and the Nobody's Children Foundation.

The conference gave opportunity for presenting model solutions how to prevent crimes against children and recent theoretical and empirical outcomes concerning child abuse. A number of initiatives of social, legal and psychological assistance for children and their families were show. For the first time in Poland, certificates of Child-Friendly Interview Room were awarded to institutions who successfully went through the certifying process. The conference also hosted the review of TV spots raising awareness of physical punishment and positive parenting.

In the attachments you will find conference programme, conference materials (in Polish), as well materials related to the sessions conducted by Kevin Browne: "Targeting services to families with risk factors for child maltreatment : A community health approach to preventing violence to children" and
"Cycles of Violence: The relationship between childhood victimisation and violent offending".

Professor Kevin Browne is both a Chartered Biologist and Chartered Psychologist employed by the University of Liverpool as Chair of Forensic and Child Psychology. He has been researching family violence and child maltreatment for 30 years and has published extensively on the prevention of violence to children.
More information about the conference in Polish

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conference programme.pdf	117.1 KB
conference materials.pdf	920.68 KB
Preventing child maltreatment by Kevin Browne.pdf	316.8 KB
Targeting services to families with risk factors by Kevin Browne.pdf	964.52 KB
The cycle of violence key facts by Kevin Browne.pdf	198.3 KB