Project teams
Our team is composed of 6 organisations that have experience in establishing and providing specialised services to victims of violence, as well as research and analysis in identifying and responding to the needs of victims. The two expert trainers from the UK will provide their expertise in training health care professionals on the specialised support needs of victims of gender-based violence.
AÖF (Austria) Project leader - The Association of Austrian Women's Shelters Network provides the network for all of the autonomous women's shelters in Austria and undertakes information sharing and lobbying for work on women's shelters in Austria. The Director Maria Roesslhumer participated in the WAVE/UNFPA project The Response to Gender Based Violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to develop and promote a programmatic package to strengthen the health system response to gender based violence in the Region. AÖF has established a 24/7 women's helpline.
BGRF (Bulgaria) - The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation is an NGO of public utility that promotes social equality and women's human rights in Bulgaria through research, education and advocacy programs. The team of the Foundation consists of lawyers, academics, experts in advocacy, education, monitoring violations of human rights, lobbying for legislative changes, preparing publications, networking. Genoveva Tishova has extensive experience in advocacy and lobbying.
BBU (Romania) - The Babes-Bolyai University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Cluj School of Public Health has experience in FP7 and EAHC projects on health related topics as well as joint actions that focused on safety and health. BBU has closely worked with emergency departments, establishing good connections for on-going research, by developing and implementing a new project on workplace violence and safety funded by US National Institute of Health, Fogarty International Center, granted by the University of Iowa, College of Public Health. Dianna Rus is partner in capacity building projects that target the development of young researchers and professionals in the field of injury and violence prevention within the International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (ICTIRT). BBU will lead WS 1 Environmental Scan and Situational Analysis as D. Rus has performed such analyses for other international projects and can share her expertise with the team.
GESINE Network/Kompetenzzentrum Frauen und Gesundheit NRW (Germany) - the aim of the GESINE Network is to improve the health sector response to women who are victims of violence in Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in Germany. GESINE is also a focal point for the WAVE Network. Ulrike Janz participated as partner in the EU-Daphne Project Pro-Train and was project manager for the national German model project Medical Intervention Against Violence. U. Janz will lead WS 2 Capacity building as her organisation has extensive experience doing this support for the health sector at the national level in Germany; this includes providing: short paths leading to specialized frontline services for women affected by DV/IPV; addresses of health care services which are sensitive about violence from the trauma station to suitable rehabilitation centers up to body and psycho-therapy programmes; documentation aids for documentation of injuries suitable for using in a court of law; specialist advice; posters and information for patients as assistance for health education; information on health consequences of domestic and sexualized violence, legal and psycho-social help in cases of violence, possibilities and boundaries of medical and care treatment.
LAMORO (Italy) - LAMORO Development Agency is a no-profit Consortium created in 1995 by more than 60 public institutions of Southern Piedmont Region. The main aim of LAMORO is to work for the sustainable social and economic development of the territory. Over the years we have been involved in more than 50 European projects and just as many national projects. Social policy and fighting gender discrimination and violence are two of the main areas of intervention of LAMORO. Through the extensive network of public and private institutions Roberta Davisod can provide a widespread dissemination of project results.
PSYTEL (France) - Psytel is a cooperative of independent experts working in health information systems and injury prevention, including violence against children, adolescents and women. It has extensive experience as project leader and partner in DAPHNE grants. The Director Marc Nectoux and researcher Mathilde Sengoelge have experience collaborating on gender-based violence services with the health sector, specifically in the emergency department setting of hospitals. Psytel is the lead for WS3 on advocacy and sensitisation due to their knowledge and experience in EU policy advocacy and best practice exchanging between EU countries.
Expert Trainers:
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Gene Feder is a medical doctor and Professor of Primary Care at the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol. He chaired the WHO intimate partner violence guideline development group and is current chair of the NICE domestic violence programme development group. He led the first trial of a health care based intervention for domestic violence in Europe, titled IRIS. As a medical doctor he will provide his unique medical background to the health professionals present at the training as well as coaching/supervision for the violence prevention advocates/clinical champions before, during and after the capacity building in the health care settings.
- Medina Johnson from Bristol Next Link provides specialist domestic abuse services for women and children in Bristol including South Asian and Somali services and a GP referral service. It provides a range of support and housing services to women and children experiencing domestic abuse, including safe houses / refuges, children's services, resettlement and outreach services, a crisis response service, dedicated Black and Ethnic Minority Services and a confidential help line run in partnership with Womankind. Medina Johnson has been active in the IRIS project team (Identification and Referral to Improve Safety) to train a randomised selection of primary care clinicians in recognising domestic abuse and in supporting their female patients. She will providing training and coaching/supervision for the violence prevention advocates/clinical champions before, during and after the capacity building in the health care settings.
Advisory Board:
- Carol Metters from Next Link, UK is manager of the IRIS project and has extensive experience as a specialist domestic violence advocate-educator, including working with ethnic minorities. The IRIS project aimed to tackle the 'mismatch' between the large public health problem presented by domestic violence and the poor response from the NHS in general, and from primary care in particular. The team set up a randomised control trial to test an educational and support programme for GP practices, which aimed to help them identify and refer patients who are experiencing domestic violence. A key aspect was the partnership with voluntary agencies, which are provided most of the expertise for women experiencing domestic violence. Core areas of the programme are training and education, clinical enquiry, care pathways and an enhanced referral pathway to specialist domestic violence services. It is aimed at women who are experiencing DVA from a current partner, ex-partner or adult family members.
- Dr. Sabine Bohne from the University of Osnabruck, Germany has experience co-ordinating transnational projects. She is an educational scientist and has long-term experiences in co-ordinating EU projects. Her main topics are gendered violence, prevention, and intervention and human rights. She was actively involved in the UNFPA-WAVE Programmatic Package to Strengthen Health Sector Responses to GBV in Eastern Europe and Central Asian project. She was also assistant coordinator in the 6th framework project "Co-ordination action against human rights violations CAHRV" (2004-2007), co-ordinator of PRO TRAIN and is currently co-ordinator of STAMINA, which are two other Daphne projects. Her university currently has seven FP7 projects running and researchers have been regularly involved in EU-funded research projects, both as partners and coordinators.
- Pascale Franck from Welzijn en Gezondheid in Antwerp, Belgium is the provincial coordinator with over twenty years of experience in training, networking, provides consultative advice for authorities, sensibilisation, coordination and process management of multidisciplinary team on domestic violence. She also coordinates a perpetrator program on partner violence and group counselling for children who are witnesses of violence. She leads an innovative project titled "CO3" which is a client central organization focused on an integrated, multidisciplinary approach of domestic violence in Antwerp. Police, justice, women's aid, health services, social care, youth aid and local authorities work together as one team in one location.
- Leo Pas is chair of the Working Group on Family Violence of EUROPREV (European Network for Prevention and Health Promotion in Family Medicine and General Practice). As such he is founding member and first Chair of the newly created World Organisation of Colleges and National Academies of General Practice Special Interest Group on Family Violence. As an independent researcher he is collaborator of the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium and is a training coordinator at the Inter University Centre for General Practitioner training. He is main author of the guidelines on intimate partner violence care in general practice and co author on the guideline on child abuse. He has developed with the Belgian Society of Emergency Medicine a consensus on primary care and emergency care for Intimate partner violence. He was the Belgian coordinator for the DAPHNE project 2010 on " health sector responses to domestic Violence in Europe: a comparison of promising intervention models in maternity and primary care setting" led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
AÖF (Austria) Project leader - The Association of Austrian Women's Shelters Network provides the network for all of the autonomous women's shelters in Austria and undertakes information sharing and lobbying for work on women's shelters in Austria. The Director Maria Roesslhumer participated in the WAVE/UNFPA project The Response to Gender Based Violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to develop and promote a programmatic package to strengthen the health system response to gender based violence in the Region. AÖF has established a 24/7 women's helpline.
BGRF (Bulgaria) - The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation is an NGO of public utility that promotes social equality and women's human rights in Bulgaria through research, education and advocacy programs. The team of the Foundation consists of lawyers, academics, experts in advocacy, education, monitoring violations of human rights, lobbying for legislative changes, preparing publications, networking. Genoveva Tishova has extensive experience in advocacy and lobbying.
BBU (Romania) - The Babes-Bolyai University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Cluj School of Public Health has experience in FP7 and EAHC projects on health related topics as well as joint actions that focused on safety and health. BBU has closely worked with emergency departments, establishing good connections for on-going research, by developing and implementing a new project on workplace violence and safety funded by US National Institute of Health, Fogarty International Center, granted by the University of Iowa, College of Public Health. Dianna Rus is partner in capacity building projects that target the development of young researchers and professionals in the field of injury and violence prevention within the International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (ICTIRT). BBU will lead WS 1 Environmental Scan and Situational Analysis as D. Rus has performed such analyses for other international projects and can share her expertise with the team.
GESINE Network/Kompetenzzentrum Frauen und Gesundheit NRW (Germany) - the aim of the GESINE Network is to improve the health sector response to women who are victims of violence in Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in Germany. GESINE is also a focal point for the WAVE Network. Ulrike Janz participated as partner in the EU-Daphne Project Pro-Train and was project manager for the national German model project Medical Intervention Against Violence. U. Janz will lead WS 2 Capacity building as her organisation has extensive experience doing this support for the health sector at the national level in Germany; this includes providing: short paths leading to specialized frontline services for women affected by DV/IPV; addresses of health care services which are sensitive about violence from the trauma station to suitable rehabilitation centers up to body and psycho-therapy programmes; documentation aids for documentation of injuries suitable for using in a court of law; specialist advice; posters and information for patients as assistance for health education; information on health consequences of domestic and sexualized violence, legal and psycho-social help in cases of violence, possibilities and boundaries of medical and care treatment.
LAMORO (Italy) - LAMORO Development Agency is a no-profit Consortium created in 1995 by more than 60 public institutions of Southern Piedmont Region. The main aim of LAMORO is to work for the sustainable social and economic development of the territory. Over the years we have been involved in more than 50 European projects and just as many national projects. Social policy and fighting gender discrimination and violence are two of the main areas of intervention of LAMORO. Through the extensive network of public and private institutions Roberta Davisod can provide a widespread dissemination of project results.
PSYTEL (France) - Psytel is a cooperative of independent experts working in health information systems and injury prevention, including violence against children, adolescents and women. It has extensive experience as project leader and partner in DAPHNE grants. The Director Marc Nectoux and researcher Mathilde Sengoelge have experience collaborating on gender-based violence services with the health sector, specifically in the emergency department setting of hospitals. Psytel is the lead for WS3 on advocacy and sensitisation due to their knowledge and experience in EU policy advocacy and best practice exchanging between EU countries.
Expert Trainers:
-
Gene Feder is a medical doctor and Professor of Primary Care at the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol. He chaired the WHO intimate partner violence guideline development group and is current chair of the NICE domestic violence programme development group. He led the first trial of a health care based intervention for domestic violence in Europe, titled IRIS. As a medical doctor he will provide his unique medical background to the health professionals present at the training as well as coaching/supervision for the violence prevention advocates/clinical champions before, during and after the capacity building in the health care settings.
- Medina Johnson from Bristol Next Link provides specialist domestic abuse services for women and children in Bristol including South Asian and Somali services and a GP referral service. It provides a range of support and housing services to women and children experiencing domestic abuse, including safe houses / refuges, children's services, resettlement and outreach services, a crisis response service, dedicated Black and Ethnic Minority Services and a confidential help line run in partnership with Womankind. Medina Johnson has been active in the IRIS project team (Identification and Referral to Improve Safety) to train a randomised selection of primary care clinicians in recognising domestic abuse and in supporting their female patients. She will providing training and coaching/supervision for the violence prevention advocates/clinical champions before, during and after the capacity building in the health care settings.
Advisory Board:
- Carol Metters from Next Link, UK is manager of the IRIS project and has extensive experience as a specialist domestic violence advocate-educator, including working with ethnic minorities. The IRIS project aimed to tackle the 'mismatch' between the large public health problem presented by domestic violence and the poor response from the NHS in general, and from primary care in particular. The team set up a randomised control trial to test an educational and support programme for GP practices, which aimed to help them identify and refer patients who are experiencing domestic violence. A key aspect was the partnership with voluntary agencies, which are provided most of the expertise for women experiencing domestic violence. Core areas of the programme are training and education, clinical enquiry, care pathways and an enhanced referral pathway to specialist domestic violence services. It is aimed at women who are experiencing DVA from a current partner, ex-partner or adult family members.
- Dr. Sabine Bohne from the University of Osnabruck, Germany has experience co-ordinating transnational projects. She is an educational scientist and has long-term experiences in co-ordinating EU projects. Her main topics are gendered violence, prevention, and intervention and human rights. She was actively involved in the UNFPA-WAVE Programmatic Package to Strengthen Health Sector Responses to GBV in Eastern Europe and Central Asian project. She was also assistant coordinator in the 6th framework project "Co-ordination action against human rights violations CAHRV" (2004-2007), co-ordinator of PRO TRAIN and is currently co-ordinator of STAMINA, which are two other Daphne projects. Her university currently has seven FP7 projects running and researchers have been regularly involved in EU-funded research projects, both as partners and coordinators.
- Pascale Franck from Welzijn en Gezondheid in Antwerp, Belgium is the provincial coordinator with over twenty years of experience in training, networking, provides consultative advice for authorities, sensibilisation, coordination and process management of multidisciplinary team on domestic violence. She also coordinates a perpetrator program on partner violence and group counselling for children who are witnesses of violence. She leads an innovative project titled "CO3" which is a client central organization focused on an integrated, multidisciplinary approach of domestic violence in Antwerp. Police, justice, women's aid, health services, social care, youth aid and local authorities work together as one team in one location.
- Leo Pas is chair of the Working Group on Family Violence of EUROPREV (European Network for Prevention and Health Promotion in Family Medicine and General Practice). As such he is founding member and first Chair of the newly created World Organisation of Colleges and National Academies of General Practice Special Interest Group on Family Violence. As an independent researcher he is collaborator of the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium and is a training coordinator at the Inter University Centre for General Practitioner training. He is main author of the guidelines on intimate partner violence care in general practice and co author on the guideline on child abuse. He has developed with the Belgian Society of Emergency Medicine a consensus on primary care and emergency care for Intimate partner violence. He was the Belgian coordinator for the DAPHNE project 2010 on " health sector responses to domestic Violence in Europe: a comparison of promising intervention models in maternity and primary care setting" led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
