Commitment
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, the strengthening of families and to promote the rights of children with disabilities.
- To design and to develop experimental dissemination activities that advance prevention and that are potentially transferable good practice.
- To continuously disseminate the results obtained so far by the partnership following two activity lines.
Horizontal: enlarging the international network including other countries and develop local capacity to raise the issue within family organisation(s) (awareness raising).