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New Training of Trainers curricula on violence against women and domestic violence for legal professionals

On 28-29 January 2020, the Council of Europe together with the Academy of Justice organised a two-day workshop to kick off the design of a Training of Trainers (ToT) curricula to enhance the skills and knowledge of legal professionals on how to prevent violence against women and domestic violence, protect the victims of violence and hold the perpetrators of violence accountable in line with local and international standards, notably the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.

The participants in the workshop included judges and prosecutors, the National Coordinator against Domestic Violence, the Victims Protection and Support Office and the training team of the Academy of Justice.

The aim of this action is to train a pool of trainers, primarily judges and prosecutors, involved in the area of preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence who can further teach their peers in the Academy of Justice. ...

This initiative is developed by the Council of Europe project Reinforcing the Fight Against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence – Phase II in co-operation with the Academy of Justice.

Peja/ Pec 28-29 January 2020
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Fifty practitioners to enhance skills in provision of occupational therapy

Following the adoption of the Guidelines for Occupational Therapy (OT), as well as the Training of Trainers (ToT) on OT that took place in January 2024, three 2-day cascade training sessions were organised in the course of February and March 2024.  Fifty professionals, mainly from the Prison Health Department, along with representatives from the Correctional Services, Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, and the Special Institute for Persons with Mental and Physical Disabilities, were trained on this important form of therapy.

To complement the theoretical aspects and provide the trainees with practical knowledge, some of the sessions were conducted in the Dubrava Prison, in a section which houses prisoners with both mental and somatic problems. This on-site training allowed the participants to observe and understand the application of OT principles in a real-life setting, thus enhancing their learning experience by connecting theory and practice.

These cascade training sessions allowed the participants to further improve their skills in applying the OT Guidelines and tools in prisons and other closed institutions, a concept which was thus far not utilised in a structured manner. Furthermore, training healthcare and correctional professionals together helps them further strengthen the inter-institutional cooperation in the treatment and rehabilitation of some of the most vulnerable members of the society.

Each of these sessions were facilitated by two trainers who had participated in the ToT in January and were supervised and mentored by a Council of Europe consultant who has been involved in the process since the very beginning, thus further strengthening institutional capacity to provide training.

The activity was conducted under the auspices of the Council of Europe project “Improvement of the treatment of persons deprived of liberty”.

 

 

*All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions, or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United National Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.

Istog/ Istok 26 March 2024
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