Dare2see: Training programs for teaching and support professionals in primary schools and kindergartens in child abuse cases (2020 – 2022)

The Dare2see project was created as part of an effort to raise awareness of the phenomena of violence against children and, above all, to better detect and prevent them within the educational system. Violence against children (mainly in the family environment) is a pressing social problem that has been addressed by many studies, books, training courses, campaigns and workshops. There is a lot of information about this issue and also about the possibilities for action, but the results of the training courses to date demonstrate a kind of helplessness or ineffectiveness in terms of actual change in active recognition and action in cases of detection of violence against children.

Dare2see, whose name already carries the call “Dare to see!”, was therefore conceived as a project to create a training program for professional workers in VIZ, which asks precisely the questions of this inefficiency and inability as its starting point: Why is violence against children difficult to see, recognize, take appropriate action against and, above all, achieve change? What limits and prevents us as professional workers in VIZ? What can we do about it and, above all, how?

The general goal of the Dare2See training is therefore to mobilize diverse forces in an individual educational environment, which, in addition to information about violence against children and awareness of its occurrence, would primarily bring a common reflection on the enigma of this issue and a deep inner commitment to actively persist in action despite numerous potential obstacles.