GROWING UP SAFELY is a 50-card set designed to empower children and young people who have witnessed domestic violence. It provides inspiration for conversations between educators and children, helping them process their experiences in a child-friendly way. Women's and children's shelters and counseling centers of FHK eV member organizations have tested the ideas, questions, and game elements contained in the set in their work with affected children. Their expertise is made visible and shared through the card set.
Please send your orders for a processing fee of 15€ plus postage to info(at)frauenhauskoordinierung.de .
On 16.01.2024 January XNUMX, the Federal Ministry of Justice presented a first draft for the reform of child law, which is anchored in the coalition agreement. Key Issues paper In particular, custody, access, and adoption rights are to be modernized, as German family law "no longer reflects the reality of family life in many areas."
While the key issues paper contains numerous welcome measures, which the Women’s Shelter Coordination Association (FHK) supports and which are press report As has already been discussed, there is still a need for improvement, particularly with regard to the ordering of contact guardianship and the risk of high pressure to consult and reach an agreement, in order to avert a threat to the safety of the parent affected by violence.
The worksheets for professionals and children provide methodological suggestions for practice and provide information on how those affected can be counseled, accompanied, and supported in a child-sensitive, trauma-informed, and resource-oriented manner.
The information sheets and exercises provide professionals in child protection and women's and children's shelters with suggestions on how they can professionally support children and young people in processing the violence they have witnessed. They offer, among other things, child-friendly information and practical exercises on:
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The worksheets can be downloaded here:
https://sicher-aufwachsen.org/arbeitsmaterialien/mit-kindern-ueber-haeusliche-gewalt-sprechen-beratung-von-kindern-jugendlichen-bei-miterlebter-innerfamiliaerer-gewalt-partnerschaftsgewalt
With the portal www.sicher-aufwachsen.org Frauenhauskoordinierung eV offers a new interdisciplinary platform that supports educational professionals from a wide range of fields in their work with children and young people in the context of domestic violence.
The professional portal provides a comprehensive collection of interdisciplinary and practical work materials, as well as innovative best-practice approaches, free of charge. Over 250 materials from experts in a wide range of disciplines provide a low-threshold entry point into specialized support and care for children experiencing violence.
Click here to go to the portal sicher-aufwachsen.org.
The FHK fold-out poster "Welcome to the Women's and Children's Shelter!" offers professionals at women's shelters inspiration and methods for educational practice in children's settings. Because more children and adolescents find shelter in Germany's women's shelters than adult women, their needs are the focus of the FHK project "Temporary Home."
To download:
Stories play a key role in shaping children's perceptions of themselves and the world. However, children's books rarely reflect the experiences of children who witness and are victims of intimate partner violence within their families. With the FHK Children's Book List, FHK provides book recommendations for violence-aware education for children and young people of various ages, particularly intended to support educational work in women's and children's shelters.
To download: Children's book list on intimate partner violence, domestic violence & sexual violence
The workbook “My Time in a Women’s Shelter” helps you engage in playful conversations with children in women’s shelters and is provided free of charge by FHK.
To download: Workbook “My Time in the Women’s Shelter”
More children than women live in Germany's women's shelters. For these children and young people, women's shelters fulfill an important function as temporary places of protection, safety, and empowerment. However, this has not yet been reflected in the funding for protection and counseling. This FHK expert information explores how women's shelters (and can) organize their work with children and young people despite the ongoing underfunding, and what would be necessary to provide equal and trauma-sensitive support to children in women's shelters.
To download: FHK Technical Information No. 2 / 2022: "Partially (also) for children"
The Women's Shelter Coordination (FHK) and IKEA Germany have launched the funding fund for children in women's shelters so that temporary, educational projects for children and young people in women's shelters can receive quick and easy financial support.
To download: Overview of funded projects (as of June 2023)
Im Article "Being able to laugh with mom again – How children find a new temporary home in a women's shelter" FHK speaker Juliane Kremberg explains on the IKEA Germany blog what the funding fund for children in women's shelters and the Temporary Home project are achieving.
Children are not just observers of intimate partner violence, but are also always (co-)affected. Over 75% of women who seek refuge in women's shelters are mothers and also bring their children to safety there. For the publication "Children in Focus. Intimate Partner Violence and Its Consequences" by the German Children's Aid organization, FHK spokesperson Juliane Kremberg explains what this means for the work of women's shelters, the resulting challenges, and the blind spots policymakers have when it comes to caring for affected children and young people.
Download: "Children in Focus. Domestic Violence and Its Consequences"
The following federal associations are members of the Women’s Shelter Coordination Association
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