specialized training for professionals

Trainings are conducted in continuous mode. In 2010, a total of 5 519 first contact workers have been trained, including social workers, policemen, curators, teachers, health care, gmina Agency for Prevention of Alcohol Related Problems, orphanage workers, adoption facilities, NGOs’ , psychologists, representatives of the clergy, municipalities and counties coordinating issues related to the prevention of domestic violence, provincial coordinators of prevention programs, therapists from addiction centers. Training primarily focused on building local systems of preventing domestic violence based on cooperation of interdisciplinary teams, as well as the following issues: the implementation of corrective programs - educational programs for perpetrators of domestic violence, mediation, assistance to victims, working with the family having multiple problems, working with the abused children, working with victims of domestic violence, including the elderly and disabled, the diagnosis of domestic violence, etc.Trainings were mostly run as workshops and lectures. Length of trainings were varied. In most voivodships trainings took a few days.