European Study Seminar on child abuse in the digital world
9.30-17.30, Wednesday 8th May 2024
Zagreb, Croatia
The Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Programme is one of the most comprehensive and innovative prevention programmes for child abuse in the world. The original CAP programme began to be implemented in the United States in 1978. The International Center for Assault Prevention (ICAP), founded in 1985, has expanded the programme to other countries around the world. This central organisation does not exist anymore, but the programme continues to be implemented in Regional Training Centres.
COFACE member, Step by Step Parents Association, is such a Regional Training Centre in Croatia where they train facilitators to implement the CAP programme. The CAP programme equips children with effective prevention strategies to reduce their vulnerability and exposure to various forms of violence. Additionally, it ensures better support for parents, legal guardians, and educators. The programme has several variants that are intended for children of different ages and needs: preschool, kindergarten, teenagers, and children with disabilities.
The aim of this study seminar was to learn more about the CAP approach in Croatia, exchange ideas with practitioners from other countries working also to prevent child abuse, assess together how to upgrade programmes to prevent child abuse online, and finally to build partnerships between family organisations and Safer Internet Centres.
In the afternoon, COFACE hosted a working group on safer internet with its members and partners.
Working languages: English and Croatian
Speaker presentations
- Gorana Hitrec, Step by Step Parents Association (Croatia), Spotlight on the CAP Programme in Croatia
- Andreas Rentzis, KMOP (Greece), Presentation of Actions
- Patricia Cardona Roca, Brave Movement (Spain), Prevention of child sexual abuse online: perspectives from European countries
- Beatrijs Gelders, COFACE Families Europe, EU Developments Safer Internet
- Vineeca Kuo, INHOPE, Fighting CSAM
- Antoaneta Vassileva, Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre, Cooperation with Insafe and INHOPE network
- Tomislav Ramljak, Croatian Safer Internet Centre, Introduction to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- Amaia Echevarría, UNAF Spain, Safer Internet initiatives for families
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