Program Objectives
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Strong family support systems
- Strategy
- Psychosocial interventions and training
- Specific Projects
- Family Life Enrichment Workshops
- Family Therapy
- Other Possible Projects/Partners
- Organizing community-based family networks
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Support services to address “push” factors of abuse
- Strategies
- Integrated community development intervention (livelihood, parent education, community organizing)
- Reproductive health education—on Maternal and Child Health, Violence Against Children and Women, and Family Planning
- Specific Projects
- Family Life Enrichment Workshops
- Family Therapy
- Other Possible Projects/Partners
- Using Healthy Start Project as a point of entry for community organizing
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Positive child rearing and nurturing
- Strategy
- Adoption of Healthy Start and Growing Great Kids curricula
- Other Possible Projects/Partners
- Integrated family strengthening
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Child-friendly legal and structural environments
- Strategies
- Network-building
- Advocacy and mobilizations
- Capacity-building
- Public education campaigns and policy advocacy
- Media mobilization
Healthy learning environment for best practices
- Strategies
- Development of relevant programs or curriculum
- Identification of innovative practices for adoption or replication
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Needs Assessment Elements
All prevention interventions must examine the following elements prior to the development or conceptualization of projects. Constant monitoring of these elements must also be ensured in the implementation process.
- Profile of families and their existing culture and practices
- Profile of poor communities
- Mechanisms in community to prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation
- Conditions in community that put children and women at risk of abuse
- Competence level, attitudes and knowledge of direct service providers
- Availability of resources and services necessary to run effective programs
- Support and openness of Local Government Units and concerned stakeholders on Child
Abuse prevention agenda
- Availability of common and reliable data
- Existence of strategies of and services by other Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) or Local Government Units (LGUs)
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