The Funding Network - Our project
We want to use the support to continue our You Are Not Alone resilience program. In the framework of this program, we will make our knowledge and professional experience available to a wider audience in Pécs. Based on the professional knowledge gained during the facilitator training on support groups, we have developed our own approach for young girls of Roma origin living in deep poverty.
In 2019, our organization started holding trauma-aware, resilience groups for disadvantaged adolescent girls. In the spring of 2022, at the Élő Adás in Pécs, we collected support in order to use the experience gained in this way to help the teenagers living in the City Children's Home for half year, and to create an accredited training for teachers and support professionals based on our methodology compiled during our work. This process is currently underway, and it appears that there is a great demand for the program at the Children's Home.
We would like to continue the work started in the Children's Home from the spring of 2023, as well as provide supervision support. We would like to use the support for the payment of the facilitators, the supervision process that supports them, and the implementation of trainings throughout this year. By continuing the work, the facilitators can gain valuable experience, which they can use to involve and train additional helpers. Expanding the circle of helpers means that we can help more young girls in the city and even outside the city, in the surrounding villages.
Today in Hungary, only a few organizations deal with violence prevention support for disadvantaged adolescent girls. However, this is a gap-filling, very important area. That is why we want to make our activities known as widely as possible, show how important this work is so that as many Roma girls living in poverty can receive help. Our goal is that, through the training, social professionals and teachers can also acquire the approach that they can use to effectively help disadvantaged adolescent girls who come into contact with them. They do not receive any knowledge about this during their university education.
Our programme is an extension of a well-established work in the field of outreach. Our resilience-building programme aims to provide equal opportunities for girls from deprived, disadvantaged backgrounds, mostly of Gypsy/Roma origin, who experience some form of domestic violence at home from an early age. Young girls in our target group are very unlikely to have access to the tools and opportunities to effectively deal with the trauma they have experienced and to prevent themselves from becoming victims of violence. We specifically help children for whom no one else is taking responsibility, even though it is their fundamental right to grow up in safety. We are not only fighting for their rights in our group work, but we also believe it is important that the professionals working with them are sensitive and understanding of the problem and learn techniques to effectively help the traumatised children they come into contact with. Close follow-up is an integral part of our programme. The strength of our program is the establishment of a small community through which we can implement close process following.
