An improvement in training. The 50,000 facilitators who each year p the Bafa (certificate of aptitude for the functions of facilitator) will now be trained in prevention of gender-based and violence, announced this Thursday the Secretary of State for Youth. This will take the form of an additional specific module, so that the facilitators are able to prevent violence and listen to children who talk about violence experienced in their homes.
“Collecting the words of child victims cannot be improvised. You have to know what to say, or not to say, so that they can express themselves without closing themselves off, then react appropriately, know the procedures to follow to report the facts,” explains the Secretary of State. to the Youth Sarah El Haïry in an interview with West France.
Signature of a charter on and gender-based violence
Moreover, those in charge of collective reception of minors (holiday or leisure centres, outdoor centres, etc.) will sign a charter of 12 commitments to prevent and gender-based violence (SGBV) this Thursday, at the premises of the French Union of Vacation Centers (UFCV).
They will thus undertake to “register the prevention and the fight against and gender-based violence in the educational project “, to “recruit staff trained in these issues” or to train them, as well as to appoint VSS “referents” in each structure, specifies the Secretary of State in a press kit. They will also have to “raise awareness among minors” about gender-based and violence and “gender equality issues” and “report” SGBV “to the competent authorities”.
Finally, the government will unveil, again this Thursday, a campaign to raise awareness of and gender-based violence which will be broadcast from July 10 to August 6 on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. It will be aimed at young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to encourage them to speak to adult supervisors in holiday camps if they are victims of domestic violence. “Talking about it can change everything. The outside setting of a colony can allow us to talk about what we undergo in our daily environment”, indicated Sarah El Haïry.
Another campaign on social networks will seek to reure parents of children aged 2 to 17 “to tell them that their children are safe, protected from and gender-based violence during their holidays in a summer camp or camp”, continued the Secretary of State. Each year more than 800,000 “systematic and recurring” integrity checks of workers in centers welcoming minors are carried out, she ured.