The project is about preventing child sexual abuse which can happen anywhere, anytime all over the world. It is not just a national issue but also a humanitarian responsibility to unite against child abuse to be able to produce effective results. SmartSteps project will contribute to solution to the problem of child sexual abuse. In terms of vocational education program, counselors who are working at Research and Guidance Centers, Public Education Centers and schools go through a Training of Trainers (ToT) program in Turkey(Antalya) that will provide them a comprehensive knowledge and effective methodologies within European standards on various aspects of prevention for child sexual abuse. ToT will also improve the pedagogical proficiency of the counselors in communicating with children and diagnose the victimized child or the recognize risks threatening the children. In the project, there will also be a local training program in Rhodos,Antalya and Sofia which will be held by the counselors who attend training program in Turkey. The counselors who attend the training programs both locally and internationally are also expected to reach school teachers and parents through separately designed informative sessions. With the transmission of information, parents and teachers are expected to develop awareness about child sexual abuse, taking necessary measures in their environment, being able to recognize the signs and probable risks and starting the legal procedure. The partnership includes three Regional Local authorities on education from Antalya(TURKEY), Rhodos(GREECE), and Sofia(BULGARIA). partners in the project have a key role in implementation and production of the intellectual output. The roles of each partner are defined in detail and a clear task sharing has been accomplished among the partners. In order to reach the stated aims, a project management and implementation team is established at every partner institution. These teams have important responsibilities such as conducting preparation duties, evaluating the quality of activities during the transnational project meetings and so on. For the intellectual output, multiplier events are also planned. So as to manage the implementation of the project flawlessly, a contract among partners is planned to be signed before starting the project activities. Four transnational project meetings are planned. One of them is at the very beginning of the project and this meeting is important for reviewing the form, signing the contract and making all responsibilities clear. Apart from that, the project meeting is planned at the end of the project for the aim of analyzing and reporting the project results and outcomes, and more importantly, working on the final documentation. This project has local, national and international impacts and a dissemination plan is presented for dissemination of the impacts. There are also potential long-term benefits thanks to the intellectual output. After the project, its impacts do not end as the course content for counselors will be available for relevant institutions. Development of these contents will fill an important gap, as there is not a specific curricula designed for preventing child sexual abuse. Development of these contents will have enormous impact on the quality of education/health and well-being in our respective partners. The target groups (Counselors) and beneficiaries (teachers, families, children) will benefit in terms of high-level basic and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective. Also cultural understanding and transnational cooperation will be brought about. We anticipate that by means of this project will establish very good working relationships between the institutions engaged in the activities and that this partnership will continue beyond the period of the project implementation as well as all the invented vocational training tool and practice book.
"Smart Steps'' is a project to prevent child sexual abuse and what can be done for abused children in partner institutions which are local authorities in Antalya (TR), Rezekne(LV)and Valcea(RO) cities.A school education module war created for counselors, Public Education Centers and schools. The module was developed in cooperation with the project partners from various fields of expertise.Throughout training of trainers activities and modules,counselors became responsible for diagnosis, legal procedure, communication with sexually abused students. Training of trainers improved the pedagogical proficiency of the counselors in communicating with children and diagnose the victimized child or the recognize risks threatening the children. In the project, there was a local training program in Valcea,Antalya and Rezekne cities which was held by the counselors who attended training program in Turkey. The counselors who attended the training programs both locally and internationally were reached school teachers and parents through separately designed informative sessions. With the transmission of information, parents and teacher developed awareness about child sexual abuse, taking necessary measures in their environment, being able to recognize the signs and probable risks and starting the legal procedure. We made the first transnational project meeting in Rhodos Directorate of Edıcation-Greece which was the old partner. This 1.TPM was at the very beginning of the project.We reviewed the form and made all responsibilities clear.We planned to make 2.TPM meeting in Rezekne with 4 participants from Turkey and 4 participants from Romani in order to analyze and report the project results and outcomes BUT because of covid 19 pandemy, we couldn't make 2.TPM in Rezekne but we held virtual meeting succesfully. PARTICIPANTS:There were very experienced councelor teachers from project institutions who gave the training for participants.We completed the mobility activities with total 31 participants. 1-LATVIA 10 participants 2-ROMANIA 10 participants 3-TURKEY 11 participants There were local participants during local training of trainers activities.Partner institutions reached 500 local councelor teachers in Antalya, Valcea and Rezekne cities. 1.LTT activity in Antalya :''The training of the counselors'' - A training course for counselors was arranged in Antalya, Turkey. During this course all partners presented the best practice of their own, counselors exchanged ideas and they upgraded their skills in terms of preventing Child Sexual Abuse. The participants were the onoes who were active invdeveloping ''child sexual abuse practicebook for teachers’’ and ''module''. 2.LTT activity in Valcea(RO):In order to develop ''Smart steps practicebook'' which is held in C3 meeting in Latvia, we needed to develop modules to add in practicebook during C2 meeting in Romania.The modules wil be available for the general public in Valcea,Rezekne and Antalya and contented all the support training documents and tutorials for the students and teachers involved. The module is supported with the training of trainers C2 activity.Participants gained the necssary knowledge,skills aand competences during the training.The knowledge developed by the partners was crossed in order to define the main priorities / needs and to create homogeneity among the participants. 3.LTT activity in Rezekne(LV):Smart steps practice book has been designed to guide and help better understand the criminal processes for victims of sexual abuse or exploitation, what might be involved and how to get it right for victims and their families when faced with the potential of becoming involved in criminal justice proceedings. Participant staff, with frontline experience of supporting victims through such processes designed a high quality book,sharing common poor experiences of criminal justice processesin the past, based on real life examples in partner countries. Child abuse project had local, national and international impacts in partner cities and partner countries.There are also potential long-term benefits thanks to the modules and guidebook of the project. counselors teachers will use modules and guidebook in preventing child sexual abuse.Development of modules and guidebook filled an important gap, as there was not a specific curricula designed for preventing child sexual abuse.Development of these outputs impacted the quality of education/health and well-being in our respective partners. The target groups (Counselors) and beneficiaries (teachers, families, children) benefited in terms of high-level basic and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective. Each of the participating countries the representatives of different institutions had the opportunity to participate in training and share their experience, discuss current issues, also define their individual goals in the project context.