O1. Improving the skills of social workers to approach domestic violence through the transfer of good European practices. - The analysis of the existing training offers, as well as on the EU policy, ensuring openness to the needs of social workers, as well as ensuring accessible and quality training opportunities, to adapt the VET to labor market. O2. Improving skills of social workers to involve and maintain former victims of domestic violence in prevention programs, to facilitate women which have gone through treatment after a personal experience as victims of domestic violence, and integrated them in a form of participation. O3. Raising the awareness of local community about the effects, which stereotypes and prejudices of gender inequality correlate with the increased rate of cases of domestic violence.
The project was elaborated based on the cooperation between NGOs, services providers and local authorities which identified the need for improvement of the services addressed to prevent the domestic violence, considering the frequency of cases of violence in the family and the physical and psychological consequences especially serious of this phenomenon. The professionals involved in elaboration pf the project were questioned about their training needs, in regard to the methods of approach and its evolution, its use, its purposes, the characteristics of the phenomenon and its explanatory factors, the policies pursued for mediating and preventing the phenomenon and their effectiveness. The projects addressed the improvement of skills and knowledge, but at the same time how competence is linked with the needs of beneficiaries and the legislative framework. It sets out a series of recommendations-key for policy makers, practitioners and researchers. Training professionals with the knowledge and the practical skills needed to be practiced at a high level was a complex effort, this being illustrated by the overview of the analysis and the support for professionals in social care services.