VIPROM
Victim Protection in Medicine – Exploiting practical knowledge of medical staff to enhance the multi-professional contact with victims of domestic violence
Summary
Responding to the widespread need for sustainable medical sector training, the VIPROM project will develop stakeholder- group-specific DV curricula for medical doctors, nurses, midwives and medical students. In 6 case locations across 5 European member states, VIPROM will conduct train-the-trainer programs to enable the developed curricula to be implemented in pilot trainings among peers in each of the stakeholder groups with approx. 500 participants. Crucially, the development of the curricula will be informed by both stakeholder-specific needs assessments and 2 case studies of good practice cases for sustainable organizational integration of DV training in the medical sector. This will enable the project to provide medical practitioners with stakeholder-specific training materials and methods, as well as practical guidelines for the sustainable integration of the developed curricula in medical institutions across all European member states beyond the runtime of the project. To facilitate the rollout beyond project partner countries, VIPROM will enable the participation in the curricula for all European member states and beyond, through a 10-part Webinar series with 400 participants as well as the dissemination of the Curricula and implementation roadmap to over 150 specialized victim’s protection organizations in over 46 countries.
Project Website
https://viprom-cerv.eu/
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Runtime
02/2023 - 02/2026
Partners
• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany)
• Institut für Konfliktforschung (Austria)
• Gesine Intervention (Germany)
• Uppsala University (Sweden)
• VICESSE (Austria)
• Hellenic Forensic Psychiatric Association (Greece)
• Paris Lodron University Salzburg (Austria)
• University of Parma Hospital (Italy)
• Europe Research Services GmbH (Germany)
Contacts
Activities
In order to achieve the goals listed in the summary, VIPROM has 6 work packages (WPs) housing its various activities.
WP1 will coordinate the activities in the project, ensuring that the partners are aware of all the activities and are in a position to take part in discussions on progress, problems, and planning. The aim is to steer the project activities in a smart way using the creative potential and diverse expertise provided by the consortium, while making sure that all deliverables and milestones are fulfilled in a timely manner. WP1 also includes project management because steering is connected with financial and administrative management.
WP2 will conduct a needs assessment for sustainable organization change and has the following scopes:
● Compiling a repository of existing training materials/programmes on DV
● Conducting stakeholder tailored needs assessments for DV training
● Identifying obstacles to organisational change hindering the uptake and sustainability of previous efforts
● Identifying key factors facilitating the successful implementation of good practices
● Synthesising of barriers and enablers to achieving sustainable organisational change
WP3 aims at the development of DV curricula and training material:
● Design of training content tailored to the various medical sector stakeholder groups using input from WP2 (repository of existing training on domestic violence)
● Integrating and translating training content into a curricular structure tailored to medical sector frontline responders (students, nurses, midwives, medical doctors, trainers)
● Development of national specific training modules for 5 countries (Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Sweden)
● Designing of the train-the-trainer courses, concepts and methods to strengthen sustainable implementation of national curricula
WP4 is about the piloting of the developed curricula, with the main objectives:
● Recruitment of Train the Trainers and practitioners from 4 stakeholder groups (medical doctors, nurses, medical students, midwives) for piloting of curricula in each partner country
● Train 24 peer trainers across all four stakeholder groups (medical doctors, nurses, medical students, midwives) and all case locations
● Conduct peer to peer curricula pilot with members of each stakeholder group (medical doctors, nursing staff, medical students, midwives)
WP5 consists of an evaluation of the developed curricula with the following aims and objectives:
● Develop an evaluation strategy for the contents and implementation of the Curricula
● Evaluate the quality and scope of the contents of the various curricula developed in WP3
● Evaluate the quality and impact of the implementation of the various curricula in all 4 stakeholder groups across all 5 partner countries
WP6 “Dissemination and “Sustainability” will ensure that the VIPROM results (training materials) are disseminated to the professionals and other stakeholder, including the following steps:
● Designing of Dissemination/Sustainability Plan & communication tools
● Connecting to the professional, academic, policy, media stakeholder groups
● Publication of roadmap towards a sustainable uptake of the DV Curricula & Accreditation
Funding
VIPROM has received funding by European Union’s DAPHNE programme CERV-2022-DAPHNE: Prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children under grant agreement No. 101095828
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