Journeys - Safe and Informed Journeys through Barnahus
The overall objective of the JOURNEYS project is to contribute to improved access to child-friendly justice, protection and recovery for child victims and their families. The project will seek to improve practice through the provision of a safe, informed and participatory pathway through Barnahus with a focus on advocacy for the individual child.
About the Journeys Project
Objectives
The long-term effect of the project is expected to be the full realization of the rights of children who are victims of crime, with special attention to rights related to information, participation, recovery and support.
Target groups
- Children (0-17 yrs), primarily those victims of crime
- Authorities, practitioners and civil society organisations involved at Barnahus
- Decision makers
- Politicians
- The wider public
Activities
Working method child liason
- App for children visiting barnahus
- Child log
- Engage children in child advisory board
- Increase awareness of children's rights as victims of crime and Barnahu's role at all levels
- Engage practitioners in transnational learning activities to achieve Barnahus quality throughout the EU
- European end conference
Coming up: Journeys end conference
The end conference "Ensuring children's right to information and participation at Barnahus" will be an hybrid event taking place in Linköping on November 20, 2024.
We are happy to announce that Professor Laura Lundy at Queen's University of Belfast will join and speak at the conference.
See full program here.
Journeys contact persons
Project partners
Save the Children (Sweden)
Tüsla Child and Family Agency
Bonigi
Marie Cederschiöld University
Terre des hommes (Hungary)
Council of the Baltic Sea States
Funding
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Justice Programme. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.