Category: WHOSEFVA

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Project WHOSEFVA’s online course has been published

Project WHOSEFVA (Working with Healthcare Organizations to Support Elderly Female Victims of Abuse), a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission under the Daphne programme has recently come to an end. The WHSOEFVA project was implemented in six partner countries: Austria, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia and the UK.

The main objective of WHOSEFVA was to increase the capacity of domestic violence organizations to better represent the interests and voices of older women who are victims of abuse. To ensure greater accessibility and sustainability of the project trainings on a European-level, a WHOSEFVA online training programme was developed.

The training programme, targeted at health and social care professionals, is in English and video-based but additional subtitles are available in all six project languages. To register and take part, please visit the project website.

Please share the course also with your colleagues and friends.

Five signs of abuse MOOC
Five signs of abuse MOOC
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Press release: 3rd Partner meeting in Vienna – Success of WHOSEFVA Project

WHOSEFVA, a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission under the Daphne programme, aims to address the barriers and gaps which exist in healthcare settings to effectively support elderly women victims of abuse. The WHSOEFVA project will be implemented in six partner countries: Austria, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia and the UK. The coordination of the project is conducted by Women’s Support and Information Centre in Estonia, with guidance and input from Finnish expert on elder abuse and VoiVa Coop’s chairwoman Sirkka Perttu.

One year after the launch and Kick Off Meeting of the WHOSEFVA Project in Greece, project partners gathered in Vienna, Austria from 1 -3 March 2018 to share and discuss key results and outputs of the project to date. Since the start of WHOSEFVA, a total of 14 Mutual Learning Workshops have taken place in the partner countries. In the process, partners have been able to inform, sensitize and strengthen 280 doctors, social workers, carers from social and health care and experts from victim protection institutions against violence against older women. In addition, WHOSEFVA has had the opportunity to speak with 67 women and men in the context of focus groups about their experiences of violence in old age. The results of both activities are very helpful in articulating concrete policy demands to end violence against older women – both at national and European level. Read more: the full press release.