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Welcoming 18 new members in year one

Welcoming 18 new members in year one

Each new member brings important experience and knowledge which enhances the Network’s ability to undertake this mission, and brings us closer to realising our vision.

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More is more – delivering promises, even in crisis

More is more – delivering promises, even in crisis

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and all its restrictions, the support desk at the Network’s Secretariat was busy delivering more: more networking, more surveys, more new connections, more opportunities to collaborate, more decisions, more everything. Exactly what we promised in Helsinki when we signed the Statutes for the Network in November 2019.

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PROMISE 2 is launched

PROMISE 2 is launched

The PROMISE 2 partnership is proud to announce the work to promote progress in establishing and operating Barnahus, or similar models, at national level in several European countries has begun. We met in Stockholm in January 2018 to plan the core tasks:

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Introducing the new PROMISE logo

Introducing the new PROMISE logo

The refreshed identity embodies the essential characteristics of the Barnahus model: friendly and strong, dynamic and inclusive. The M in PROMISE becomes a symbol for the project and the movement. It becomes a B to symbolise the Barnahus. The symbol transforms into a friendly character with kind eyes and smile. A sticker activity challenges your creativity to find other shapes and faces!

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Barnahus and PROMISE promoted at ISPCAN conference

Barnahus and PROMISE promoted at ISPCAN conference

Bragi Guðbrandsson had a keynote speech and several PROMISE partner representatives presented the different aspects of the Barnahus model. As a result, many countries showed interest and the city of the Hague, the Netherlands announced the planned launch of their first Barnahus by January 2019.

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Launched: The European Barnahus Movement

Launched: The European Barnahus Movement

The conference advocated for child-friendly, multi-disciplinary and interagency services supporting child victims of violence. Several high-level speakers gave their support to the European Barnahus Movement, including Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, and Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children. Bragi Guðbrandsson, lead expert, presented the Icelandic experience and how it has inspired the European Barnahus Movement. The expert panels discussed multi-disciplinary and interagency responses to violence against children in Europe and how the Barnahus Model embodies children’s rights. In this context, the European Barnahus Quality Standards document was launched.

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From pilot country to model country

From pilot country to model country

In 2015, thirteen countries joined the PROMISE vision to promote child-friendly, multi-disciplinary and interagency services supporting child victims and witnesses of violence. The efforts to consolidate support for Barnahus or comparable models in these countries has been brewing for some time – often years.

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Linköping inspires a European movement to establish Barnahus

Linköping inspires a European movement to establish Barnahus

At the meeting, HM Queen Silvia returned to Linköping, 11 years after inaugurating the first Barnahus in Sweden, to give her support to the European Barnahus movement. Her advocacy played a key role in the establishment of Barnahus in Sweden. The World Childhood Foundation, which The Queen founded, helped to establish Barnahus Linköping and continues to support the establishment of Barnahus around the world.

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When a trend becomes a movement – the Barnahus Movement

When a trend becomes a movement – the Barnahus Movement

We have seen substantial progress in Europe since the launch of the PROMISE Project during fall 2015. Lithuania opened a Barnahus in June and Hungary formally opened this week. Croatia, Finland, the Netherlands and Poland are working to expand their existing child-friendly services with inspiration from the Barnahus model. Cyprus, England, Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Malta are soon to launch new models and operations. Significant processes is being in many other countries in gathering support for establishing the Barnahus or comparable models.

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Putting the child’s story at the centre

Putting the child’s story at the centre

PROMISE aims at promoting child-friendly multi-disciplinary and interagency services supporting child victims of violence, providing them with access to justice, avoiding re-victimization and ensuring high professional standards for recovery.

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