Communities Care: Strengthening Community Based Care

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Communities Care : Transforming Lives and Preventing Violence Programme (CC Programme)  Part 3  shares information on how to create an enabling environment for survivors of sexual violence to receive good quality compassionate, survivor-centred care and support to help them on their journey of recovery and healing. This is important because the availability of these services will not only encourage survivors to seek help, but also demonstrates that sexual violence is a serious concern, deserving resources and a multi-sectoral response. It is also important to show the community that something is being done about it

Section 1: Information provides guidance and tools strengthening quality survivor-centred services and supporting compassionate survivor-centred care and support.

Section 2: Capacity Building contains training materials for programme staff and stakeholders to build the capacity of service providers.

This includes:

1. Putting survivor-centred response into practice
   This training will equip community-based response actors with good practice principles, survivor-centred knowledge and skills for responding to sexual violence.
    
2. Community health worker (CHW) training
   Following this training, CHWs will be able to provide basic care to survivors of sexual violence.
    
3. Strengthening psychosocial response to sexual violence
   This training will equip social welfare and psychosocial care workers with survivor-centred knowledge and skills, including implementing a case management approach to responding to survivors and their families.
    
4. Strengthening response to sexual violence in Education
   Following this training, staff in schools will be able to recognize and respond to different types of sexual violence affecting students, understand the role of schools in preventing and responding to sexual violence, and identify action to strengthen the school’s response to sexual violence.
    
5. Strengthening response to sexual violence in Law Enforcement
   This training will enable law enforcement staff to understand their role in law enforcement in relation to sexual violence and the frameworks that guide their work in responding to sexual violence.