Early Child Protection Work with Families at Risk (ERICA)

The goal of the project is to prevent and combat violence towards children, defined as here as maltreatment, by building the expertise of professionals concerning minors living in families with child maltreatment risk, also in multicultural contexts.

Detailed aims are

1. for professionals to undertake a comprehensive training program to enhance their use of risk assessment tools and their engagement in multiprofessional working practices,
2. to integrate a strategy which involves the civil society in the prevention of child maltreatment
3. to develop, pilot and evaluate an EU training program
4. to develop and evaluate a mobile application on risk assessment (professionals, parents)