Target groups
Along with the general public and professionals working in the field of domestic violence prevention, the main target groups are:
- Health professionals working in the field of family medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology, psychiatry, home care nursing, urgent (trauma) units, hospital units and counselling services that encounter victims of domestic violence during clinical practice: Health care in the above mentioned fields is provided by approximately 5.300 professionals (of those 1.450 doctors of medicine and 820 professionals in home care nursing). The educational training about recognising and treating victims of domestic violence for health care professionals has so far not been regulated or systematically carried out. For this reason, the educational trainings for at least 1600 (up to 1900) health workers from all regions of Slovenia will be designed. Through various dissemination activities and on-line, training-information materials will be available to a wider group of health workers
- Victims of domestic violence seeking health care, with an emphasis on vulnerable groups (migrants, Roma, unemployed, older people, rural population): In the framework of research, an analysis of their experiences, expectations and needs within health care will be carried out. The results will be taken into account in preparing trainings of health workers and in developing brochures with information about identification and consequences of domestic violence and forms of help. The brochures will be available in different health care institutions across the country