Bulgarian Fund for Women offers opportunity to register for individual free online counseling sessions for people, victims of domestic violence. The initiative is part of the project “National Information Campaign for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Support Services“, funded by the Ministry of Justice. The project is going to be implemented from June to the end of October 2020.
You can still sign up for individual online consultation, completely free. You can receive psychological or legal support at a time convenient for you. In order to become part of the consultation program you only need to fill in this short online REGISTRATION FORM.
The program includes three components: Psycho-social individual counselling, Legal individual counseling, Specialized counseling for adults who have problem with the use of domestic violence and dealing with anger issues. The consultations are conducted entirely online and in complete confidentiality.
The program aims to reach out to people who are indecisive whether to consult face-to-face with specialist or live in small or remote towns or villages where there is no institutional support and/ or do not have access to experts.
Domestic violence is a widespread problem in Bulgaria, which mainly affects women and children. It has many different forms and manifestations, but the common thing is that it is associated with relationships, based on power and control. Domestic violence survivors often struggle to protect themselves, since there are issues like lack of professional help and support, social apathy and silence about the extent of the problem. In order to address the need for professional support and protection (both legal and psychological), the Bulgarian Fund for Women implements this project with the support of the Ministry of Justice.
In addition to the individual consultations, the program also provides series of webinars entitled “Love Errors”, in which experts with years of experience talk about the different forms of violence, how it can be identified, how to protect ourselves, how to end a relationship based on violence and control and other topics. During the online events, participants have the opportunity to ask questions to the specialists and receive support and further information.
All webinars were recorded and you can see them on the website of the Bulgarian Fund for Women and on the page loveerrors.bg
You can also take part in the last one, the fourth online seminar, on 1st October, Thursday from 4:30 p.m. The topic of the session is “Children and domestic violence”. The experts with whom we will meet you are Katya Krustanova- clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience in the field of domestic violence and the work with women and children survivors of domestic violence and the lawyer Natasha Dobreva, international law and human rights specialist.
You can register for the webinar HERE.
Project “National Informational Campaign for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Support Services“
The project is implemented under a grant agreement with registration No. 93-00-162 / 08.06.2020, signed with the Ministry of Justice.
