DEEP ACTS - Developing Emotional Education Pathways and Art Centered Therapy Services against gender violence

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The objective of the project is to offer to professionals and organizations operating in services to victims of gender violence specific innovative methods and work tools that provide for the use of Art Therapy and Emotional Education. It is intended to systematize in specific guidelines the good practices of Fermata d’Autobus (I) and Rumbos (ES) in these two areas, after enriching them with a survey on the state of the art and contributions from outside the partnership. We will start from a research activity useful to integrate knowledge and practices already set up by the partners and then to test the final guidelines that represent the main project output in Italy and Spain in special internal workshops for partners and pilot courses for victims. The two lines mentioned above will be accompanied by a third one, complementary to traditional dissemination activities, to raise awareness in various forms among professionals, organizations, administrations, stakeholders and the general public through complementary activities such as workshops for organizations and external professionals, a Festival on the Outsider Art, a Docufilm, a theatrical piece taken on tour in Italy, Portugal and Spain and Show conferences. Outcomes and impacts. Victims of violence • Improved engagement with services • Significant cessation or reduction of violence • Improvement of physical security • Improvement of emotional well-being (reduction of anxiety and depression) • Improper use of reduced substances (if applicable) • Increased self-efficacy • Improvement of family relationships • Greater use of family and community resources Professionals / Service Operators • Better knowledge and greater awareness on how to intervene with tools and methods of Art therapy and Emotional Education • Improvement of the decision-making process • Increased security in the treatment of victims of violence • Improvement of relations with service users • Best professional networks