GUFOVA - Growing Up Free of Violence and Abuse - working to build resilience and strengthen children who have lived with domestic violence. Deliverable 4.3. FUNDING MODEL - Technical notes

The EU project Growing Up Free Of Violence and Abuse (GUFOVA) focused on sharing knowledge and preparing training materials for the practical work with children who have witnessed direct or indirect violence in their homes. GUFOVA has partners in 5 countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In addition to networking with experts in order to create manuals for children workers from specialized support services for victims of domestic violence and professional and practitioners from a range of agencies which come into contact with children and their families, such as those working in shelters, municipalities, children’s organisations and the like. In a second part of the GUFOVA project it was aimed to provide practitioners and their institutions with a costing tool that might help them to convince potential public but also private funders that money spent on affected children is not only an ethically correct, but also an economically highly efficient choice.