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4. Activities: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006

Some of the Network of Trust activities include:

In 2001:

• June: First round table discussion in serial "It isTime to talk" (06.06.2001, 3 pages)
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• June: Second round table discussion in serial "It is Time to talk" (6.06.2001, 5 pages)
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• September: Third round table discussion in serial "It is Time to talk" (11.09.2001, 3 pages)

In 2002:

• June - July: Organizing 6-days in-training for all participating NGOs and governmental institutions to strengthen our own capacity and exchange long-term experiences of all.
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• July - September: Carrying out workshops in Roma settlements (12) and Centers for children without primary care-givers (2) in order to raise general awareness on the issue of violence among potentially vulnerable categories of general public.

• Whole period: Establishing a database and ensuring that all participants contribute with specific information to this data base as well as have access to database in order to facilitate key-information gathering and exchange; Publishing data in November 2003.

• August: Printing of a newsletter (information booklet where survivors can find adequate assistance) and distributing it to 10 000 addresses in Serbia.

• August: Distribution of 1000 copies of picture book (as a mini prevention tool against child sexual assault) to potentially vulnerable groups of children that Network members get in touch in their daily activities. This is 1 st picture book of this kind in Serbia and Montenegro (for children age 4-12).
  
• October: Facilitating 2 trainings for SWCs aimed at 1. education on coordinated adequate assistance for survivors and how (as professional) to use services of police to guard personal safety and 2. writing project proposals and learning fundraising and reporting skills.
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• December 2002 - April 2003: Organizing door-to-door level of campaign including all relevant policymakers. A joint advocacy plan of action has been developed and 6 visits aiming to present this plan of action were organized (Ministry of the Social Welfare, Ministry of the Local Governance, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Health, Committee for Refugees; Ministry of Education).

In 2003:

• November 2002 - February 2003: Four-days educational program on the issue of domestic violence and sexual abuse of children and women for 114 police officers from the territory of Serbia.

• February: Further development of the Network decentralization: Two-days educational program in Subotica (Vojvodina) and Krusevac intended to stimulate development of local network gathered around Social Work Center as partner organization-Network member. Different professions were included: health care, education, police, legal services...; Including SOS Novi Pazar (Sandzak).

• March: Five member-organizations of the Network of Trust were included in Task Force Against Abuse and Neglect of Children and Youth at the Ministry of Health.

• April: Publication of the booklet “Self-defense Manual for Girls” for elementary school students.

• March - April -May: Panels called “Network of Trust – Openly on Violence Against Children and Women” organized in the Dormitory Area of the University, Secondary school students’ dormitory and center for children without parental care – adolescent population; Lectures at the Teacher-Training Faculty and Kindergarten Teacher's Advanced School; Five lectures for medical students and two for medical institutions; Three-days educational program for the Group 484 (program for staff working with children with learning difficulties); Organizing a round-table discussion with all relevant subjects from the field: social work centers, legal services (prosecutors and judges), policy makers (ministries’ representatives) and funding organizations.
  
• April: Publication of the booklet “Self-defense Manual for Girls” for elementary school students.

• May: Regional conference “Multidisciplinary Approach to Protection of Children and Women from Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse”; Organizations from Slovenia, Croatia, Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro had participated at the Conference.

• November: Street action around World Prevention Day Against Child Abuse and Neglect (November 19).

In 2004:

• Regular monthly case management meetings of Network members.

• May – October, we organized partnership educational project: Incest Trauma Center – Belgrade and Wildwasser, Berlin; Multi-level advanced training for 25 professionals (extended Network of Trust)– working as a network in the context of violence; Held in our premises.

• November: formalizing co-operation among Network members – formalization within extended Network of Trust.

In 2005 and 2006:

• Regular monthly case management meetings of Network members.
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• May - June 2006. – Police officers and Incest Trauma Center-Belgrade cooperate in a multidisciplinary team for 6-days training of employees in Women's Penitentiary and its Hospital in Požarevac and employees in Students' Polyclinic.
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• June 2006. – Incest Trauma Center – Belgrade conducts 6-days training of Students' Polylicnic's personnel, using TOT (training of trainers) model.

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