The activities of colonies, camps and volunteer camps provide an environment where coexistence and the type of activity carried out foster close and close relationships between young people and the professionals who develop them. This type of interactions can be very positive, since it allows the creation of relationships of trust that help detect and prevent risk situations, violence and abuse.
In this context, the Aragonese Youth Institute (IAJ) has recently presented three new action protocols in the field of leisure and free time.
The objective of these protocols is to provide tools to professionals involved in carrying out activities linked to camps and colonies so that they know how to act in cases of suicidal ideation, harassment and sexual abuse.
This guide aims to offer professionals in the leisure and free time sector simple tools and guidelines for action that can facilitate the implementation of interpersonal, cognitive and emotional management resources, among others, supporting decision-making regarding situations. . suicide risk.
Child sexual abuse and mistreatment is a major public health problem that, in some of its typologies, affects girls and adolescents more profoundly, which is why the gender perspective must be incorporated into the work to be carried out, whether at a preventive level as well as direct intervention.
The general objective pursued by this document is to provide intervention circuits that facilitate communication and notification of violence that young people participating in the activities organized by the IAJ may be suffering or have suffered.
