Eclips

With the end of the year 2022 approaching, the ECLIPS project also comes to an end. We wish to thank all childcare professionals and stakeholders who participated in the project or who helped disseminate the project results. The ECLIPS project was of great societal value and we thank everyone who has raised awareness and has contributed to the project activities in order to combat child abuse amongst children aged 0-3 years old.

Find our public deliverables on our ECLIPS website: www.eclipsproject.eu

Finally, UCLL wishes to especially thank their project partners who have given their best to realise the potential of this project. The project was a perfect example of transnational teamwork.

Reach our partners:
Centrs Dardedze
Pressley Ridge Magyarország Alapítvány
Unimore - Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
UCLL Research & Expertise
European Commission

This project has received funding from the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union under grant agreement No 101005642.

ECLIPS | Enhancing the Capacity to combat chiLd abuse through an Integral training and Protocol for childcare ProfessionalS ECLIPS Enhancing the Capacity to combat chiLd abuse through an Integral training and Protocol for childcare professionalS. Welcome to the ECLIPS project! Our fast changing environment offers us opportunities and concrete challenges. The ECLIPS project wants to exploit the modern techonologies to sti...

It is important to equip professionals with accessible background material on trauma-informd care. Below is a collection of useful links with that very purpose. The first one comes with a short explanatory video.
https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/what-is-trauma-informed-care/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWken5DsJcw&feature=emb_title
https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/infographics/6_principles_trauma_info.htm
https://www.nctsn.org/trauma-informed-care
https://www.acesaware.org/ace-fundamentals/principles-of-trauma-informed-care/
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/trauma-informed-care-what-it-is-and-why-its-important-2018101613562

This one is in pdf format:
https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/programs_campaigns/childrens_mental_health/atc-whitepaper-040616.pdf

www.samhsa.gov

When we talk to child care specialists, one of the most frequent questions is - what exactly should we do, what is the algorithm of action in case we detect signs of child abuse? We remind you that you can find practical information in our developed protocol:
👉 about signs of abuse in young children
👉 action algorithms
👉 trauma-informed care
👉 as well as suggestions on how to assess your own emotional state, which affects our ability to provide support to children.
Protocols are available in English, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian and Latvian. Check them out here: https://eclipsproject.eu/publication-list/

On the 6th of December, we have organised a final event aimed at the childcare sector. The event is free and can be attended online and in Leuven (Belgium).

Registration is obligatory: https://events.ucll.be/content/registration-eclips-conference-december-6th-2022

More information: https://eclipsproject.eu/794-2/

A social-emotional toolkit like this is very useful to stay calm and regulated when working with children:
https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-maslow-bloom-all-day-long?fbclid=IwAR2dAQuBy6gppWXNZnKrBpMjdbAqQV0RNnLI0Kre53scaN88GVBO2P6VT_8

How to Maslow Before Bloom, All Day Long Morning meetings are a good place to start, but what you really need is a toolkit of strategies to meet your students’ social and emotional needs all day long.

September is a special time. It is the time when many children take their first steps in the child care facilities at the age of 1, 2 and 3. The adaptation period is not easy for anyone - neither the child, nor the parents, nor the babysitters, but if we take our time and let the familiarization process happen little by little, we will manage to create an atmosphere full of trust - so that every child is noticed.

It is a great opportunity to create a safe, accepting and sensitive environment for the child from these first steps, as well as an opportunity to build relationships with the children's parents.

As you know childcare specialists are an extremely valuable resource for early detection of possible family problems, abuse or neglect, so let’s be extra vigilant during the adaptation. To recognize possible risks and signs of violence, we invite you to use the assessment tools we have developed https://eclipsproject.eu/publication-list/

Let's not wait until the problems grow together with the child - each of us can act preventively. And now you are even better equipped with the knowledge - to notice and act!

The last step of the ECLIPS "on-field" work was training 120 childcare professionals from all the project partner Countries (Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Latvia) with respect to screening and referring child abuse, as well as implementing a trauma-sensitive approach within their daily practice.

After a one-day training, all participants were provided with the ECLIPS "Screening and Referral" and "Trauma-Informed Care" protocols [find them here: https://eclipsproject.eu/publication-list/], and a Virtual Reality tool to further train their screening and trauma-sensitive skills. Then, we collected feedback via focus groups.

Here are some quotes from our trainees:

- “With the support of the tools you have given us (…) I would perhaps feel capable at this moment of facing the evaluation of a critical situation”

- “The Screening tool helps you have an objective view of the situation and allowed us to understand that in a reaction that may seem trivial and disproportionate, discomfort may be hiding”

- [about a crisis with a child] “I managed to go back to what we said and to face the situation […] I think theTrauma-Informed Care tool has been very useful, I didn't feel alone thanks to this tool”.

We take advantage of this post to publicly thank all the childcare professionals who took part in the ECLIPS training to acquire greater knowledge and competence on such a tough topic.



Credits for the illustrations: Emese Iványi

ECLIPS is a research project that finds it important to be inspired by existing good practices. We'd like to take the opportunity to share with you the International Early Learning Child Well-being Study.

This project is designed to help countries to improve children's early learning experiences, to better support their development and overall well-being.

Find out more about the study here: https://www.oecd.org/education/school/early-learning-and-child-well-being-study/

International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study - OECD The first five years of children's lives are crucial to their development. During this period, children learn at a faster rate than at any other time in their lives, developing basic cognitive and socio-emotional skills that are fundamental for their future achievements in school and later on as an....

📣📣📣 Although it's only mid-summer, we've already set a date when to invite you all together and tell about the results of the ECLIPS project!

We have planned a free international online conference on December 6, so we invite everyone who participated, who works with children in the first years of life, as well as makes decisions in the field of childcare, health care and family support, to reserve the date.

We will discuss the challenges, lessons learned and introduce you to the project deliveries that we’ve created:
• A screening and referral tool that allows childcare professionals to screen for signs of domestic violence more efficiently and refer more effectively.
• A protocol that provides skills to be able to provide trauma-sensitive care to young children exposed to domestic violence.
• A practical training with a virtual simulation (VR tool/game) for childcare professionals.

Delegates from all participating countries are going to take part: PRHU (Hungary), Unimore (Italy), Centrs Dardedze (Latvia) and our coordinating partner Resilient People expertise center of UCLL (Belgium).

It will be a powerful event after two years of work!

How to identify and tackle child abuse?

Earlier this week, Elisa Bisagno, one of our colleagues from UNIMORE (Italy), presented a poster on ECLIPS at the ISSBD conference in Greece!

Yesterday, we presented our ECLIPS materials at the ISPCAN - Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention conference in Tallinn. Thanks for having us! Honoured to present our ECLIPS materials to support professionals in screening, referring and offering trauma-sensitive care for children aged 0-3 years old.

Find our guides here in English: https://eclipsproject.eu/publication-list/ and available in Italian, Latvian, Hungarian and Dutch upon request.

A great European collaboration between UCLL Research & Expertise, Pressley Ridge Hungary, Centrs Dardedze and UNIMORE.