Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Building a Future for the Most Excluded

Summary

The Safe Families Safe Children (SFSC) Coalition is an international group of renowned organisations working globally to research, develop and implement effective methodologies to enable the most excluded children to gain sustainable access to their rights and have their developmental needs met appropriately, including those emotional and relational needs which most affect their future resilience and life outcomes. The SFSC members implement a range of programmes for street-involved and highly excluded children, including educational and therapeutic activities, community centres, residential facilities, street outreach, home visits and community liaison. This booklet is designed to give an overview of a strategy for working with excluded children and families affected by violence in the home.

It is not intended to be comprehensive in its reach, and neither is it meant to be an operational manual. It is aimed to promote thinking and discussion around the critical issues of how to achieve inclusion for highly excluded children and solve the intergenerational transmission of family violence.