Violence, whether physical or psychological, has one effect: it often leaves deep traces and has a profound effect on those affected. Health, self-confidence and overall well-being are often permanently damaged. People who need help or care are especially in need of protection – they cannot protect themselves from violence on their own. As a provider of various care and support services in Düsseldorf, we therefore have a special responsibility to deal with this issue actively and to make our employees widely aware.
As part of the first special day of the city of Düsseldorf on the prevention of violence in care and integration support, Thomas Salmen, deputy chairman of the board of Caritas, together with other providers and institutions, signed the “Dusseldorf Convention for the prevention of violence in care and integration support” developed by the violence prevention working group of the municipal conference on aging and care. Preventing violence is a task for society as a whole that requires everyone’s commitment. By signing, the actors involved undertake to go beyond the current legal requirements for protection against violence, to deal with the issue ethically and moral and that they raise awareness of it in their own institutions. This will help to create social conditions for non-violent interaction and to protect people who need help and care in the best possible way.
Photo courtesy: © State Capital Düsseldorf/Uwe Schaffmeister
2024-04-30 05:30:43
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