For kids and youth

Brave Phone

The Brave Phone – phone for abused and neglected children is also situated in our Center. The Brave phone is an NGO which was registered in 1997, and the main aim of this NGO is the protection of children from abuse and neglect.

40 volunteers of the Brave phone (students of helping professions) work on the hotline where children and adults can make an anonymous phone call and report if they have been abused or neglected or if they know of someone who has been. They can advise that the caller gets direct help from the experts working in the Center.

The volunteers also work on raising public awereness in the field of child abuse. They are involved in educating the experts who work with children and in scientific research in this field.

Visit Brave Phone website.

Written by: Assoc. Prof., PH.D Gordana Buljan Flander

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The Brave Phone

The Brave phone (“Hrabri telefon” in croatian) is an NGO which was registered in 1997, and the main aim of this NGO is protection of the children from abuse and neglect. Visit Brave Phone website.

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A parent places a child in the middle when the child is asked to be a carrier of adult messages, asked to keep secrets, or asked to serve as a spy in the other household. When a parent trashes the other parent to the child, half of that child is being trashed also. Such issues take their toll on a child's self-esteem and sense of well-being. Any movement along the continuum from conflict to cooperation, no matter how small, is a move to benefit the child.

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