Ciivise wants to involve young people in its work to improve prevention against incest

The Independent Commission on Incest unveiled its new roadmap on Friday to better combat this sexual violence. Younger people will be involved, particularly through meetings in schools.

Giving children and adolescents a voice: the new management of Ciivise, the Independent Commission on Incest, unveiled its new roadmap on Friday October 4. While under the presidency of Judge Edouard Durand, more than 30,000 testimonies from adult victims in their childhood had been collected, this time the emphasis will be placed on the youngest, who will be directly involved.

There is no question of holding large public meetings as was the case until now, nor is there any question of hearing from child victims. That’s not the goal in any case. The idea is rather to involve younger people to develop tools for prevention and care for victims of sexual violence, particularly on subjects that are difficult to access for adults, explains Thierry Baubet, psychiatrist and member of the governing body of Ciivise. : “A question that worries us a lot is the question of revelations of violence between peers: a little girl, a boy or a teenager will say to their friend: ‘My father does that to me’. What happens when this happens? he asks. Does this happen frequently?”

“And do young people feel adequately equipped to deal with it?”

Thierry Baubet, psychiatrist and member of Ciivise

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The issue of child crime on the internet will also be addressed, an increasingly worrying phenomenon which affects children from the age of 6. These young people will be associated in three different formats. First, and this is undoubtedly the most innovative, in a mirror group, a team made up of around fifteen adolescents already accustomed to associative work and speaking out. They will work in the long term with the members of the Ciivise.

The commission will also travel to schools and towns to meet primary and secondary students in participatory workshops throughout France, starting in January. The last device is a little more specific: a study in partnership with the Sorbonne. “It’s research work, describes Solène Podevin-Favre, one of the co-directors of Ciiviseby interviewing children who may have been victims, not about their traumatic experience, but rather about the entire journey after the revelation and the support they may have received from society. Whether at the medical, judicial, educational level, etc.”

Projects which are already financed, specifies Ciivise, and this is not a detail, since this new team has an annual budget half as large as its predecessors.