2020 Subaward - Uruguay - Arte Terapia y Prevencion para el Abuso Sexual Infantil y la Violencia

Arte como Terapia y Prevencion del Abuso Sexual Infantil y la Violencia Intrafamiliar (Art as Therapy and Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Intrafamily Violence) 

Chapter:  Uruguay  

Location of the Grant:  Montevideo- Uruguay 

Duration:  3/1/2021 - 5/30/2021 

Description of the Grant:  The COVID-19 pandemic's prevention measures such as quarantine and social distancing have significantly impacted vulnerable populations, especially children, adolescents, and women, victims of domestic and sexual abuse and violence. The main goals of this program are to provide information on prevention against violence, mistreatment, and abuse of children and adolescents, and adult women and, secondly, to create spaces that are playful, recreational, and therapeutic in organizations that receive cases of violence. These spaces allow victims to channel and represent the impact of victimization and their self-improvement through various expressions of art. Additionally, the project will seek to raise awareness of the issue through social networks within vulnerable populations. The projects will add an innovative therapeutic tool to the scarce resources that the country has in the field of prevention, assistance, and specific treatment of child sexual abuse and domestic violence. The project may be extended to Educational Centers, neighborhood organizations, community centers, transferring elements of the techniques to other points of contact in each of the partner institutions for their replication. 

The project is divided into two sets of activities: 

1)  "Art as an instrument of prevention" will allow Uruguayan plastic artists and software developers to make a video audio art of 5 to 8 minutes in English and Spanish with information to be distributed among children and adolescents through the educational platforms and programs in Uruguay and Minnesota. 
2) "Art as Therapy" will focus on reaching victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence by presenting workshops to the Crime Victims Assistance Center and the non-profit named El Paso, which serves victims of trafficking and sexual abuse and to the Victims Unit of the Attorney General's Office and similar institutions in Minnesota. These classes will study illustration drawing and the various techniques, focusing on the participant's personal experience, facilitated in English and Spanish.

Key Audience:  The target population is people from Uruguay and Minnesota over 18 years of age, victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. 

Key Partners:  Judicial Branch and not-for-profit non-governmental organizations that receive and provide treatment to victims of domestic violence and child sexual abuse. Partners of the Americas Uruguay-Minnesota, committee of Vulnerable Populations and Committee of Art and Culture.  

Tags:  Arts, Youth, Education, Entrepreneurship, Community Empowerment