Prevent Child Sexual Abuse in Ecuador

In the past three months, Fundación Azulado has been planning several new projects. You will soon hear form us!

Finally we will be able to return to schools in three weeks and implement Mi Escudo in five schools in Quito. We are very excited to see teachers and children again !

We are working with most of our patients in sight and for some weeks we had to see clients online. During these months we have provided more than 720 hours of psychotherapy to children and families in need.

This week we will train 40 professional that work with migrants in My Shield – Family Version Program, so they can apply this methodology with families that need it.

We have done various interviews and online talks  for the community on different topics on child rearing and wellbeing .

Azulado and Universidad San Francisco de Quito will launch the third edition of a 3 month online training of Mi Escudo for psychologists, teachers, social workers and pediatricians .

We are still providing a monthly online Circle of Security program, with parents from many countries.

Since this summer, we are working with most of our patients in sight. Children are enthusiastic of returning to our offices and being able to play and interact with their therapists. During these months we have provided more than 800 hours of psychotherapy to children and families in need.

We have implemented workshops in 5 flower farms of the Colour Republic Group, reaching 2000 workers and their families. We also trained the social workers and human resources personal on My Shield – Family Version Program, so they can apply this methodology with families that need it.

We have done various seminars  online for the community on child abuse prevention and different topics on wellbeing .

Azulado and Universidad San Francisco de Quito launched the second edition their 3 month online training of Mi Escudo for psychologists, teachers, social workers and pediatricians .

More families in Latin America are interested in participating in our Circle of Security program, we are opening one group every month.

Dear Friends,

 This year we have reinvented our work and had new projects continuing in our line and our cause of child abuse prevention .

 The projects are the following :

 We did two programs of Circle of Security in classrooms with teaches of public pre schools of Quito Ecuador . This program was done with the Minsitery of Education . This program was done online with the teachers .

 Also with the Ministery of Education we are doing now the production of radio slots for national radio of Ecuador of the program of abuse prevention Mi Escudo of Fundacion Azulado. These slots contain tools for auto protection of sexual violence, that will allow safeguard the integrity of million of children at national level .

 We continue now to offer online therapy to low income children and families in emotional issues . we have 10 psychologists attending families . We are over 250 cases attended since the beginning of the year .

 We have now our online program of mi Escudo in Ecuador, this project is done together with the University of San Francisco of Quito , it is a 12 week program online directed to teachers , psychologists, social workers ,pediatricians and all professionals that work in contexts of child protection .so we can attend needs of children and be able to work with them in this program.

Any more concerns , please contact us

Thank you very much for your help

Regards ,

Maria Jose Sevilla

Co founder Fundacion Azulado

We started working with 6 schools in Pichincha area in Ecuador this year with our program mi Escudo that works prevention of sexual abuse . We went for two months and then stopped going because of shut down of schools because of Covid 19 and quarantine . The same problem happened with our live therapies in our offices with psychologists working with children and families .

 So this year we have reinvented our work and had new projects continuing in our line and our cause of child abuse prevention.

We started working in mental health programs with the police of Ecuador . And support groups to all the police .

The project was the following :

HEALTHY COMMUNITY  STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Domestic violence and child sexual abuse are serious problems in Ecuador and the rest of the world. The mandatory quarantine has caused a surge in cases of violence, as family members who live with an abuser are not able to leave their home nor seek assistance.

 The National Police respond to calls about domestic violence and are subjected to difficult and painful situations. During the months of March and April, the police received 7,954 emergency calls related to domestic violence.

 Police involvement in cases of domestic violence not only exposes them to the corona virus, it raises their on-the-job stress and anxiety levels. This can cause exhaustion, fatigue and emotional stress, which can affect their job performance in stopping violence.

 Fundacion Azulado, in working towards the prevention of violence, has developed a project together with the National Police to provide emotional support to officers who come to the aid of the most vulnerable in Ecuador. This includes individual and group psychological accompaniment and assistance for the police officers who find themselves in the first line of defense.

 Also , we have worked with the Ministery of Education in programs of helping teachers of low income preschools in the area of Pichincha with a program called Circle of Security , working themes of emotional bonding teachers and students , this was done online and we are continuing working with more schools these coming months .

We continue now to offer online therapy to low income children and families in emotional issues . We have 10 psychologists attending families. We are over 220 cases attended since the beginning of the month.

We are working to offer our online program of mi Escudo now in Ecuador , so we can attend children, teachers and families these months with our program in elementary low income schools ..

 Any more concerns , please contact us

 Thank you very much for your help

 Regards ,

Maria Jose Sevilla

Co founder Fundacion Azulado