Program Officer-counselling Pvwc Strategy

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**OPENING FOR: PROGRAM OFFICER- COUNSELING
**NAME OF THE PROGRAM: PREVENTION OF VOILENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN -**

**STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION**

**JOB LOCATION: DHARAVI
**ABOUT THE PROGRAM**
SNEHA’s Program on Prevention of Violence against Women and Children aims to develop high‐impact
strategies for primary prevention, ensure survivors’ access to protection and justice, empower women to claim
their rights, mobilize communities around ‘zero tolerance for violence’, and respond to the needs and rights
of excluded and neglected groups. The Program prioritizes enhanced co-ordination of the state response to
crimes against women through convergence approach that works with government and public systems to
reinforce their role in assuring basic social, civil and economic security. Primary preventive interventions are
carried out through community outreach programs and campaigns. Secondary interventions for survivors of
violence are provided through a comprehensive service-oriented system.

Strengthening community stewardship and management, building sustainability, and deepening interventions
on primary and secondary prevention of gender-based violence in urban settlements of Mumbai: communities
respond and learn not to tolerate gender-based violence
The program will work on building community participation, mobilization and ownership to show non
- tolerance to gender-based violence and take action against it. Its operating model will shift from a service
- centered approach to community-based solutions on gender-based violence. The program will work towards
integrating and broadening primary and secondary interventions in the community build sustainability and
consolidate the evidence on gender-based violence programs. The program’s primary prevention work in the
last six years has led to a large base of women community volunteers (sanginis). These volunteers identify
cases of gender-based violence, provide the first psychological response, intervene in her situation and carry
out crisis interventions with the police, medical aid and

immediate family intervention before referring the survivor to SNEHA’s counselling center. In the next phase,
the sanginis will be trained extensively and will be offered field implementation support to provide
psychosocial interventions for survivors of violence, and to make support available and accessible to survivors
of violence in the community.

**THE ROLE**
The project will entail community-based counselling and response to survivors of gender-based violence. The
counsellors will train and give direction to SNEHA volunteers in two respects: resources (psychosocial
assistance with medical consultation, entitlements, and communication with the police) and reasoning
(psychological first aid, counselling and initial mental health management).
sanginis in carrying out psychosocial interventions for survivors of violence. They will be involved in giving
guidance in deciding the line of intervention for cases, connecting sanginis to law protectors and other relevant
public systems, conduct trainings and carry out case sharing meetings.

SNEHA believes in investing in the professional and personal development of its staff. The program will train the
principles of counselling, women’s rights, gender-based violence, and laws relating to women and children to be
implemented through SNEHA volunteers.

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

**The Program Officer (Counselling
- Training and mentoring) will be responsible for following**
**responsibility**:
**Work package I**

**Field-based Guidance and support **

Provide guidance to sanginis in strategizing crisis interventions that include medical aid, enlisting of
police complaint, arranging shelter to survivors of violence and immediately intervening with family
members.

Plan and strategies long-term interventions with sanginis for cases that include counselling with partners/
family member, home visits, community intervention and any other intervention required.

Provide direction to sanginis in strategizing networking with other relevant stakeholders such as the
police, child welfare committee, family court for case intervention and follow-ups.

**Work Package II**
**Field-based Training and Documentation **

Conduct regular training with sanginis on secondary intervention modules

Carry out regular assessment of training administered to sanginis

Assist sanginis in documenting case intervention

Carry out regular documentation of trainings provided

Carry out regular documentation of case interventions

**Work Package III**

**Field-based Case Sharing Meetings **

Conduct regular case-sharing meetings with sanginis in cluster areas to help them understand and
analyse case interventions.

Conduct regular case-review meetings with trained sanginis to support and guide them on
psychosocial intervention processes to be carried out.

Provide strategies on communication and negotiation to sanginis to carry out colle