Every person has a right to live free from violence and fear. Red Cross has a responsibility to ensure the safety of the people we work with and support.
This practice guide is designed to support Red Cross people to identify and respond to family violence concerns they may encounter when working with individuals, families and communities.

Developed by the Australian Red Cros

These guidelines developed by the Australian Red Cross outline the support available to Australian Red Cross people (employees, volunteers, and members) and contractors or sub-contractors, work experience students, trainees and apprentices who may be experiencing domestic or family violence.

This Safety Planning Guide has been developed by the Australian Red Cross. What is a safety plan? A personalised, practical plan that can help a person to recognise and respond to known safety threats. It provides simple and clear guidance on how a person can act to keep themselves and others safe should the threat arise, including what to do, who to contact and where to go. The danger or threat may be something that impacts a person’s physical, emotional, or mental wellbeing. Safety plans are intended to mitigate specific dangers and provide short term, practical options for the person to increase their safety.

The Tonga Red Cross Ofa Tui Amanaki Centre supports children and young adults with a range of disabilities (physical, intellectual, sensory) by providing a specially designed school environment, daily living skills training, transport and access support, home outreach, recreation/inclusion activities, and for older learners also vocational training. The Ofa Tui Amanaki Centre remains one of the key specialized services for children with disabilities in Tonga.

The Dominican Red Cross has piloted the IFRC's Child School Trust Index. The Child School Trust Index measures children’s trust in school protection and early warning systems in disaster-prone and conflict-affected contexts. By using trust data, the Child School Trust Index enhances the participation and perspectives of children of diverse ages, genders, and backgrounds, particularly those who are marginalized. The Child School Trust Index builds-on, supports and reinforces the Community Trust Index, an evidence-based tool developed by the IFRC to measure and foster trust in humanitarian action.

The Russian Red Cross delivers Family Centres for children through 25 regional branches. The Family Centres support children affected by displacement, stress, and disrupted living conditions and offers structured, group-based psychosocial and psychoeducational sessions for children.

The Safe Steps Kids programme is an initiative by the Prudence Foundation developed in partnership with the International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) and the Cartoon Network. The programme aims to educate children about life-threatening situations, including online bullying, and provide them with practical, easy-to-understand tips. It uses multiple platforms such as cartoon videos, infographics and informative website to reach millions of children across Asia.

Sport is a really powerful way of addressing youth isolation and exclusion and preventing violence. The IFRC has teamed up with the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy of Qatar 2022 – Generation Amazing on a unique and innovative project that unites young people through one of the most popular sports worldwide: football. This is a case study from Argentina.

Sport is a really powerful way of addressing youth isolation and exclusion and preventing violence. The IFRC has teamed up with the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy of Qatar 2022 – Generation Amazing on a unique and innovative project that unites young people through one of the most popular sports worldwide: football. This is a case study from Iraq.

Sport is a really powerful way of addressing youth isolation and exclusion and preventing violence. The IFRC has teamed up with the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy of Qatar 2022 – Generation Amazing on a unique and innovative project that unites young people through one of the most popular sports worldwide: football. This is a case study from Myanmar.