What is harassment? How to fight? What is the pHARe plan? The gendarmes from the Family Protection House (MPF) of Aude provide their answers.
Harassment at school, on social networks, around us, has become a recurring phenomenon in our society. This insidious influence shakes the foundations of self-confidence and can have a lasting impact on children and families, with sometimes irremediable consequences. A very informative conference, Thursday April 2 in the Claude Nougaro room, provided the public with solutions to free themselves from this.
This conference was co-organized by Familles Rurales, the Tribe d’Athéna and the parents’ association with the participation of chief warrant officer Ludivine Leport, warrant officer Jean Catala from the family protection unit of the National Gendarmerie, and a future magistrate hearing from the Carcassonne Court. Only around thirty people attended, parents, grandparents, teachers, elected officials. The subject, however, concerns us all.
Signs that can alert
The chief warrant officer defined the different forms of harassment in society. The most continuously perfidious are undoubtedly found on social networks, but also from kindergarten to school, middle school and high school to work and even within families. She described the penalties incurred by harassers, and detailed the competent organizations and school units set up to relay information and fight together against this toxic spiral. Warrant Officer Jean Catala deciphered the signs that can alert parents of students: changes in the child’s behavior, declining school results, anxiety about going to school, insomnia and unease revealing a serious problem that is essential to elucidate as quickly as possible. According to him, the establishment of a relationship of trust between parents and children is an essential factor in helping to apprehend the culprits, who leave no respite for the victim. He presented the PHARe program, a harassment prevention plan instituted in all schools, colleges and high schools to educate, train, intervene, involve parents and students, delegates, school partners and organizations dedicated. An emergency number, 3018, operated by the e-Enfance association is available to fight harassment together.
