Families Support Networks

• Givea general outline of violent radicalisation to families in order to identify signs of radicalization in the family unit
• Prevent attitudes of radicalization and violence in vulnerable adolescents and young people
• Provide reception, support and social and psychological care to minors, young adolescents and their families
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1) Centre for the defence against the islamist sectarian abuse(Centre de protection contre les dérivessectairesliées à l’Islam - C.P.D.S.I.): created inApril 2014by the C.I.P.Dand the French Home Office, theC.P.D.S.Ihas constituteda multidisciplinaryworking teamand collaborates with expert teams fromtheMIVILUDESandspecialists from several fields such as psychiatrists, crisis management experts, association networks, professionals from the anti-terrorism and territorial vigilance department, professionals form public and private education services, administration and judicial authorities.

The Centre’s position is focused on a psychosocial approach which consists in questioning the recruitment mechanisms and the background conditions in which this recruitment has been able to propel young people into radicalization.

Its research method is based on:

• The identification of the brainwashing and recruitment technics that have brought about the breach and the backgrounds that can facilitate these techniques,
• The improvement of the systems of detectionof these backgroundsand the way they have been handled by the different interlocutors of young people.
• The assessment of the relevance of the interpretation of radical thinking by these interlocutors, both on professional practices and functioning of the institutions level.
• The enhancement of warning and prevention indicators in order to determine the radical sectarian aberration that exploits Islam to push young people to rupture and, eventually, to violence,
• The improvement of prevention based on communication medium adapted to young people, close relatives and professionals.
• The provision of social mediation, remobilisation and re-socialization assistance of radicalised family members.

Most recently, the Centre has carried out the following activities:

–Design of the first study report on the new radical ideological recruitment speech

« La métamorphoseopéréechez le jeune par les nouveauxdiscoursterroristes » ;

– Realisation of counternarration videosabout thedeconstruction of mental manipulation mechanisms ofradical Islam;

– Reception, assistance and social work with more than, 200 families who have some of the family unit displaced or deceased in conflict areas (e.g. Irak or Syria) all other the French territory;

– Training onwarning indicators andtheideological recruitment process addressed to the professionals from the public administration departmentsin the frame of the National Plan against Radicalisation and the green nº of the Home Officeplatform.

2)The Parents’ Consultation,Support and Assistance Network(Réseauxd’écoute, d’appui et d’accompagnement des parents – REAAP):created by the French government through the National Families Allowance Fund (CaisseNationale des Allocations Familiales – CNAF), it has been given the objective to reach 3 upon 10 families by 2017.

The REAAP main objective is to assist parents in practicing their parental role on the basis of their know-how and resources.

The mobilization of the REAAP around the prevention of radicalization can cover, for example, the following actions:

• exchanges and advice on the use of social networks, relations with schools, etc.
• discussion groups and peer prevention (g.: families whose children have become radicalized and / or have left in a conflict zone and wish to share their experiences with other parents in order to prevent radicalization situations).
• meeting spaces, fathers' cafes,
• - - family mediation tools to restore the family ties that recruiters tackle as a priority ...

• (CPDSI - Centre de protection contre les dérivessectairesliées à l’islam): Protection Centre combating Islamist sectarian abuse) cpdsi.fr
• (REAAP – Réseaud’écoute, d´appui et d´accompagnement des parents) Family support Support network from the governmental Social Welfare Centre for Family support (CAF- Caissed’AllocationsFamiliales)http://www.caf.fr/ma-caf/caf-de-la-charente-maritime/partenaires/vous-developpez-des-actions-dans-le-champ-de-la-parentalite/le-reseau-d-ecoute-d-appui-et-d-accompagnement-des-parents-reaap
• Guide interministériel de prévention de la radicalisation, Mars 2016, Comité interministériel de prévention de la délinquance.