| CONTACT INFORMATION |
| Name of Office (In
National Language) |
Kinder & Jugend Anwaltschaft
für Tirol |
| Name of Office (In
English) |
Ombudsoffice for Children and
Youth for Tyrol |
| Postal Address |
Kinder & Jugend Anwaltschaft
Sillgasse 8
A-6020 Innsbruck
Austria |
| Visiting Address |
see above |
| Telephone |
+43 512
508 - 3792
|
| Fax |
+43 512 5083 795 |
| Email address |
jugendanwalt@tirol.com |
| WWW |
www.kija.at/tirol
|
| Title of Ombudsman |
Kinder & Jugend Anwaltin
(Leiterin) |
| Name of Ombudsman |
Mag. Elisabeth Harasser |
| Name of contact
person for ENOC |
Mag. Elisabeth Harasser |
| OFFICE SIZE AND STRUCTURE |
| Number of staff members |
3
|
| List of staff
members and functions |
Mag. Elisabeth
Harasser
Myriam Antinori
Angelika Außenlechner-Soier
|
Ombudsman for Children
and Youth
Social worker
Secretary
|
| Summary of annual
Budget |
no information
|
| Principal sources
of funding |
None |
| HISTORY OF THE OFFICE |
| Date the office was established |
June 1st
1995 |
| Initiator of the
Ombudsman office |
| The Jugendwohlfahrtsgestz
1994 "opened the door" and the Legislature of the State of Tyrol passed the Jugenwohlfahrtsordnung
1994 with the legal foundation of the office. |
| Steps Involved in
establishing office |
|
| Major changes in
structure, focus and activities |
| A staff of 2 persons
was reached in June 1995. Now we are up to 4 |
| Legislation
establishing the office |
| See §6 of the Tyrolean Youth
Welfare Act - Ombudsperson. |
| Terms of reference
or Mission Statement |
|
| AIMS AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES |
| Action with Children |
 |
Direct
consultations with individual children
|
|
Telephone
hotline
|
|
Internet
or other computer technology
|
|
Schools
visits, youth group visits, public information events
|
|
| Activities Office
undertakes |
|
Influencing
policy development at national level
|
|
Influencing
policy development at state/provincial level
|
|
Influencing
policy development at local/community level
|
|
Monitoring
the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child
|
|
Individual
casework
|
|
Education/awareness
raising on children’s rights
|
|
| Areas of greatest
experience |
|
The
school system
|
|
Social
Services
|
|
| Principle themes of
the current year |
| Non -Discrimination |
| Child participation |
| Protection from harmful information |
| Protection from all forms of violence |
| Sexual exploitation |
| Children in institutions |
| Education |
| Juvenile justice |
|
| EVALUATIONS/STUDIES |
| Evaluation of the
effectiveness/impact of the office |
| Annual Report –
in German |
| Other publications
or studies available |
| KIDS & TEENS
(quarterly) |
