Welcome to the Allies e-Guide! Here you can find good practices and other useful information about creating a safe preschool and school culture and preventing violence in children’s lives. This e-Guide is directed to preschool teachers, teachers and other professionals in daycare and school, as well as parents looking for ways to support children’s wellbeing and safety.

In Allies e-Guide you can find tools for holistic violence prevention in preschool and school. The holistic, whole community approach to prevention work includes:  

• Structural level: Supportive practices and challenges in creating an equal, safe community
• Cooperation with parents: Good practices and basis of effective cooperation
• Pedagogy: Principles and periods based on Hjalli-pedagogy and Allies development work for learning social and emotional skills; good practices
• Tools for early recognition of violence for parents, health care professionals and teachers

ALLIES – Teachers’ and Parents’ Alliance for Early Violence Prevention in Preschool, is an international two-year (2010-2012) research and development project. It aims to develop caring, community-based measures to prevent school violence. Implemented within a preschool context in dialogue with parents, the school community, and other supportive professionals, ALLIES examines ways to prevent non-systematic and systematic violence. It looks at hidden, subtle, and normalised violence through gender-sensitive and holistic perspectives.   ALLIES is funded by the European Commission Daphne III Programme and is coordinated by Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland.