Description: Children's Houses are a nationwide service established to ensure that children and other particularly vulnerable groups that may have been victims of violence and sexual abuse, and where the matter has been reported to the police, can receive good, coordinated follow-up. Children’s Houses are tasked with facilitating interviews and medical examinations, offering treatment and follow-up, and ensuring multidisciplinary and inter-agency interaction is coordinated. A total of eleven Children's Houses have been established in Norway, as well as three sub-units of Children's Houses. Since 2012, the Children's House in Tromsø has had national responsibility for Sami-speaking child victims of violence or sexual abuse, and has received funding to employ a Sami-speaking staff member. The Children's House provides Sami children with the same quality of assessments, follow-up and treatments as Norwegian-speaking children.
Available in Norwegian.