Violence Committees are committees that were set up in hospitals in the early 1990s.

Their role is to improve the treatment and the prevention of violence by counseling other staff members in their organizations about identification and treatment of violence victims, gathering data and reporting on violence cases, developing prevention programs, training staff in their organizations and advising the managements of their organization on the issue.

The ISHA project together with the Ministry of Health developed a training model for these Committees, about 200 doctors, nurses and social workers.

In March 2007, two training sessions were held for members of the Violence Committees.

These training sessions were a pilot designed to evaluate the program that will be offered to members of all violence committees.

Sixteen people, from five or six committees took part in each session.

The participants included employees of the Health Funds, regional health bureaus of the Ministry of Health, and hospitals.

Each training session lasted for three days and was comprised of two parts: the first part was a workshop of two consecutive days with an organizational advisor who concentrated on forging a good team spirit among the members of the committees and developing their skills in working as a committee.

The second part was a one-day workshop at the Medical Simulation Center (M.S.R), which was devoted in part to one-on-one practice with victims of violence and in part to practicing the work of the committee.

This workshop took place about a week after the end of the first workshop.

Findings from the Evaluation of the Pilot of the Training Program held by the Brookdale Institute suggests that following the training program, there was an improvement in most of the areas that were checked: the sense of competence in identifying and treating victims of violence, knowledge of Violence Committee regulations, attitudes, the sense of competence in counseling other workers on the issue of violence, the tools to carry out the Committee's various assignments.
 
In summary it can be said that the workshop met real needs.

People expressed the desire to continue meeting, and it seems that the members of the Committee need an ongoing framework for support and learning.