7th international EFJCA Conference, 6 and 7 October 2025, Heraklion (Greece)

Bio Pascale Franck

Pascale is the Vice-president of the European Family Justice Center Alliance (EFJCA) and founder of the Family Justice Center Antwerp, she works for the Flemish government in enrolling the multidisciplinary approach of domestic violence and child abuse.

Pascale Franck is criminologist and experienced project manager and team leader, with a demonstrated history of developing and coordinating multi-agency approaches and cross-professional cooperation in the field of gender-based violence, domestic violence and child abuse. Her main tasks are the development, management, monitoring and sustainability of the multidisciplinary centers on domestic violence and child abuse in Belgium and abroad.

In this approach she focuses on methodology bringing empowerment of survivors of violence (adults/children). Trauma-informed care and client-centered approach are the lead in this development. During her 32-year career Pascale developed a FJC, a shelter, perpetrator programs and projects for children witnessing and/or experiencing family violence.

Pascale is the co-author of the book “One Safe Place for Hope and Empowerment, development of the multidisciplinary approach of domestic violence, child abuse and sexual abuse in European Family Justice Centers”.