Councilwoman Women and Equal Opportunities, Josefa María Sánchez Méndez, has reported that the Care Center for Women Victims of Domestic Violence (CAVI) has conducted more than 1,600 interventions so far this year between the social, psychological and legal, and a total of more than 780 interventions were carried out during the years 2009 and 2008.
In addition, the mayor explained that they have served a total of 177 women who suffer or have suffered any physical violence and psychological, since its commissioning in late October 2008.
Of these, a total of 36 women have been referred to the career counseling service Employment Service and Training Regional de Murcia.
Each of the interventions, as the mayor explained, aims at getting comprehensive care, personal and continuing to provide them with social skills and psychological balance to enable it overcome the aftermath of abuse and prevent the imitative learning roles of perpetrator and victim.
This service provides comprehensive care to women who suffer or have suffered any act of physical and psychological violence, including assaults on sexual freedom, threats, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, by those who are or have been their spouses or those who are or have been linked to them by similar emotions, even without cohabitation.
The head of the area said that the city of Totana is working in the area of gender violence, stressing that during the course of the Care Center for Women Victims of Domestic Violence (CAVI), has treated women from different nationalities, with the Spanish nationality, followed by Ecuador and Bolivia, which have predominated.
During his meeting, which was attended by officers of the Guardia Civil de Totana, Local Police, staff of the Department of Women and CAVI, the area of Social Welfare, Health Center and Emergency Service personnel Totana Primary Care, noted the good coordination between the professionals involved in gender violence in the town of Totana, through the creation of this protocol to coordinate all actions taken on this issue.
