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Center Network Specialized Care for Women Victims of Domestic Violence (CAVI) continues to work in the city to fight this social scourge.

To this end, the City Council has strengthened its services with the extension of the working hours of its professionals, to reduce waiting lists and provide immediate service that can respond to these women.

So this morning the Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, and the Councillor for Equality, David Martinez, at a press conference informing the set of actions that are being carried out from the collective to combat gender violence.

The CAVI had so far with a social worker who worked 21 hours a week and a psychologist to 20 hours a week, following the decision from the Department of Equality and the government team will work full-time with 35 hours per week to pay proper care and thus resolve the failures of service.

In addition, since the City Council has asked the community increased benefits that can meet the need of the municipality, including extending also to the entire workday atiempo of attorney, which currently only serves two days a week.

In recent years there has been an economic game by from the Community to of 48,353 euros, a budget that can not remain frozen at the increase in demand for this service, as reported by David Martinez, considering that in 2015 this service attended 1352 women, 239 of these new cases, serving also to victims of gender violence of the Union.

This need reinforcement on equality and gender violence resulted in the adoption of a motion unanimously at the plenary session of the Regional Assembly on 24 September on measures to promote a Covenant against Gender Violence, which placed special emphasis on strengthening the network of public services and municipal social services centers, women's centers and CAVI, a sign that when there is political will may be giving solutions, has indicated Castejon.

The goal from the government team is to solve the shortcomings that have been so far because, as indicated by the Councillor for Equality, women requesting help were given appointments for a month and a half, taking into account the sensitivity of this problem and the need for immediate action.

To this a waiting list of more than 100 women to be served, which is to reduce and even eliminate the increased working hours of professionals who work there, for what that assistance is requested by the Community, adds .

ACTION FOR EQUALITY

Councillor for Equality, David Martinez, took the opportunity to remember the actions that are being developed from the council, since from February through awareness campaign If you feel suffocated ... is not love, has reached the secondary schools to raise awareness to this social scourge.

The goal, as indicated Martinez is extended to primary school pupils and children these campaigns to introduce these values ​​to the smallest.

In addition, through posters displayed throughout the city, is reporting the address where to go and emergency phones for these women are informed.

Also it is conducting a sociological study of the perception of gender violence in the city to see the reality of the area in this regard, as a preliminary study, to know how to respond and focus actions also be working on the regulation II Municipal Plan for Equality, as noted by the Councillor for Equality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena