This week different activities are held related to November 25, the date on which the International Day for the elimination of gender-based violence against women is commemorated.The councilor, Mónica Sánchez, recalled that “from this council we want to join this fight so that we all become aware that from education, awareness, prevention and intervention we can fight to eradicate gender violence, which constitutes an attack on dignity of the woman".To deal with this social scourge, the Department of Women and Equality launched in February the PAE: Specialized Attention Meeting Point for women victims of gender violence.This service has been subsidized by the Women's Council, LGTBI, Social Policy and family and created to offer psychological treatment, individual or group, to women victims of abuse, providing emotional support necessary to enhance their social and psychological skills, and to face successfully lived experiences.The care is carried out in a comprehensive way from different professional approaches together with the CAVI: legal, social, and psychological, giving advice, information and training.From this space, attention is also paid to minor sons and daughters by referring them to SAPMEX and women who are victims of sexual assault are referred to CAVAX (Center for Attention to Victims of Sexual Assault) for specialized psychological care. Women over 18 years of age who suffer or have suffered abuse at the hands of their partners or former partners can go to the PAE.
Exceptionally and always with the maternal or paternal consent, it will be possible to intervene with female adolescents under 18 years of age who suffer gender violence.The PAE offers individual, confidential and personalized attention, free of charge for the time necessary.
The psychological intervention program is tailored to the needs of each woman.
No prior complaint is required. TIMETABLE: MONDAY TO FRIDAY PAE CEHEGIN telephone number: 621229052 CAVAX 968221900At the same time, the Councilor for Women and Equality has also recalled that since last March a service has been running to prevent sexist violence aimed at women in the city.It is a mobile application to avoid cases of harassment or gender violence.
The “Avisa Cehegín” application was made available to women on their mobile devices.You can download this application for free from PLAY STORE and APP STORE.
And it is active for Android devices and now also on IPhone.The app allows you to activate an alarm system, in which you also have to register in the application itself to activate it, connected to the Local Police Center in situations of insecurity, harassment, persecution or violence.With the initiative, there is a rapid communication channel with the Local Police to improve the intervention time and avoid, as much as possible, that events of gender violence occur in Cehegín.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín