Councilwoman Women and Equal Opportunities, Josefa Maria Sanchez, has reported that the town of Totana have a Support Center for Victims of Violence, CAVI, under the signature of an agreement that will materialize soon with the Institute Women of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, to prevent these women have to travel to Alhama.
The center aims to provide comprehensive and continuing this problem, so that women are capable of overcoming the effects of abuse, and face life independently, giving them social skills and psychological stability needed for this, explained the mayor.
For the operationalization of CAVI is conditioned municipal space for the purpose of serving women victims of violence living in the town of Totana, from different professional approaches (legal, social and psychological) according to the protocols of action, also provide individual and group treatment
The mayor noted that equality policies and many other related to women in the town of Totana, revolve around the II Plan for Equality between Men and Women of Totana, one of its most important goals to achieve "eradicating the scourge gender violence. "
Thus, in the town was producing an average of 150 complaints per year for physical and / or psychological violence against women at home, said Josefa Maria Sanchez, who said that "in many cases is the helplessness felt by victims of violence gender to the lack of resources and social and legal resources that makes no complaint. "
