Assistance to children under 18 multiplies almost threefold
In 2021, the Comprehensive Care Center for Victims of Assault and Sexual Abuse in the Community served 211 new users, 67.4% more than the previous year. Total interventions were 2,163, the vast majority of them referring to psychological care for victims, reaching 1,260 services in 2021, compared to 898 in 2020, an increase of 40%. Something that, according to the vice president and counselor for Women, Equality, LGTBI, Families and Social Policy, Isabel Franco, “demonstrates the consolidation of this service launched in 2018.”
His department published the first action guide for sexual violence against women, which provides information, guidelines for action and identifies the different types of violence and abuse in the sexual sphere, and discloses how to act and where to go in these situations. .
Isabel Franco presented this new tool this Friday, edited through the General Directorate for Women and Gender Diversity, together with the Prevention and Comprehensive Care Service for Victims of Sexual Abuse and Assault, Cavax, at the San Javier City Council with the presence of the mayor, José Miguel Luengo, as it is the municipality in which the last roaming of the Cavax service has been launched.
Franco stressed that “one of the most significant data that this balance leaves us [de víctimas de 2021], it is not only the increase in new users and interventions, but also the fact that care for children under 18 has registered an increase of 155% in 2021 compared to 2020, going from 71 to 181 ». Hence, according to the vice president, “the publication of this first guide to action against sexual violence is so necessary, since the data shows that, unfortunately, more and more women demand this service and need help and advice.”
Franco thanked the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, for his involvement in “such an important issue, since it is vital to provide women with tools such as this guide, with information and guidelines for action, so that they know what to do and where to go. if they find themselves in any situation of sexual violence.
sexual consent
The guide consists of three parts: knowing sexual violence, identifying its different types and knowing how to act in a situation of sexual violence. The publication also focuses on fundamental aspects such as explaining what sexual consent is, which is free, voluntary and non-binding, since its violation is the gateway to the different crimes that make up sexual violence such as assault, rape, abuse or harassment. .
This publication will be distributed in town halls, the network of care resources for women victims of gender-based violence, associations and other entities. Among the essential awareness-raising activities included in this first guide in this area is knowing how to act if we have suffered sexual violence or we meet someone who has suffered it and fundamentally where to go: emergency telephone number 112; of assistance to victims of gender violence, 016; 24-hour assistance and information on sexual assault and abuse, 722 515 148 or by appointment at the General Directorate for Women on 900 710 06. The action guide for sexual violence against women will be available on the web
https://equalityandviolenciadegenero.carm.es/
In addition, from the Ministry of Women and Equality, the campaign ‘That’s not Sex’ was launched this week, aimed at young people in the Region to prevent sexual violence and explain that pornography has nothing to do with sex . It is also planned, this same Saturday, the 12th, the start-up of the sexual violence awareness day aimed at volunteers from the emergency psychosocial care unit.