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GAPS volunteer staff, among which are psychologists, social workers and technical support, it has received specialized training regarding protocols for action in cases of abuse by gender violence, also including attention to child abuse training.

The group remains on call all weekend from 00:00 Saturday until 9:00 Monday

The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, along with the Directors General of Emergency and Women of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Manuel Duran and Alicia Barquero, respectively, presented this morning to the Group Psychological Care and Social (GAPS ) Civil Protection Lorca, currently composed of 13 members, including psychologists, social workers and support technicians are.

Francisco Jodar explained that "last July 29 Lorca City Council signed an agreement with the Department of Family and Equal Opportunities whose main aim was to coordinate optimally our collaboration and develop joint actions between municipality and autonomous region through the Group Social Psychological care and Civil Protection, a group with extensive experience in the prevention and emergency response. "

Lorca Mayor has stated that "thanks to that convention volunteer staff GAPS has received specialized training regarding protocols for action in cases of abuse by gender violence, also including attention to child abuse training. In addition, they have implemented the relevant coordination mechanisms between the device Telephone Assistance for Battered Women 112, the GAPS, the municipal care team gender violence city Council and the Planning and Prevention Programs Directorate General of Women . on the other hand they have been established communication protocols for the referral of cases from the 112 and the frequency of meetings aimed at coordinating tasks. "

Jodar has added that "given from the Autonomous Community training was conducted by the Planning and Programs for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, along with the collaboration of CAVI Lorca, the device urgent call for battered women 112 and the Department of Family and Equal Opportunities. since September the GAPS began his acting, and since then this group remains on call all weekend, Saturday from 00:00 until 9:00 on Monday. GAPS activation is always done by a social worker from the device Urgent Care for Battered Women 112.

The mayor thanked them all "commitment and dedication" and encouraged them to "consolidate as a useful tool for all those women who need their services to such a dramatic situation is violence within the home. ideally, in a just world it would not have to necesitaros, but unfortunately there are injustices and we need good people like you who want to give their time and effort to reach the collective good ".

Finally, the Mayor has expressed his gratitude to the region.

"Just working closely all public administrations, with the impulse of the citizen, we can face problems of the magnitude of gender violence. Today we showed again that in the fight against gender violence no excuses, we fought side by side in this fundamental battle for our society and we are not willing to suffer so unjustly women scourge alone. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca