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Milan, August 27 2021 - Protection and support for women who suffer violence, information and training initiatives to bring out the phenomenon and encourage the social and cultural change necessary for its prevention. With these objectives, the Administration will shortly publish a tender for the co-planning of the project 'Counteracting gender-based abuse and violence', the guidelines for which were approved today.

The project will last two years, starting from January 2022, and will be financed with municipal resources of 1,6 million euros, to which others will be added, provided by the Lombardy Region. Additional funding will also be put in place, precisely through the co-planning mechanism, by the private social sector itself which, under the direction of the Administration, will be able to implement and strengthen the interventions and services provided.

The type of services requested ranges from anti-violence centers which, free of charge, offer telephone interviews or on-site meetings, support, psychological and legal assistance, guidance on living autonomy and the services offered, up to refuge homes, apartments or beds in community structures that guarantee a protected daily life and personalized projects for the return to normality. Finally, a third line of intervention is that of supporting individual paths and coordinating the subjects of the inter-institutional network. 

To date, there are nine anti-violence centers plus a health center at ATTS Santi Carlo e Paolo (Women's Counseling and Relief Centre), which have increased by two units over the last five years. 
There are also nine shelter homes. The total beds available for mother/child families and single women are around 40 in different structures: communities, apartments and protected collective spaces.
In 2020, the anti-violence network followed and accompanied 2.089 women (in 2016 there were 1.671). Around 5 thousand contacts and more than 20 thousand people (men and women) intercepted by the awareness, information and training activities organized by the Anti-Violence Network Centres.