The device is one of the specific areas with the longest track record of support and addressing at the provincial level.
The Family Violence Prevention Service (SPVF) celebrated 37 years of service this week, always focusing on detection, accompaniment, support, guidance, referral and/or assistance in cases of family violence. The province of Neuquén has Provincial Law 2,785 against Family Violence, among others, which directly involves the provincial State to provide public policies on the issue.
The area is within the structure of the Family Coordination, in previous years it depended on portfolios linked to Social Development, and today the Family Violence Prevention Service is within the orbit of the Ministry of Government.
Lorena San Martín, director of the Family Violence Prevention Service, said that “the work carried out from the device is part of what is called -the critical path-, which begins from the moment we know that there is a complaint until we can separate the affected person from that situation of violence.”
Furthermore, he explained that the “Cycle of Violence” has different stages and begins with “a feeling of guilt, regret and false promises on the part of the aggressor, which leads to a reconciliation of the couple and/or cohabitants, then there is a period of apparent calm that accumulates tension and then ends in an attack due to a violent explosion.”
“Our job is to be able to restore rights that were violated by these situations of violence. We also have collaboration with other provincial institutions such as justice and defense offices, line 148, our guard 2785, health, hospitals, the police, the Mother Teresa shelter.” among others who work jointly, clarified María del Carmen Leonetti, a graduate in Social Work.
The SPVF team is made up of professionals in Social Work, Psychologists and Executors, and currently, its new location at 980 Brown Street in the city of Neuquén allows them to receive spontaneous requests. In addition, they share tasks in the same building along with guard 2785, which accentuates the good coordination of daily work. The current management, headed by Claudia Mesplatere, addresses past requests from the SPVF and guard 2785.
“Our motto is that a life without violence is possible, we believe that this is so, we can accompany and help these women and their families to live a dignified life, without violence,” emphasized Leonetti, a professional with an important career in the SPVF, together to San Martín and Claudia Medina, psychologist member of the team.
For the professionals, it is “important to show the daily work of the Family Violence Prevention Service because we assume a relevant commitment in each intervention,” they mentioned.
This complex issue requires inter-institutional and intra-institutional articulations accompanied by the general directorate of Violence Prevention and Assistance headed by Laura Mansilla, belonging to the provincial directorate of Violence, whose person is Mariela Manosalva, both under the orbit of the Coordination of Family of the Ministry of Government.
Mesplatere highlighted the new anniversary and the daily task, expressing that “in Neuquén we are accompanying women and families of all economic and cultural levels, we are going to continue strengthening our technical devices so that prevention actions as a public policy of the provincial State can go further and further.”
