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IPS131 Roberta C. et al.
The survey was carried out in the months of June - July 2018 and 281 anti-
violence centres (AVC) were found, meeting the requirements of the 2014
Agreement and active on 31/12/2017. Of these, 253 completed the
questionnaire, 24 provided no information and 4 were no longer active at the
time of the survey. The response rate is 90%. The study do not take into
account the 106 anti-violence centres and services that do not belong to the
Intesa Agreement.
The descriptive analysis have pointed out differences between centres in
terms of organizational aspects and type of services provided. These
differences seem to be relevant according to regions and years of experience
of the single centre. For these reasons all the variables connected with the two
dimensions were synthesized with two different correspondence analysis. The
three main factors of each analysis were used to group the centres through a
cluster analysis.
The organizational dimension was represented by: opening hours,
presence of the centre in the list of the national number against violence 1522,
participation of the centre and type of authority involved in the violence
network, type of funding, training course of workers and volunteers and type
of training, use of a scale for the Risk Assessment, monitoring activity,
presence of local branch, workers classes, percentage of volunteers.
The services dimension was represented by: year of the centre opening,
type and mission of the managing authority, type of services provided, classes
of women users.

3. Result
The Italian ratification law of the Istanbul Convention (Law 27 June 2013,
n. 77) identifies as an objective that of having an anti-violence centre every
ten thousand inhabitants. At 31 December 2017, 281 anti-violence centres
were active in our country, equal to 0.05 centres per 10 thousand inhabitants.
Those who participated in the survey are 253, while the remaining 28 did not
respond to the survey.
In 2017 women that have turned to the anti-violence centres are 49,152,
of which 29,227 have started a specific and individual project of exit from
violence.
The centres mainly provide listening and reception services, legal support,
guidance and support for other services, psychological support, help in
moving away from the violent partner, work orientation, support for
autonomy. In some cases the service is provided directly from the specialized
service, in others, from the service in collaboration with the no specialized
services in the area, in others, the centre performs the addressing function.
Most of the centres, 86%, work in a network with other territorial entities
even though there are 11% of the centres that do not belong to any territorial

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