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(municipalities) - and are themselves providers - alone and together with other
local authorities - of both the services envisaged by the agreement of 2014
and of the other services necessary for the realization of the personalized
project of exit from violence.
The medium-small centres, supported by the network. The second
group is composed of 15.8% of the AVCs; they are small centres with a territory
of competence that is predominantly interprovincial. In 2017 they
accompanied between 50 and 100 women, directing them, in most cases,
towards the bodies that provide the services, since they are part of the
territorial anti-violence network together with the Municipalities.
The centres with a strong and independent presence that also act
together with the network. The third group is the most extensive (34.8%): it
gathers fairly large centres in terms of both women followed and staff
engaged in the centre. The operators are also specifically trained on the
reception methodology and on foreign women while the training on the
reception of women with disabilities is lacking. These centres offer a plurality
of services (provided directly or by other territorial structures) and carry out
prevention and information activities at the schools and training for law
enforcement, lawyers and professional orders. They are the "historical"
centres, whose promoter and manager is mainly private, who have been
dealing exclusively with violence for more than thirteen years. Their rooting in
the territory is also confirmed by the presence of a very articulated territorial
anti-violence network, which includes the Municipality and health services but
also law enforcement, prosecutors and courts. These centres receive both
public and private funding and have almost total adherence to the
requirements of the Agreement, both with respect to the definition, to the
territorial network, and to the services offered.
Small centres, but not isolated from the network. The fourth group
(17.8% of the AVCs) is composed of small centres, promoted and managed by
private individuals, which do not deal exclusively with gender-based violence
and do not have access to public or private funding. They are centres that do
not focus on the training of their workers and, where they do, are supported
by external figures. Also for the services provided they mainly have the role of
accompanying towards the nodes of the territorial network to which they
belong, often coordinated by the prefecture in which law enforcement
agencies, prosecutors and / or courts, health services and social services
participate. Small centres, which provide only basic services. The fifth group,
the smallest one (4.7%), includes very small anti-violence centres, with a
catchment area that does not exceed 40 women a year and not very accessible
since they are open a few hours a day. They offer mainly listening and
reception services, psychological and legal counselling, but they do not
provide support activities to women's autonomy (job search, home search,

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