- The ‘Violet Dot’ instrument aims to create safe environments for victims of gender violence
The government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, and the general director of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE), Gerardo Gutiérrez Ardoy, have inaugurated today the Violeta Points that have been installed in the employment offices of the Community of Madrid.
With them, the workers of this service, whose daily work of attention to citizenship is “essential”, can collaborate in the detection and attention of cases, which is “the first step so that women can get out of these environments of violence,” said the government delegate.
The installation of these Violeta Points in the offices of the SEPE also responds to the objective of the Government of Spain to “involve the whole society in a structural problem that must be tackled from its first symptoms to the end”, so that women know “that they are going to be accompanied, that they are going to have resources, that they are not alone”.
Presentation in Rivas Vaciamadrid
The presentation of this initiative was made at the employment office of the locality of Rivas Vaciamadrid, whose Benefits Area they have previously visited together with SEPE directors —Aurora Diz Monje, deputy general director of Resources and Organization; María Antonia Agudo Riaza, deputy general director of Institutional Relations and Legal Assistance; and Ricardo Cuesta García, provincial director of Madrid—, and with the presence of the deputy mayor of the locality, Mónica Carazo, and the government spokesperson of the City Council, José Alfaro.
The installation of the violet dots is the result of the joint work of the SEPE and the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation, which has included the holding of two training days (on 26 February and 4 March) given by personnel of the aforementioned Unit.
In them, the heads of the offices have received basic notions about concepts such as violence against women, regulatory regulations, profiles, process of violence, resources and tools that allow them to detect and help any woman who may be in this situation, with the idea that they will then be the ones who transmit this knowledge to the rest of employees.
Francisco Martín has acknowledged the commitment of the officials of the Public Service of State Employment, despite the fact that it represents “a challenge in his work, already intense”, and has stressed that “his work and his professionalism will be of great help in the great common challenge of ending male violence”.
The Violet Dots
In his opinion, to tackle this problem it is essential to “establish safe places for victims of male violence, so that these women can be cared for, supported and accompanied”. This is precisely the aim of an instrument such as the ‘Violet Point’: to create safe environments for victims of gender-based violence.
“Violeta Points save lives,” she said, and “they can help many women, not only to denounce, but also in their process of recovery and elimination from the violence they face.”
They are a symbol, a signal for women to know that this establishment, place, association or person is at their disposal to listen to it and accompany it, and knows the resources of integral care. It is also an informative resource, a guide for the environment of the victims with which co-workers, class, merchants with whom they usually deal, friends, family, neighbors, etc., can obtain information on how to act.
This initiative advances in compliance with the commitments made by the Government delegate on March 8 and, in this regard, has recalled its intention that all offices with attention to citizenship that depend on the Government Delegation have violet points “in the shortest possible time”.