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The regional government plans to incorporate next year as a public service |
Authorities, police officers and dozens of people have seen this morning as a woman walking her dog in the Plaza of Spain in San Javier when after suffering an attempted assault by a man, the dog has locked while women earned time to ask for police assistance.
It was a demonstration of the SCAN project, a program to help women victims of gender violence using the dog as a therapy to regain self-esteem, combat loneliness and fear, and feel protected in public spaces to an attempt to macho aggression.
The presentation of this project, the first in Spain that developed the Solcan Center, located in San Javier, was part of the program that the Department of Women and Equal San Javier celebrates International Day for the Elimination of Violence to Woman.
The SCAN project works successfully in different parts of Spain Murcia although it join the administration from next year in the fight against gender violence and victim protection, through the network of Sales Centers Specialized Women Victims of Violence, CAVI, announced the general director of Woman, Alicia Barquero who attended the presentation with the mayor, José Miguel Luengo, and several councilors of the Municipal Corporation of San Javier.
Fernando Soleto, project manager, explained that this is a dog-assisted therapy adjusted to the current legislation in Spain, whose beneficiaries, previously assessed by a multidisciplinary team, must meet certain requirements in addition to a court order of protection .
Once the team of psychologists, therapists, social workers, legal and trainers point out a suitable candidate starts the training phase and coexistence between the woman and the animal.
On security, the dog will muzzled, it has the function of preventing aggression and buy time for women to claim the relevant police protection.
Dogs used, molinois Belgian shepherds are fully socialized and attack only a clear attempt to put aggression in clear danger to its owner, said Soleto.
The Director General of Women, Alicia Barquero highlighted the effectiveness of this project "that the Ministry is ready to take in the region of Murcia through an agreement to be signed next year" and thanked the private sector in the fight against gender violence I like in this case will serve to join forces.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo emphasized the commitment of the government in this fight "with concrete facts as the incorporation of this project as a tool".
In the area, there is a private event which already has one of these dogs.
It is one of 17 currently providing services throughout Spain, all of them in the private sphere, recalled the mayor of Women and Equality, Estíbaliz Masegosa backing the project emerged in San Javier.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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