With the aim of generating reflective and re-educational processes in the people who generate violence, municipal and state authorities formally inaugurated the offices of the CECOVIM in this city.
The Secretary General of the City Council, Francisco Javier Vallejo Corona, on behalf of the interim mayor Jorge Antonio Quintero Alvarado, thanked the State Government for the economic resources from the Barrios de Paz program, operated by the Secretariat for Substantive Equality between Women and Men (SISEMH,) which were used for the creation of the Specialized Center for the Eradication of Violent Behaviors towards Women (CECOVIM,) and other supports that have allowed progress on the issue against gender violence.
He celebrated that it is the DIF's 'Day House' that houses the CECOVIM, and specified that these actions are a part of everything that has been worked on in the municipality in this matter; from signing coordination and collaboration agreements with the state, to modifying various municipal regulations from the external point of view towards the citizens and also internally.
Bertha Leticia Dueñas Aréchiga, director of the Municipal Institute for Women (IMM,) reported that the CECOVIM program had a great scope, since 329 activities have been carried out impacting 2,728 women, 1,424 men, and 5 intersex people, and added that all the resources granted by SISEMH have been very useful.
María Elena García Trujillo, undersecretary of Substantive Equality between Women and Men in the state, pointed out that they have worked very closely with all the instances and organisms to generate the institutional conditions, to take important steps in the eradication of violence against women in the municipality. She thanked the impetus and effort of the IMM and all the agencies to be able to advance in the implementation of the Technical Board of Alert on Gender Violence against Women.
She explained that CECOVIM has already been active in Puerto Vallarta, in a center specialized in the re-education of violent behaviors, and that it has its immediate antecedent in the local Violence Alert, a space that aims to generate reflective and re-educational processes in the generators of violence. It is one of the 17 places that have been installed in the interior of the state and that currently has approximately 16 men in the reeducation process who have been derived from the Prosecutor's Office and the Judicial Power.
Laura Angélica Pérez Cisneros, Director of Violence Prevention and head of the Barrios de Paz program, announced that Puerto Vallarta is in the second year that it has received resources from this program, in which this year 24 million pesos were allocated to 22 municipalities for the prevention of violence against women. This includes working with the aggressor in matters of substantive equality, from eradication to promoting effective fatherhood, stewardship, and self-love.
She thanked the Puerto Vallarta authorities for being one of the municipalities that received the three axes since last year, and this year, thanks to great work and the benefit of an approximate purse of 1,590,000 pesos. In addition she exhorted the professionals to strive in their titanic work, since the Barrios de Paz program is to be in the streets to provide care to those people who have used violence too much, and where policies sometimes do not reach, with the sole purpose that women and girls live a life free of violence.