Opciónate offers a Guide for professionals who deal with gender-based cyber-violence in Gran Canaria.

The document offers multidisciplinary content from the psychological, legal, cybersecurity and digital self-defence fields

Available on the website of the entity, it includes assessments and needs of the Island Network for the Prevention and Care of gender-based violence

With an alarming growth in digital violence, having materials that facilitate the care of victims is vital. With this objective in mind, the professionals of the Island Service for the Prevention of and Attention to Gender Violence (SIPACM) produced a Guide throughout 2023 and 2024, the pages of which echo the needs that those who work in the Island Network for the Prevention of and Attention to Gender Violence sent to the Service. With the publication, available for consultation and download on the website of the entity responsible for the SIPACM, Opciónate provides a useful tool for those working in this area to address gender-based cyber-violence.

Likewise, the Guide aims to contribute to improving the attention given to cybercrimes of a sexist nature through multidisciplinary psychological, legal, digital self-defence and cybersecurity support. We read more often than is desirable that cases of cyber-violence are on the rise, and that adolescent girls and women are especially vulnerable to suffering from them, due to the machismo that still permeates our societies explains Ana Lydia Fernández-Layos, director of Opciónate. Hence the importance of professionals having the necessary background to attend to victims from a multidisciplinary perspective, which the Guide summarises and synthesises’, she concludes. With this new document, Opciónate makes available to those working in the prevention and care of male violence an essential resource, developed from a holistic and feminist perspective, which permeates our societies’, explains Ana Lydia Fernández-Layos, director of Opciónate. Hence the importance of professionals having the necessary background to attend to victims from a multidisciplinary knowledge, which the Guide summarises and synthesises’, she concludes. With this new document, Opciónate makes available to those working in the prevention and care of male violence an essential resource, developed from a holistic and feminist perspective.