Ministry of Gender Equality and Family's 'Stalking Victim Support Pilot Project' Selected for All Three Nationwide
Counseling, Housing, Living, Legal, Investigation, Personal Safety, Recovery Treatment ... Busan-Style One-Stop Support
Busan City has been finally selected for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s public contest project, the ‘Pilot Project for Supporting Stalking Victims.’
The contest was conducted in three areas targeting stalking victims: ▲emergency housing support ▲rental housing support ▲treatment and recovery program support. Busan City was the only city nationwide to be selected for all three types.
The ‘Pilot Project for Supporting Stalking Victims’ is a project that provides customized services to stalking victims to help them return to daily life. It supports providing individual residential rental housing, installing safety equipment within facilities, cooperating with the police, and operating step-by-step treatment and recovery programs.
The project executing organizations are the Busan Women’s Violence Comprehensive Prevention Center and the Domestic Violence Counseling Center affiliated with the Women’s Culture and Human Rights Center.
The city plans to provide a Busan-style one-stop service for stalking victims, covering everything from stalking victim reporting to counseling, housing, investigation, legal support, and treatment recovery, not limited to this pilot project.
By utilizing projects within the Busan Women’s Violence Prevention Comprehensive Support Center (hereinafter the Center), the city will strengthen the integrated support system for stalking victims. Through a resident autonomous police officer within the Center, it plans to support investigation procedure counseling for stalking victims, assist in writing complaints, and connect with the relevant police stations.
Additionally, the city plans to provide direct counseling and ongoing consultation for victims through an expert advisory group consisting of lawyers, clinical psychologists, and professors within the Center.
A city official stated, “We will faithfully implement this pilot project and actively strive to support customized services for victims suffering from stalking so that they can return to their daily lives.”
The Busan Women’s Violence Prevention Comprehensive Support Center provides 24/7 reporting, reception, counseling, victim support, and linkage services for various women’s violence cases in the region. In particular, it has established an integrated protection system to promptly respond to new types of gender violence, such as the recently increasing stalking, digital sex crimes, dating violence, and power-based sexual crimes, providing services without blind spots for victims.
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