Celebrating November 25th, 2022 International Day for Combating Gender-based Violence, we present the mapping of antiviolence centers in the city of Turin and province. Elaborated from data collected and published by the Piedmont Region, the map consists of 28 places, reference and listening points where to ask for help and support.

The mapping is a tool for everyone in need. Its interactive features make it possible to build a virtual and physical network where information, needs and stories can be exchanged, a tool to help the community give voice and support to all those who fight against gender-based violence.

The mapping can be seen on the Quartieri Attivi platform where some of our ongoing projects, in collaboration with the local community, converge, dedicated to telling, enhancing and improving the urban context of the city of Turin. The points and information associated with antiviolence centers are georeferenced and organized within the thematic list “Anti-Violence Centers Turin and Province” posted on the wall.

The antiviolence centers distributed in the Turin area are 9 to each of which are associated counters -28 in total- listening points and places to welcome and support women, and their minor children, who have suffered violence or are exposed to the threat of all forms of violence, regardless of their place of residence.

Specifically, the centers:

• offer free social protection, reintegration paths
• and social-health interventions;
• guarantee functionality and safety, both for the women received and their children, and for those who work there;
• operate in conjunction with the managing bodies of social welfare functions and public and private bodies dealing with gender-based violence, through the signing of protocols and operational agreements. Protocols are also entered into with associations that are experts on gender-based violence in various cultures and female genital mutilation in order to secure women of foreign origin and from other cultures.

Mapping is more than just putting places on a map, it means shaping and giving voice to the community in an inclusive way, taking into account the needs of all and all and bringing out the demands of underrepresented groups. The antiviolence centers’ map is a tool in the hands of those who need help and a way to start making concrete the vision we wish for the future of the next generation: a world without more gender violence!