The purpose of Angola's Family Counseling Centers is to provide legal assistance to people, to educate and inform them of their rights, and to provide psychosocial assistance to victims of violence. The Family Counseling Centers arose to reinforce the service work being done by partners from non-governmental organizations, such as the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA) — which created the first counseling center for victims of violence in 1987, and created in 2000, in Luanda, the first shelter for women who have been victims of violence — and offered a number of seminars in various provinces to train Legal Advisors. Training programs will be launched on the national level for family counselors through the Project to Support Gender Issues in Angola in order to standardize the services provided and enable Family Counseling Centers to perform better.