INDIA | ASIA
Family Counseling Centers
Type of Measure
Services > Social services > Shelter Safe accommodation
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence;
Violence against women and girls
Year
1953
Brief Description
The Scheme of Family Counseling Centres (FCCs) was introduced by the Central Social Board in 1953. The FCCs have been set up through the non-governmental organizations with the objective of providing referral and rehabilitative services to women and children who are victims of atrocities, family maladjustments and social ostracism and also provide crisis intervention and trauma counseling in case of natural disasters. FCCs are also being run in Police Headquarters premises and Mahila (Women ) Jails. These are set up with the objective of providing speedy crisis intervention to those women whose cases were registered in Police Stations. There are 890 FCCs working in India.
Source of Information
Response of the Government of India to the questionnaire on violence against women 2010
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