New publication from the Gender Equality Commission: “Recommendations for the care of equipment and reflecting on its application”

The text was prepared by the teams from the universities that make up the Violence Eradication Axis of the CRUCH Gender Equality Commission and was presented at the 5th Conference of Teams Working on Violence.

The publication offers recommendations for addressing burnout or burnout of the teams that work in the care of victims of gender violence in CRUCH universities.

With the purpose of helping the teams working on gender violence in the 30 institutions of the Council of Rectors and Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH), the Violence Eradication Axis of the CRUCH Gender Equality Commission recently presented the publication “Recommendations for the care of teams and reflecting on their application”.

“As the Violence Eradication Unit, we are very happy to be able to share this new document which, we believe, will contribute to greater workplace well-being for people who work with violence and will focus attention on this issue, so that care actions can be generated for those of us who are caring for others and who are also taking care of university environments so that they are free of violence,” says the Unit's coordinator, Hayley Durán.

As Durán explains, “the teams that work in the care of victims of gender violence in universities are especially vulnerable to experiencing burnout or burnout, "This is inherent in interacting with people's suffering.".

In that sense, in the process of preparing the text, “first it was necessary to make visible the characteristics of this work in everyday life and, secondly, we focused on ensuring that the strategies to address this burnout are formal, planned and with an institutional budget for the special care of those teams that work in the care of violence,” explains Durán, who serves as Coordinator(s) of the Gender Equity Unit of the University of Aysén.

This new publication, prepared during 2023 by the teams of the 12 universities that make up the Violence Eradication Axis, expands on one of the chapters of the book “Kaleidoscope Model: a proposal for addressing gender violence in the university context”, released in April 2022.

See text “Recommendations for equipment care and reflection on its application”

Working day

The text was released at the 5th Conference of Teams Working on Violence, which took place online on Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22, and is held annually with the aim of allowing teams from the gender departments and units of CRUCH universities to share their experiences in matters of gender violence.

At the start of the first day of the meeting, the coordinator of the Gender Equality Commission, Angélica Marín, valued the continuity of the systematic work of the axis and highlighted the challenges that universities will have with the new Law 21.643, called the Karin Law, as well as with the comprehensive bill for protection against gender violence.

Then, Hayley Durán, coordinator of the Violence Axis, from the University of Aysén, gave an account of the lines of work and actions between 2019 and 2023.

Next, the text of “Recommendations for the care of equipment and reflecting on its application” was presented and its content was commented on by the deputy director of the Good Treatment Program, of the Pontifical Catholic University, Dr. Andrea Machuca.

Subsequently, the participants established some priorities for 2024, such as a joint study; the development of internships and knowledge exchanges (virtual or in-person); and a collaborative activity to commemorate November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women). International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women).

As for the second part of the day of the meeting, it was dedicated to sharing experiences regarding the implementation of Law 21.369 in relation to the “Prevention Models and Investigation and Sanction Model”, and the legal technical observations.