INAUGURATED IN SIENA “SPAZIO SICURO”, THE LISTENING CENTER FOR LGBTQIA PERSONS + *
Branch offices in the capital and in the province.
“Safe Space” was inaugurated yesterday in Siena, the first listening and reception center for LGBTQIA + people * with branches spread across Siena and the province.
Born from a project of Arcigay Siena – Pansexual Movement and realized with the support of UNAR (National Office against Racial Discrimination – A Defense of Differences) and the collaboration of the Province of Siena and 5 Municipalities belonging to the RE.A.DY Network (Abbadia San Salvatore, Castiglione d’Orcia, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Murlo and Pienza), the Center will have its headquarters at Arcigay at the Corte dei Miracoli in Via Roma 56 and it will be possible to access it without booking and / or by appointment by writing to spazioosicuro @ movimentopansessuale. it or by calling 3450458870.
At the Center open at the Corte dei Miracoli (Via Roma 56) from Monday to Friday from 17.00 to 19.00 the thematic desks are active: psychological, trans *, health, legal / migrants / work and Sos Parents, designed to satisfy requests. more specific. Each will be attended by operators and operators trained by the National Training Group of Arcigay and coordinated by Angelina Gerardi who will refer to the network of the following professionals: Paola Petrigli (psychologist), Francesca Mazzoli (psychologist), Cristina Rubegni (counselor), Barbara Rossetti (medical ), Giulia Toto (doctor), Daniele Marianello (doctor), Marco Pastore (lawyer), Eduardo Santillan (cultural mediator).
The Safe Space Center has a telephone line active during the closing hours of the Center to manage any emergencies: 3450458870. In addition, it has six satellite counters in the municipalities of the province involved in the project, open 1 day a week and specifically: in Abbadia San Salvatore the counter is open every Monday from 17.00 to 19.00 at the Palazzo Comunale in Via Roma 2; in Castiglione d’Orcia, the counter is open every Tuesday from 17.00 to 19.00 at the Municipal Library in Via Guglielmo Marconi 11, external access; in Castelnuovo Berardenga the counter is open every Wednesday from 17.00 to 19.00 at the Registry Office of Quercegrossa, Via Tarantelli 1 / A inside the school complex; at Vescovado di Murlo the counter is open every Thursday from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm in the multipurpose hall of the Municipality of Murlo, access from via Aldo Moro; in Pienza it is open every Friday from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm in Via di Circonvallazione Ex Galere.
The network of branches has the primary purpose of welcoming people who need the main help and listening but also the level one to raise awareness on LGBTQIA + * issues the public and private subjects operating in the cultural and social field in the Sienese territory and to make them mature in these realities a knowledge of lgbtqia + * issues with consequent benefits in contrasting homo / lesbo / bi / trans / a / phobia.