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The project goal is to increase the availability of specialist counselling centres for women - survivors of intimate partner violence and their children in the Košice region, to make information about the counselling centres and help and support them. To provide it more available to women and improve institutions'' response in cases of intimate partner violence against women. The project partners are responsible for providing and enhancing the existing services, establishing a new counselling centre in Gelnica, and carrying out project activities locally. The project aims to provide protection from gender-based violence, particularly intimate partner violence, to women and their children in existing and new counselling centres in the Košice region. In cooperation with regional coordinators of field social work and local municipalities, the project will train field social workers and community centre social workers in marginalised Roma communities in the Košice region with a view to increasing access of Roma women experiencing intimate partner violence to help and support.