Counseling and Psychological Care Provided by the Ministry of Social Development and Culture

Country	Seychelles
Year	2011
Type of Measure	Social services > Psycho-social counselling
Form of Violence	Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Brief Description

The Probation Services, Social Services Division, Ministry of Social Development and Culture, based in the capital Victoria, provide counseling and psychological care to victims/survivors of family violence regardless of sex, age and location.

Victims/survivors can call the following number: +248 4821500

Victims/survivors are informed of the availability of the service through referrals, court orders, TV programmes/spots, leaflets and documents, workshops etc.

Information and services are available in all three official languages (Creole, English and French).

Source of Information

Response of the Government of the Seychelles to the questionnaire on violence against women 2011