Metzineres. Environments of Shelter for Womxn who Use Drugs Surviving Violences is the first integrated harm reduction program from Catalonia exclusively for women. With holistic and individualized scopes tailored to the particularities of anybody, it offers direct and immediate access to flexible proposals in accordance with women´s expectations, disquietudes, curiosities, interests and needs. Throughout an innovatively daring grassroots intervention model, unfolded in Environments of Shelter, sustained by community-based strategies anchored in human rights and gender mainstreaming, that prove reliable, pragmatic, cost-effective, where every woman is a protagonist.
Metzineres is displayed by Environments of Shelter where they may take part and wander in virtue of their demands of wellbeing, circumstances, ambivalences, mutable degrees of involvement and entrust for accompaniment. It is about mitigating possibilities of failure as to avoid revictimization or secondary traumatisation.
Environment for healing, training and recovery
The Meanwhile is open to all WUDSV, with a refreshing agenda of training, occupational, cultural and leisure activities. Easing basic needs, giving social health careness and deploying a wide range of choices for self-healing, bonding, wisdom sharing, self-defence, solidarity and mutual support, whilst seeking to enhance technical proficiency and advocacy.
Environment for productivity
The Plucky fosters professional worth, entrepreneurship and job opportunities satisfying to WUDSV that challenge hampering labour markets, stimulates employability with regular steady incomes, and potentiates skills, boosts self-sufficiency, inspires personal growth.
Environment for housing
The Cover becomes secure housing that invites serenity, intimacy, rest and protection for WUDSV in situation of homelessness or that have run from home, laying at their will a whole range of therapeutic elements to propitiate stability.
Last update Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
Womxn (% from 268)
Cis Woman 236 88.1% Transexual woman 23 8.6% All 268
Old bands (% from 246)
From 20 to 29 years old 40 16.3% From 30 to 39 years old 80 32.5% From 40 to 49 years old 74 30.1% From 50 to 59 years old 41 16.7% 60 or older 10 4.1% Vulnerability / exclusion factors (% from 238)
Problems related to drugs 170 71.4% Adult over 55 years old 30 12.6% Young 49 20.6% Migrated 97 40.8% Functional diversity 17 7.1% Racialized 47 19.7% LGTBIQ 45 18.9% Sexual worker 43 18.1% Sex for survival 76 31.9% Ranks of mental health 109 45.8% Homeless 133 55.9% Without cover 125 52.5% Imprisonment 75 31.5% Others 3 1.3% Where is accompaniment taken (% from 17784)
Street 464 2.6% XADUD 751 4.2% Outside activity 1475 8.3% Telephone 1297 7.3% 0.0% La VidAlegre 12518 70.4% Home address 42 0.2% 0.0% Social media 96 0.5% Other 1141 6.4% Foundations (% from 34310)
0.0% Food 14518 42.3% NSP 602 1.8% Shower 2186 6.4% Washing / drying machine 884 2.6% Clothing swap 1465 4.3% Sleep by day 1961 5.7% Thelephone/ Internet 3355 9.8% Transport 421 1.2% Condoms 301 0.9% Chat / Mutual suport 8349 24.3% Image 1917 5.6% Housing 537 1.6% Activities (% from 5280)
Workshop 1608 30.5% Outing 146 2.8% DIRD 300 5.7% XADUD 607 11.5% Assembly 562 10.6% Second hand market 150 2.8% Activism 517 9.8% Network articulation 291 5.5% Communitary activity 1027 19.5% Congress / Session 72 1.4% Educational intervention (% from 23267)
Counseling / Information 1502 6.5% Accompaniment 409 1.8% Followup 9429 40.5% Contact with family abd/or partner 366 1.6% Addressing violences 1932 8.3% "ConSumo Cuidado" 3951 17.0% Conflict resolution 453 1.9% Emotional support 5225 22.5% Approach to sexual work 722 3.1% Sanitary intervention (% from 13679)
Anamnesis 2151 15.7% Consultation 4074 29.8% Followup 6381 46.6% Cure 813 5.9% Accompaniment 78 0.6% Urgency 134 1.0% Domiciliary visit 16 0.1% Overdose 13 0.1% Unexpected effects of consumption 12 0.1% Social work (% from 928)
Initial interview 148 231.8% Followup on site 143 15.4% Followup on telephone 85 9.2% Acompaniment 66 7.1% Follow-up of the case (articulation with other RSS feeds) 316 34.1% Domiciliary visit or other places of residence or stay 18 1.9% Derivation 35 3.8% Family contact 16 1.7% Procedures 90 9.7% Employability 11 1.2% Supervised consumption (% from 3448)
Alcohol 673 19.5% Other 18 0.5% Energetic drinks 34 1.0% Benzodiacepine 4 0.1% Cannabis 348 10.1% Cocaine 1176 34.1% Depo-progevere 5 0.1% Heroin 475 13.8% Depo-progevere NOT prescribed 12 0.3% Hormones 6 0.2% Methadone 129 3.7% Methanphetamines 67 1.9% Other opiate 3 0.1% Speed / Amphetamine 89 2.6% Speedball 141 4.1% Tobacco 13 0.4% Tropicamida 245 7.1% Ube 10 0.3% Substances and related problems (179 women consumers and 111 with problems)
Substance Current consumption Problems related Alcohol 79 30 Antipsychotics 11 2 Benzodiacepine 33 15 Cannabis 60 5 Cocaine snorted 40 9 Cocaine smoked 86 53 Cocaine injected 46 35 Heroine snorted 11 1 heroine smoked 35 12 heroine injected 60 41 Methadone 37 19 Methanphetamines 13 5 Speed / Amphetamine 25 5 Speedball 26 19 Tobacco 93 41 Tropicamida 2 2 During childhood (% from 45)
Physical aggressions 23 51.1% Sexual aggressions 16 35.6% Rape 7 15.6% Psychological aggressions 21 46.7% Lgtbi-phobia 13 28.9% Other 1 2.2% Family breakdown 26 57.8% Institutionalization 6 13.3% Criminalization 2 4.4% Sexual or sex-affective partner (% from 67)
Physical aggressions 59 88.1% Sexual aggressions 12 17.9% Rape 6 9.0% Psychological aggressions 58 86.6% Verbal 49 73.1% Environmental 35 52.2% Economic 22 32.8% Other 9 13.4% Family breakdown 1 1.5% Criminalization 1 1.5% Stigma / discrimination 2 3.0% Vulnerability confidentiality / intimacy 1 1.5% Mistreat 3 4.5% Other 1 1.5% Security deposit / fine unavailable 1 1.5% Eviction 1 1.5% Nearby environment (% from 39)
Physical aggressions 14 35.9% Sexual aggressions 9 23.1% Rape 6 15.4% Psychological aggressions 16 41.0% Verbal 15 38.5% Environmental 13 33.3% Economic 8 20.5% Lgtbi-phobia 12 30.8% Unknown (% from 28)
Physical aggressions 14 50.0% Sexual aggressions 6 21.4% Rape 9 32.1% Psychological aggressions 6 21.4% Environmental 6 21.4% Economic 4 14.3% Lgtbi-phobia 10 35.7% Other 1 3.6% Physical 1 3.6% Sexual 2 7.1% Rape 1 3.6% Social care system (% from 32)
Ignoring the demands 8 25.0% Family intrusion 8 25.0% Stigma / discrimination 22 68.8% Vulnerability confidentiality / intimacy 13 40.6% Lgtbi-phobia 8 25.0% Not supporting idiomatic barriers 6 18.8% Other 2 6.2% Health care system (% from 33)
Ignoring the demands 8 24.2% Family intrusion 1 3.0% Stigma / discrimination 19 57.6% Vulnerability confidentiality / intimacy 11 33.3% Mistreat 2 6.1% Lgtbi-phobia 8 24.2% Not supporting idiomatic barriers 4 12.1% Other 4 12.1% Judicial system (% from 25)
Preventive prison 8.0% Security deposit / fine unavailable 28.0% Disproportionate condemnation 44.0% Multiple short jails 28.0% False conviction 12.0% Stigma / discrimination 36.0% Inadequate defense 28.0% Lgtbi-phobia 8.0% Other 12.0% Police system (% from 17)
Ignoring the demands 8 32.0% Physical 4 23.5% Sexual 2 11.8% Psychological 5 29.4% Harassment 6 35.3% Economic 1 5.9% Access to treatment as a form of coercion 2 11.8% Lgtbi-phobia 1 5.9% Eviction 3 17.6% Other 3 17.6% Penitentiary system (% from 18)
Isolation 8 44.4% 3 16.7% Scatter 2 11.1% Barriers to PMM access 2 11.1% Indigence in prison 5 27.8% Withdrawal of custody due to imprisonment 3 16.7% Denial of permits and penitentiary benefits 4 22.2% Threats and / or coercion by officials 6 33.3% Torture or vexing treatment 3 16.7% Rape 1 5.6% Other 3 16.7%
The transcendence of the almost 40 daily accompaniments undertaken by Metzineres, committing to heart warmth the wellbeing of more than 220 brave women, currently participating in the project, has shown along the two years of implementation, extraordinary results, exceeding our best expectations.
Despite the broad commitment of all of us in Metzineres, the countless alliances linked to the social and solidarity economy as well as the multiple visits from around the world to get to know our approach model, the lack of funding and infrastructure endanger put at risk our Shelter Environments.
For these reasons we call on institutions, philanthropic communities, entities, companies, movements and individuals with whom we share common ideals and objectives, to show their support and solidarity, willing to activate support within networks that may guarantee the sustainability of Metzineres.
Metzineres is a collective of 250 women and gender non comforming people in multiple situations of vulnerability, 90% of us are surviving multiple violences, half of us are homeless and 70% have problems related to drugs, legal and illegal.
Beyond the risks that we live in our day to day life and the harm reduction measures that we are already adopting (COVID19 HARM REACTION guide. In Metzis we don’t want Corona) we want to highlight the complexity of our reality so it can be contemplated in the social, health and economic measures applied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We prioritize access to safe confinement, which respects our human rights, with a feminist approach, taking into account intersectionality and harm reduction. That would allow us to maintain our link with the environment, the companions and the social and health professionals we trust. Respectful of our habits and committed to our empowerment and well-being.
We want to be able to take care of ourselves, access our belongings and give continuity to our treatments, especially those of us living with mental health disorders. Those of us who are in active consumption want to reduce risks and not go through forced abstinence. Also, if we do sex work or sex for survival we want to be able to protect ourselves.
These days, measures have been deployed aimed at us that, although well-intentioned, they are not adapt to our circumstances, in some cases even retraumatizing us and violating our rights.
In order to alleviate and redirect those responses that are reproducing stigma and discrimination, we present the following recommendations:
Nothing About Us Without Us
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"Amb molts pocs diners salvem vides". Report in Vilaweb, reference media in Catalonia. [catalan]
"Metzineres: shelter and empowering women who use drugs, survivors of violence". Article in Innovative approaches in drug policies and Incarceration. [english]
