Our services – Education and preventive work
Counseling
The FGM/C Coordination Centre offers free counseling by phone via an Austria-wide info phone. Women affected by or at risk of FGM/C, as well as professionals, experts or interested persons who need support or information on the topic of FGM/C, can contact this service. hfgh
- Are you looking for more information about FGM/C?
- Do you have medical problems?
- Do you need help?
The info phone can be reached Monday to Thursday from 9 am – 4 pm and Friday from 9 am – 12 am under the following number:
In addition to the info phone, the FGM/C Coordination Centre also offers counseling directly on site.
In Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz and Salzburg there are free counselling centres for people affected by violence and FGM/C and those at risk, providing information, support and confidential individual counselling in medical, psychological and legal matters.
Regional counseling centres
Counseling centre Vienna
Frauengesundheitszentrum FEM Süd
Wiener Gesundheitsverbund – Klinik Favoriten
Kundratstraße 3
1100 Wien
Phone: +43 1 60191 5201
Mail: kfn.femsued@gesundheitsverbund.at
Web: www.femsued.at
Counseling centre Styria
Austrian Red Cross
Regional Office Styria
Merangasse 26 (Entrance Leonhardstraße 23)
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 50 1445 10176
Mail: womencare@st.roteskreuz.at
Language: German, English, Arabic, 3 ghanian languages
Counseling centre Tyrol
Austrian Red Cross
Landesverband Tirol
Heiliggeiststraße 19
6020 Innsbruck
Language: German, English, Arabic, Somali, Spanish
Counseling centre Salzburg
FrauenGesundheitsZentrum Salzburg
Mag.a Aline Halhuber-Ahlmann
Alpenstrasse 48/1
5020 Salzburg
Phone: +43 662 442255
Mail: a.halhuber@fgz-salzburg.at
Web: www.fgz-salzburg.at
Language: German, English
Counseling centre upper Austria
Linzer Frauengesundheitszentrum
Mag.a Friederike Widholm
Kaplanhofstraße 1
4020 Linz
Phone: +43 664 5648304
Mail: office@fgz-linz.at
Web: www.fgz-linz.at
Language: German, English
Counseling centre Vienna
MEN Männergesundheitszentrum
Wiener Gesundheitsverbund – Klinik Favoriten
Kundratstraße 3
1100 Wien
Phone: +43 1 60191 5454
Mail: kfn.men@gesundheitsverbund.at
Web: www.men-center.at
Language: German, English
Training for professionals
Raising awareness with experts from relevant professional groups is particularly important in order to provide the best possible support to affected women and potentially affected girls.
The FGM/C Coordination Centre therefore offers training for professionals who may come into contact with those at risk of or affected by FGM/C in their daily work (e.g. members of health and social professions, educators …). The training courses focus on providing knowledge and raising awareness on the topic of FGM/C, as well as recommendations for dealing with (potentially) affected women in a culture-sensitive approach.
Specific topics of the trainings include:
- Definitions and forms of FGM/C
- Prevalence and incidence of FGM/C
- consequences and complications
- other forms of tradition-related violence
- legal situation
- recommendations for action
If you are interested in a training course, please contact us via the info phone +43 1 267 7 267 or via
mail: info@fgm-koordinationsstelle.at
Workshops with communities
The cooperation with people from affected communities is essential. The coordination centre therefore offers workshops for women and girls who are affected or at risk, as well as for men from communities with a high incidence of FGM/C in their countries of origin. These workshops aim to prevent FGM/C through targeted education, awareness-raising and the removal of taboos by providing information.
In addition, multiplicators are trained who then carry these messages further into the communities.
Are you interested in a workshop? Contact us via our info phone +43 1 267 7 267 or via
mail: info@fgm-koordinationsstelle.at
Networking
A major goal of the FGM/C Coordination Centre is the connecting of all actors in the context of FGM/C throughout Austria. Contacts to stakeholders who are actively engaged against FGM/C shall be established and expanded with the aim of having regional contact persons all across Austria.
- Is your organisation working to prevent FGM/C in Austria?
- Are you a professional who specialises in dealing with women affected by FGM/C?
Contact us via the info phone +43 1 267 7 267 or via mail: info@fgm-koordinationsstelle.at
