Centros Hombres Por una Vida sin Violencia — Chile's High-Volume, Largely Unevaluated Perpetrator-Counselling Network

'Hombres Por una Vida sin Violencia' is a network of re-education centres run by Chile's Servicio Nacional de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género (SernamEG), created in 2012 to work with men who exercise violence against a female partner or ex-partner. As of the mid-2020s the network comprises 15 centres across the country, which men join either on their own initiative or by court referral from family courts and prosecutors, entering a multi-phase process of assessment, therapeutic engagement, group intervention and a year of follow-up.
Reporting on the programme states that more than 5,000 men have enrolled nationally, but that only around 9% complete it successfully; barriers cited include difficulty reaching centres and high attrition through the multi-phase process. A separate academic review of Latin American perpetrator programmes singles out the Chilean model's lack of a formal effectiveness evaluation as a notable defect, noting that practitioners themselves report resource and coordination constraints limiting the programme's reach.
This entry is included as an honest, evidence-based cautionary case rather than a proven success: SernamEG has built a large, institutionalised, gender-mainstreamed national infrastructure with one genuine strength — structured coordination with women's victim-support centres for feedback during a man's participation — but public evidence indicates the programme has neither been rigorously evaluated for effectiveness nor come close to retaining most of the men who enter it.

Read the full analysis: https://enlinea.santotomas.cl/actualidad-institucional/vinculacion-con-el-medio/centros-de-hombres-una-herramienta-para-combatir-la-violencia-de-genero/83616/