The councilman of Social Welfare, Juan Carrion, participated in the Christmas party for students and teachers of municipal Psychosocial Support Services have been held this morning.
In addition, the mayor has delivered a box of Christmas sweets and traditional users of this service, who wished them a happy holiday.
Users of this service during this week celebrated the arrival of Christmas with the conduct of various workshops, such as the completion of a nativity scene with the pottery workshop.
Psychosocial Support Service, which is a resource for municipal, whose offices are located on the second floor of the new Early Childhood Center, in the Tyrol area Camilleri, attends daily to the needs of a total of 15 people with mental illness.
With the launch of this service, we try to encourage the skills and abilities of users in order to work on improving personal and social autonomy, so be gaining independence from caregivers and families to facilitate their participation in social life standard, explained the acting mayor, Juan Carrión, who said, "that is an integral activity that serves more than fifteen users in addition to the specific actions carried out with patients found in their homes. "
This resource began operation six years ago, when the city of Totana in collaboration with the Association of Families of People with Mental Illness, began to support activities and stimulation with a group of people affected, he recalled Carrion Tudela, who commented that relations that the city of Totana has with this entity "are very fluid," and each year is concluding a cooperation agreement to carry out complementary activities undertaken by the service.
From then until now it has come a "long way", and now, in the words of Juan Carrión, "we can say that Totana is one of the few municipalities that have a service that specifically addresses the needs in the psychosocial field of people with mental illness. "
In this service, currently open Monday to Friday and continuously, about 15 people, including different activities such as cognitive stimulation, physical activity, health education, occupational activities, social skills and daily life activities .
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