The Accompaniment Program for Social Inclusion (PAIN) developed by the Department of Social Welfare of the City of Totana has led, during the first six months of the year, the attention of 37 residents of the town in a situation of serious risk or social exclusion, According to sources from this municipal department.
These people usually lack family and social support given their serious personal problems, such as drug addiction, mental illness, ex-prisoners, prostitution, etc.
In this sense, they hardly participate or are incorporated into normalized resources of the community (labor, health, education) given their lack of knowledge and social and personal skills for it, which causes a greater deterioration of health and social isolation .
The program, through the joint approach with the user of insertion itineraries and the use of socio-educational techniques, tries to compensate for this lack of natural support through a philosophy of intervention based on the proximity and accessibility of the user.
The most outstanding interventions that the program has developed-carried out fundamentally by a social worker and a social educator-have focused on the resolution of the most urgent needs of these people, the strengthening of their links and social networks, and their accompaniment. physical access and positive use of environmental resources.
For all these reasons, it should be noted that the Accompaniment for Social Inclusion program has been constituted as a reference and operational resource in the development of actions against social exclusion suffered by various people and groups of the locality.
