The mayor, Juan José Cánovas, and the vice president and counselor for Women, Equality, LGTBI, Families and Social Policy, Isabel Franco, have signed a collaboration agreement, amounting to 126,214 euros, for the maintenance of the Early Care Center of the municipality , which until July 30 of this year served 243 children aged 0 to 6 years with temporary or permanent therapeutic needs.
Under this institutional agreement, signed electronically, the Ministry provides 97,610 euros and the consistory 28,604 euros.
One hundred percent of the subsidy goes to pay the payroll of the six center workers (a social worker, two physiotherapists, two psychologists and a speech therapist).
Children attending the Totana Early Care Center receive physical therapy, individual speech therapy and in small groups cognitive stimulation, hydrotherapy and psychomotor classes;
and its schedule is from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., respectively.
As they explained, during the year 2018 a total of 289 people were treated, of which 180 received treatment and 109 were followed up or evaluated in this area.
This service was implemented in 1992 and is one of the most specialized social services financed by the Autonomous Community, where more than a thousand users have passed.
The Child Development and Early Care Center of Totana is a municipal public service dependent on the City Council and co-financed by the Regional Administration;
attended by children who have any type of alteration in their development or biological or social risk, and receive treatment, stimulation and advice within a comprehensive and multidisciplinary model.
The technicians work on the prevention and development of the potential of each child, facilitating their integration, personal autonomy and personal well-being, through programs of physiotherapy, psychomotor skills, speech therapy or language stimulation, cognitive and multisensory stimulation.
Among the objectives of the service are those of reducing the effects of a deficiency or deficit on the overall set of its development, optimizing as far as possible the course of its growth, addressing and meeting its needs and demands of the family and its environment and consider the user as an active subject of the intervention.
In addition, the visit of the Minister of Women, Equality, LGTBI, Families and Social Policy, where she was also accompanied by the Councilor for Social Welfare, Javier Baños, served to address other issues in this area of ​​management that affect this department of the Executive regional, among those who highlighted immigration and other issues related to the third sector.
