The coordination meeting of the Accompaniment Program for Social Inclusion of the Social Services Centers of the Águilas, Fuente Álamo and Totana Town Councils has recently taken place at the Mazarrón City Council.
To her, the social workers of the program of the different Town halls, and the Coordinator of the Counseling of Family and Equality of Opportunities, Carmen Alburquerque attended.
The mayor-President of the City of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez Hernández and the Delegate Councilor for Social Policy, Laura Ortiz Vera, have received the various accompanying professionals in the City of Mazarrón and have welcomed the municipality.
This program seeks to respond to the particularities and complexity of the needs of people in situations of high vulnerability and serious social exclusion, understood as the lack of material and economic resources, which is linked to a vital process of frustration, resignation and Discriminations that break with the personal and family support to be able to face habitual situations.
Access to the program is done through the different UTS or other Social Services programs, once they pass the initial assessment tool for situations of social exclusion and the criteria of suitability of the PAIN, as a device to encourage their recovery and / or paralyze the Process of social exclusion.
The professionals of the PAIN will review the proposal on the real suitability and the possibilities of the program to adequately attend to the person and they take part in intensive processes of accompaniment that favor the change, through the recovery of the person (self-esteem, autonomy, Social support networks) and attention to the various deficits and factors of discrimination that have been accumulating and provoking situations of social exclusion (economic, housing, education, training, judicial, health ...), from the methodology of social support.
Social support, as a benefit, involves a continuous intervention, carried out by a professional figure, within the framework of an aid relationship requested or voluntarily accepted and with goals of improvement and personal growth.
Between the professional and the person a mutual commitment is promoted based on the availability of the parties to carry out the actions agreed upon from autonomous decisions.
Among other topics, this meeting has dealt with cases of follow-up of the various municipalities, which are accompanied.
In the case of the Municipality of Mazarrón, there are about forty cases, which are carried within the Accompaniment Program of the Social Services Center of the Department of Social Policy.
The program is composed of two professionals who work from Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., in the Social Services Center of Mazarrón, and Puerto de Mazarrón.
The Accompaniment Program is subsidized by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, within the actions in the area of ​​primary care social services.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón