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The counselor of Family and Equality of Opportunities, Violante Tomás, together with the president of the Association for the integral attention of people with Down syndrome of Cartagena and their families (Asido Cartagena), Juan Pedro Sánchez, visited the day center of the association, and stressed that the Autonomous Community, through the Murcia Institute of Social Action (IMAS), subsidizes the services to 56 people with intellectual disabilities of this association.
Specifically, it is financed with 587,307 euros its center for early childhood development and care, a rotating home and the day center of the association, where the IMAS has contracted 47 places, 10 of them newly created.
The day center improves the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities who participate in the activities of the occupational service, which provides comprehensive habilitative care.
Violante Tomás highlighted the "enormous merit" of the work carried out by these people in the occupational workshops.
In addition, he acknowledged that "we have many common objectives with associations of people with Down syndrome."
By financing concerted places, the Community works to facilitate the social integration of people with intellectual disabilities, since "we want to contribute to mentalizing society of the need for inclusion and we fight for the promotion, promotion and creation of employment," he added. .
For its part, the rotating home of Asido Cartagena is a service to improve autonomy, whose primary goal is equal opportunities, non-discrimination and universal accessibility for people with disabilities, through the development of a life project that favors the learning of personal and professional skills for their social and labor insertion.
"Since Asido is offering a family orientation and showing the skills and advantages of an independent life," said the counselor, who acknowledged "the many achievements" of this group, as the right to exercise control of their own lives.
Rotating housing, which will have 30 users this year, is aimed at achieving an autonomous life of the person, at home and on the move, and in it a group of adults learn the tasks of home and routine skills.
With the project 'I want to live my own life' they prepare to live as independent and integrated in their environment.
Regarding early care services for children under six years of age with Down syndrome and their families, they are fundamental for the later development of the child.
Currently, they are provided in nursery schools, hospitals and homes and, following the agreed diagnosis of the minor, the case is referred to the corresponding department, in order to begin the treatment as soon as possible.
Asido Cartagena is a non-profit organization that was born in 1993 and offers early care, an occupational center, a day center, employment and support services for families, psycho-pedagogical and school support, as well as leisure and free time programs.
The entity is integrated, along with other 25 associations, in Plena Inclusión Region of Murcia, the federation of associations of families of people with intellectual disabilities.
Source: CARM
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