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On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, commemorated every October 10, the City of Cartagena and different associations such as TP, AFAL and ÁPICES, have held a meeting to share the services and projects they carry out in the city .Present at the meeting were the vice mayor and head of the Social Services Area, Noelia Arroyo, the councilor for Social Services, Mercedes García, a social worker from PT Cartagena MM, Sara Carmona, the member of the AFAL association, and the director of Ápices Salud Mental, Pepa Hernández.On this day there is greater “visibility to the work that entities and associations in Cartagena have been carrying out for so long and that is very important for people with mental health pathologies”, explained Noelia Arroyo, who also remarked that it is “an essential service for the families, who have had to make a great effort to maintain care, through new telematic channels, during this time ”, in which normality has been affected by the coronavirus.In addition, the deputy mayor recalled that "we must avoid stigmatizing people with mental illnesses.
What is necessary is to continue working from the City Council, as we have done so far, with the support line for social action projects, the accessibility line and shortly the aid will come out for the investments in equipment that these associations need.The Government's vocation is to maintain support for projects that cover the life cycle of people with mental illness: occupational aspect, helping in training programs; accommodation, supporting sheltered flats and day centers; and accessibility, with work on public facilities, signage and adaptation to easy reading of official information, such as the development of the Municipal Accessibility Plan.
During this year it has subsidized different projects to Mental Health entities:Improved accessibility for people with Alzheimer's and other pathologiesSocio-health intervention for people with Alzheimer's and other pathologies and their families and caregiversHospital mediation service for people with mental disorders at risk of social exclusionAccessible classroom equipment and adaptation to the Covid19 situationSocial action project for people with personality disorders and their familiesSocial and labor accessibility project for people with personality disorderENTITIES AND ASSOCIATIONSTP CARTAGENA MMTP Cartagena MM is an association dedicated to the help and investigation of Personality Disorders in Cartagena, Comarca and Mar Menor.
It was created in 2007, with the aim of assisting and supporting people with problems derived from Personality Disorders (PD) and their families.Sara Carmona, a social worker at PT Cartagena, explained that they offer different services, "among them, psychoeducation, psychological therapy, workshops on labor orientation social skills."In addition, he explained that “people with personality disorders live with certain instability, lack of impulse control and frustration.
Therefore, it is very difficult for them to have a normalized life, within what we understand as culturally normalized life, and in the association we work precisely so that they lead a life as normal, as much as possible, with the necessary help ”.AFAL CARTAGENA"Alzheimer's is also a mental health problem, although there are times when it is not classified as such," said Conchi Martínez, member of the AFAL association, who also recalled some of the association's services: "cognitive, psychologist, physiotherapeutic therapies , activities with social educators ...
"Unfortunately, the disease still has no solution, but the association makes it easier for people to live differently and slow down, and it also offers support to the family.
In addition, "there is an agreement now with social security to refer new cases and try to encourage the detection of the disease as soon as possible, in addition to ensuring that the quality of life is the best possible", Martínez pointed out.AFAL Cartagena annually serves about 200 users, and their respective families if necessary.MENTAL HEALTH APICES CARTAGENAÁPICES works with users with mental health problems, "we have a day center in which we carry out occupational activities, cognitive stimulation, sports activities, and the promotion of leisure and personal initiative.
We also have a residential resource, a sheltered home, of eight people who live with us and we provide care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, "said Pepa Hernández, director of Ápices Salud Mental.There is also work on family support in the face of difficulties that may arise in the management of mental health problems and supporting schools to work with children, in addition to a hospital mediation service in which users are accompanied who, After being admitted to the psychiatry ward, they do not have family resources to enter the mental health network.Currently, there are 62 day center places, 10 private places and 8 in housing, a total of 80 people who are cared for directly in APICES.
"Mental health diseases are becoming more and more visible, and in addition, society is more aware of the type of rehabilitation and work that must be done with these people," Hernández stated.The director of the center wanted to highlight several issues on the occasion of World Mental Health Day: "In the public health system in Spain there are four times fewer psychologists than in the rest of the countries of the European community.
Mental health problems have more than an 80% unemployment rate.
In education, there is no inclusive system that meets the needs of each user and socially the rejection that the unknown often generates is evident.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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