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Mayor Pilar Barreiro has this morning signed a cooperation agreement between the city of Cartagena, through the Municipal Institute of Social and Local Development Agency and Employment, with the Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Murcia and the Partnership for Community Integration Mentally Ill and the Cartagena area, apex, with a view to developing labor insertion of drug abusers and psychiatric disorders associated with chronic mental illness, preferably in the municipality of Cartagena.

The signing of the agreement has taken place in the Palace Hall and it was attended by the president of the Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Murcia, Pelegrin Luis Calero, and the president of APIC, Francisco Morata Andreo, in addition to the council Javier Herrero and Antonio Calderon.

At this time, and thanks to this collaboration, four workshops are being developed, in which 48 patients are participating.

These actions are:

Maintenance shop and gardens, Youth and Employment Center Quarry.

Monitor Workshop Leisure and playgrounds that takes place at the facilities of the Rehabilitation Unit of Cartagena.

Carpentry workshop taught at the facilities of APIC.

Silkscreen Workshop taught at the facilities of APIC.

Thanks to this agreement, amounting to 30,000 euros from Murcia Health Service (SMS), the City provides the space and infrastructure that both associations to develop its work on social integration.

The president of the Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Murcia, Luis Pelegrin, explained that this agreement is included within a larger project initiated by the Ministry of Public Administration and managed by the association.

This project consists of three phases: job training, practical activity in companies and job search, and in addition to Cartagena, is developed in Caravaca, Lorca and Murcia.

Pelegrin also has advanced through this project will create a toy library in Cartagena, which will allow patients with little ability to work your trade.

To this end, the city has lost more than a thousand square meters of land in the industrial Cabezo Beaza and the new space will be ready to go, as expected, later this year.

With this new toy library, about eight or nine patients in these associations can work in a supervised manner.

Something similar already exists in Molina de Segura, an amusement park where they work 21 mentally ill.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena