Portal de Murcia
www.portaldemurcia.com
The City allocates 15 million euros to ensure the welfare of elderly, disabled, families and children, in addition to combating social exclusion and gender violence.
The quality and quantity of social programs are a hallmark of the policies of the City.
More than half of those over 65 who reside in the municipality uses the network of community centers.
Last year, 31,000 families were served by the appointment service manager and resources to derive benefits from the Department of Social Welfare and Health.
Financial support of urgent necessity, home help for the elderly, support for education and housing and dining homeless are more budget resources to absorb.
Murcia 52,950 this year to benefit the programs promoted by the area of ​​Social Welfare, which works to ensure that everyone has access to resources and services they need to ensure their welfare.
To these should be added the 31,000 families were served last year in the service manager appointment plaintiffs refer to the resources and services of the Department of Social Welfare and Health.
This is some of the data released this morning by the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and responsible for the social area, Maria del Carmen Pelegrin.
Overall, aid and benefits provided by the City, along with the free services are provided from this area in 2012 added a budget of 15 million euros, are geared to children, elderly, disabled, families and combating gender violence and social exclusion.
The City does not work alone.
To weave an effective and efficient health care network, the Social Welfare Department maintains more than 70 existing collaboration agreements, in addition to 40 other associations who attend public calls for grants to work in the field of social services.
Only in 2011, the Governing Board adopted 226 resolutions, 70 of them related to childhood and adolescence.
To do this, the city of Murcia, through the Department of Social Welfare and Health, directed María del Carmen Pelegrin has a network of social services capable of responding to the demands of its citizens.
The social service centers located throughout the city and specialized offices, along with community action centers in neighborhoods preferred care, Day Care centers and battered women host to form the basis of the network, which is complemented by women's centers and the largest covering all neighborhoods and districts.
Precisely the group are the largest and most beneficiaries receive higher budget.
Of the more than 61,000 residents in the town to have an age of 65 or more, 35,000 are members of the network of 72 community centers.
The biggest feature full support of the City Council, resulting in the following:
- 150 dependent elderly receive more and better care centers of Barriomar day stays, and Cabezo Beniaján Torres
- 1915 households are users of home help service right now, which may give a figure of 4,000 users.
- Every day, 2,700 high telecare households currently.
- 279 dependent elderly and meals on wheels.
- 92 recipients of respite care program.
- Of the 35,000 partners senior centers, 1,700 are members of the 90 courses gerontogimnasia, 1,300 are treated by physiotherapists in the 40 existing queries and 2,500 participants in over 70 training courses offered.
- More than 6,000 higher this year will take advantage of the 120 scheduled cultural trips in and out of the region.
The measures to combat domestic violence and provide assistance to victims receive constant attention.
In the first six months of this year, the municipal services to 258 women attended, while 5 mothers with 5 children have been staying at this time in the City shelters.
Collaboration with disabled people is articulated through the Bureau of Disability, composed of 52 associations, through agreements and grants approved partnerships with the Department of Health and Social Welfare has collaboration agreements.
At this time, from the Heritage Service, is studying the possibility of ceding land for the construction of corporate headquarters for Afacmur, Assido and Renal Association
Also, is operational bonotaxi service, which aims to provide a resource to facilitate movement to all people, suffering from a physical disability, with mobility problems to use public transport buses.
173 of these grants have been approved this year.
Catering for families, excluded and reconciliation of work and family reach 600 beneficiaries of the training program and emergency assistance for social and urban transport.
Moreover, aid and social services account for more than 6,200 beneficiaries.
Of these, up to 1,500 families this year will receive financial support municipal urgent need worth over 1 million euros and about 400 people will have the pharmaceutical care delivery.
In this area, 75 families will attend training courses and 45 people a day have access to social dining and accommodation within the City programs aimed at social inclusion, which added about 16,000 annual overnight stays and meals.
In the first half of 2012, more than 400 interventions in the area of ​​bystanders, addicts, children and domestic violence conducted by the SEMAS.
Working with children and adolescents has nearly 15,000 beneficiaries, either through support aid to education, bonobuses to participate in activities, educational support, summer schools, cyber classrooms or vocational classes.
In this case, highlights the work of 19 social workers dedicated to the control of truancy with 880 children.
The Urban Project, the Neighborhood of the Holy Spirit, where in addition to the infrastructure over 200 children, youth and adults have participated in this year's activities.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies