The city of Murcia will host next October a meeting in which will be present professionals from different parts of Spain.
Experts in social emergencies will share the work done in other communities on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the SEMAS of the municipality of Murcia.
"Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the implementation of this service, from the Department of Social Rights we have organized a Conference on" Care of the social emergency from Social Services that will take place in the Hall of Moneo Building on 5 and October 6 next, "said Conchita Ruiz.
These seminars are aimed mainly at professionals of social intervention and emergencies, institutional leaders related to these matters, as well as students of related disciplines.
They provide a forum in which participants, from different points of national or international geography, can:
- Address the reality and treatment of social emergency from Social Services.
- To know some of the resources of attention to the social emergencies that exist in our country (in large and medium municipalities, as well as of small size).
-To analyze the major emergencies arising from catastrophe situations, dealing with some of those that have occurred recently in Spain, with serious consequences for the affected populations.
-Raise awareness, especially of technical and political leaders at the local level, about the need for mechanisms and mechanisms to respond to social emergencies that may occur in their respective localities.
SEMAS activity
From the Social Services of the City of Murcia took the step in 1997 to create the SEMAS (Mobile Emergency and Social Care Service), with some objectives such as: street intervention with homeless people in serious condition Social exclusion, and care of all kinds of social emergencies, (anywhere in the municipality 24 hours a day, 365 days a year).
The team is currently made up of an Area Officer, 4 social workers and 3 local police officers (with the support of a legal adviser as well as two volunteers).
Their actions are directed at the most vulnerable sectors: marginalized, under-aged (in need of protection or used for begging), disoriented, abandoned elderly people, drug addicts, non-institutionalized psychiatric patients, families in crisis situations affected by catastrophes (fires, floods) others.
In the same way it coordinates and collaborates with the other Municipal Social Services, or other Administrations, with the entities of the Third Sector.
Health Services.
Local Police, National Police Corps, etc.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia