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Murcia City Council continues to work with associations and Astrapace Fundown to develop projects that improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families.

For Astrapace (Association for the Treatment of People with Cerebral Palsy), is promoting the program 'activities with families to reconcile work and family life'.

The activities to be addressed from this service are derived in the family have a member with disabilities.

These needs are changing depending on the time course in which families are, child or adult school.

It caters to individual families and the intervention is designed to perform.

It provides families with information, emotional support, training, counseling, respite care, leisure time, etc..

Also collaborating on the project 'Leisure Club', an open space where various activities of a fun and educational.

This initiative is carried out according to the demand of the families and the users themselves, due to the limited supply of leisure and recreational activities that are available to this group.

It is a leisure service tailored to each individual's personal characteristics.

The City is working with Fundown (Down Syndrome Foundation of the Region of Murcia), to develop the project of 'Leisure inclusive for people with mental disabilities', which is to provide training to the full development of the person with learning disabilities through of skills and strategies for different areas of life: work, personal, family and social, among others, while encouraging active participation in the society in which it is inserted like any other citizen / a.

The goal is that people with mental disabilities to enjoy entertainment on their own.

Involving 50 people, aged between 16 and 53 years.

You will also develop the project 'Life School: Shared Housing Program' which is based on the coexistence of people with intellectual disabilities and students of the University of Murcia, on equal terms, to allow training for independent living of people with intellectual disabilities in all contexts in which they operate, ie, family, educational, occupational and relational.

12 people with disabilities participate and 7 students.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia