The good understanding and understanding that the PP has managed to achieve with Vox since the start of Natalia Chueca’s mandate is bearing fruit month after month in Zaragoza. This city council is one of those in which the greatest number of agreements have been reached by both to implement measures never before seen in the city. The last concerns a pilot project to support families with children with mental health problems.
Vox proposed to the PP, as reported by the Minister of Social Policies, Marian Orosdevelop a support plan for families who were responsible for a member suffering from mental health problems. and the popular They did not hesitate to take up the gauntlet.
Zaragoza and the mental health of young people
Thanks to this collaboration, Zaragoza families in this situation will benefit from an initiative aimed at offering leisure activities to children aged between 12 and 25 years oldand which allow parents to reconcile their education, as well as to receive help from specialists to manage the family crises that usually arise in these situations.
This project is part of Zaragoza City Council’s commitment to strengthening family support policies and, in particular, with engagement in mental health care, in order to provide them with tools for rest and improve awareness of all members of the family clan. A strategy in line with the Government of Aragon, led by Jorge Azcon, which created the first Directorate of Mental Health in the community during this legislature, endowed in the first budgets with 16 million euros.
The new psychoeducational support service has been named More accompaniedwhich was presented this Tuesday by the Minister of Social Policies, Marian Orosand the advisor Eva Torresof the Vox group, which will negotiate that this position be expanded in future budgets “so that it lasts for many years”.
Torres recalled that “one in seven young people between 10 and 19 years old suffers from some type of mental disorder, According to the WHO. “59.3% of young Spaniards between 15 and 29 years old – he added – admit to suffering from mental health problems, according to data from the 2023 Youth Barometer. Suicide is the third cause of death among people between 15 and 29 years old. 23.8% have already had suicidal thoughts, 11.3% think about suicide with some frequency and 13.8% do it very frequently or continuously.
“More accompanied”
This is a pilot project which will be developed during 25 weeks (between December 2024 and May 2025), with the aim of serving as a learning experience to promote a stable service in the future.
THE Adcara Foundation will be in charge of the activities, after winning the contract which was the subject of a call for tenders and for which several entities presented themselves. The price budget is 12,485 euros.
The project aims to families residing in Zaragoza who have children with mental health problems and who have received psychiatric care in the past year. It will be developed with technical personnel specialized in the psychosocial field: graduates in psychology, social education, social work or equivalent. The evaluation and orientation of users will be done from the Youth Health Zone of the Town Hall.
As Orós explains, the project methodology emphasizes “ the center for owning a family”, provide social solutions complementary to medical and health treatments, which facilitate the generation of positive changes in their lifestyle.
For this, they will propose “support groups and self-help workshops”, of two hours per week in both cases; but also cultural, sporting and leisure activities for children and their families, in this case lasting four hours and weekly.
