The Mayor of Dénia, Vicent GrimaltAnd the Councilor for Social Welfare, Melani Ivars, accompanied by personnel from the transition to adult life program of the Prevention and Intervention Service with families of the Municipal Social Services of the Dénia City Council, have visited the new floor conditioned for the insertion of young people in situations of social vulnerability.
The apartment, located on Calle Hermanos Gavilà Ferrer, is the place where a training activity is carried out linked to giving young people between 18 and 25 the necessary tools to independently develop the transition to adult life. The young people who access this program, which was launched on December 1, 2022, accept that "the social services provide support in the home and supervise their day-to-day life", according to the councilor, they are young people who, past adolescence, "they need accompaniment to redirect them towards their future". The program, as the responsible workers and the mayor herself comment, is intended for "families with whom work has already been done" and young people who were sheltered by protection and intervention measures when they were minors.
The house -equipped with three bedrooms, a bathroom, living room, kitchen and balcony- is designed for the young participants of the program to carry out weekly socio-educational activities focused on developing skills in economic and domestic administration and job placement through the work of professionals of Education and Social Work. For this, the social services cover their basic needs at an educational, economic, health and social level so that they can focus on acquiring the basic skills to be able to become emancipated and live independently, with their own resources. The program is temporary, so the young people reside in the house for between half a year and one year; time that “gives them the autonomy to become independent tomorrow”, as Ivars explains.
From Social Services they comment that access to housing is the first step for the socio-educational training of these young people in a street situation or at risk of being so, or who are in inadequate, insecure or unstable accommodation, without a family support network or social and without personal or financial resources; that is why they are offered decent accommodation.
New sheltered housing
The Aprosdeco association of care for people with intellectual functional diversity has today presented the third supervised home that it will manage in the city of Dénia.
The new home is aimed at the care of men and women over 18 years of age, with intellectual disabilities, from Dénia and the region, with the aim of responding to the personal, family and social needs of users and their families and promoting in people with intellectual disabilities personal independence, the ability to choose and make decisions in order to progressively increase the ability to self-manage their own lives.
The Dénia City Council ceded two adjoining properties to Aprosdeco in March 2019 that the association has converted into a single home with sufficient dimensions to guarantee optimal habitability conditions for the coexistence of 7 people with intellectual disabilities.
The new renovated house has a total area of 172,10 square meters and has an open kitchen, living-dining room, three accessible bathrooms, seven accessible individual bedrooms, two balconies facing the street and a gallery.
The ONCE Foundation has covered 50% of the total amount of the reform and remodeling of the two houses ceded by the city council. For the equipment of furniture and household items, Aprosdeco has had the collaboration of Charity Jávea, Rotary Club Dénia, Álex Ringrose, Help of Marina Alta and Lions International.
The president of Aprosdeco, Ana Vadillo, has thanked the Dénia town hall, the media and the collaborating associations for their involvement and support; while she has demanded more homes due to the high demand that exists for them. In response, Grimalt has assured that they will try to "look for all the possibilities that there are to give up homes", highlighting the commitment of the consistory with "the necessary work" of the association.
For young people like Teresa, the minor abused by Monica Oltra's husband under the silence of Social Services? The same one from whom the Social Services have now taken custody of her children?? Is that the "help" that you can offer to young people in situations of serious vulnerability? Horror.