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The Department of Social Rights, which has invested more than 1.1 million euros for two years, has 45 seats a day of social dining and accommodation in the shelter for homeless people who go to municipal social services.
The average stay in the Reception Center during the year 2016 was 83 days per person, with 1,448 the total of people attended
Last September 1 entered into force the new contract between the City of Murcia, through the Department of Social Rights, directed by Conchita Ruiz, and the Jesus Abandoned Foundation for the provision of temporary accommodation services in the Reception Center , social canteen and socio-health care for the homeless (passers-by and homeless).
This gives continuity to the collaboration that both entities maintain in the attention and coverage of the basic social needs of the most disadvantaged people.
The contract, which runs until August 2019, with the possibility of extending it for another two years, has an economic allocation of 1,127,850 euros for the total of two years, at a rate of 563,925 euros per year, with which they are financed a total of 45 places a day for social housing and accommodation in the shelter for homeless people who come to municipal social services or who are referred to this resource in situations of social emergency.
Of these 45 places, three are exceptionally welcoming in order to be able to deal with emergency situations that may occur during non-regular hours and that they are transferred to the Reception Center for emergency services, usually the SEMAS, but also the Local Police.
The main novelty that incorporates this contract in relation to the one that has been in force before, is the creation of 10 daily places of social and health care, to guarantee the continued attention of those homeless people who require a continuous health care and a care that their own conditions of life do not make it possible to ensure that a substantial improvement in the care of a particularly vulnerable population is left under the care of the appropriate professionals to guarantee the effectiveness of the health intervention.
The staff provided for the provision of this service is 3 social workers, one of them with coordination functions, 3 nursing graduates.
3 nursing auxiliaries and a maintenance person, this endowment being able to be reinforced with the services of psychiatry, podiatry, gynecology, dentistry or other sanitary specialties with which the Foundation counts on voluntary collaborations.
This new service represents an estimated increase of the contract compared to the previous one of 100,000 euros per year.
The places for the Reception Center are usually granted for a period of 7 days, although, it is usual for them to be extended by the municipal technicians if there is no other adequate resource and it is still necessary to use this resource or if the person joins any project of social insertion, either managed by the Jesus Abandoned Foundation itself or by other entities.
Thus, the City Council maintains close coordination through the Network for Social Inclusion, which includes, in addition to the City Council and the Jesus Abandoned Foundation, Technicians of the Regional Administration, Red Cross, CEPAIM Foundation, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Cáritas, Columbares Association, RAIS Foundation and the EAPN Region of Murcia, representing the rest of organizations in the third sector.
1,448 people attended in 2016
The average occupancy in the Short and Medium Stay Center during the year 2016 was 83 days per person, with the total number of people attended in this resource 1,448 different, of which 143 were women and the rest men.
The mean ages ranged from 41 to 50 years and 65.37% of these users were foreign population.
Thus, the percentage of occupation during the whole year reached 94.51%.
As for the social dining room, served during 2016 to 3,243 people, offering a total of 186,600 services, of which 19,565 were snacks.
These services, along with the usual long-term dining room, totaled 301,459 food services during the past year.
Most of these people have broken their personal, family, work and social ties, finding themselves in the most extreme situation of social exclusion and, therefore, require an intervention that must begin by covering the most essential issues, in order that they begin to recover basic levels of health and self-esteem that allow them to reorient their lives.
In this sense, this is nothing more than a first step to be able to join a project of social insertion, managed by technicians of both entities.
It should be remembered that the Jesús Abandoned Foundation, an entity with deep roots in the municipality and an accredited experience in the care of the homeless, has perfectly adequate facilities for the provision of contracted services, as well as the personnel required, but also directly provides other services that complement the current contract and which also benefit the cases derived by municipal social services.
Thus, the collaboration between both entities extends beyond the formal terms established in the contract, so the data referred to overnight stays or dining services acquire a relative value, while the 45 places are part of the 145 available.
In this way, if the City Council does not cover them directly, they would be directly available to the Foundation, since many people go directly to their facilities, in the same way that the Foundation allows additional places to the 45 originally planned when the situation requires it, taking into account the logic that no person is left without service, regardless of the modality of access to the resource.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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