President Galmés has announced that a hundred families on the island with children between 7 and 21 years old will be able to receive this free assistance resource at home next year.
Improving the quality of life of children and young people with intellectual disabilities with behavioural support needs and their families, identifying possible triggers and modulating guidelines is the main objective of the Comprehensive Care Service for Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities with Support Needs (SAI-DIC) that the Consell de Mallorca will put into operation in early 2025.
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The Consell de Mallorca will offer a new home service for children with intellectual disabilities with behavioural support needs
‘People are the priority of this government team, especially those who live in situations of vulnerability. When one of the members of a family has different abilities and support needs, it affects coexistence and family relationships, which can become unstructured. Early intervention can prevent the person or family from becoming saturated. This free assistance resource will be a before and after in the care of children with intellectual disabilities and behavioural disorders and family welfare’, explained president Galmés.
The IMAS, through the Consell de Mallorca’s Department for People with Disabilities, will manage this service, which will be carried out at home and will start with 100 places for children from 7 to 21 years of age from all over Mallorca. It will be made up of a team of specialised qualified professionals (psychologists, occupational therapists, social educators, teachers…) who will design a specific intervention plan adapted to each case and will work in coordination and in a network with education, social services and health services involved in their daily lives.
‘The actions that will be carried out are aimed at improving the autonomy of the children, reducing the frequency and intensity of behavioural disorders, promoting their integration into their environment, preventing future institutionalisation and at the same time reinforcing, accompanying and showing families how to redirect high-intensity behaviours that occur at home,’ explained the councillor for Social Welfare, Guillermo Sánchez.
The SAI-DIC is in line with the Balearic Islands Government’s Strategic Plan for Mental Health and follows the guidelines of the Deinstitutionalisation Plan for Europe and Spain.
The president of the Consell announced the new service during a visit to the headquarters of APROSCOM in Manacor, an entity of reference for its work in favour of the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities or developmental disorders, with whom IMAS has 361 places in day centres (83), residences (32), occupational services (140), housing support (37), supervised housing (30) and a guardianship foundation (39).