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From the PP we consider a priority and necessary the request of the Association PA.DI.SI.TO, that Totana has a Residence for People with Intellectual Disability.

The PP requests that the work and procedures be initiated by the City Council together with the PA.DI.SI.TO Association and the Autonomous Community for the start-up and management of a Residence for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in our municipality.

A few days ago the Popular Party received from the PA.DI.SI.TO Association, which has been working for many years to improve the quality of life of residents with Intellectual Disability and their families, a letter indicating the need to that unanimously from the Municipal Corporation work to create a residential service in Totana for the group of people with intellectual disabilities.

Totana has a wide coverage in terms of day centers, managed by the City Council of this town and intended for the group of people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness, and which serves both users in our town and localities neighbors.

The association PA.DI.SI.TO, has been working to improve the quality of life of the residents with this disability since 1993 and from the different studies that have been carried out, it is deduced the need, which is increasing quantitatively and qualitatively, to give residential service to this population (collective of people with disabilities in our locality and surroundings) due to the concatenation of a series of circumstances such as;

aging and / or death of parents, relatives or guardians who habitually practice as caregivers of the person with intellectual disability, particular family situations that prevent the continued care of the person with intellectual disability, a need to offer an independent and autonomous life with the necessary support for users, outside their traditional family nucleus, thus promoting equal opportunities, those users who are forced to occupy a place of residence have to leave their hometown, in this case Totana, with all that this entails: getting away from family members, friends and colleagues, starting a new life in a foreign and unknown context, changes in routines and habits that can negatively affect their physical, cognitive and social functioning, etc ...

If in addition to all the above we take into account that our city is framed within the region of the Guadalentín low, within which besides Totana, we find the cities of Alhama de Murcia, Librilla, Mazarrón and Aledo.

And taking into account that none of these population areas today has a residential service for the group of people with intellectual disabilities, we understand as a result an unavoidable political and social responsibility to provide the necessary means and resources to cover this palpable demand of said group.

It is important that together with PA.DI.SI.TO, association that gathers the necessary experience and sufficient qualities to start the implementation of the necessary works to obtain the final objective, a Residence for people with Intellectual Disability in our municipality, the The City Council must initiate the necessary work in order to meet the needs of this group and we start working with the Autonomous Community in order to establish a residence in Totana that responds to the needs of these people and their families

Totana, because of its geographical location, its population size, and the different resources and public infrastructures available, can be a good reference in terms of residential services of the group of people with intellectual disabilities, promoting this shape our town as a city of services and social commitment within the regional framework.

Therefore and taking into account that for this municipal group it is a priority and necessary demand to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families, we have proposed to the plenary session on December 28 that the appropriate procedures be initiated. for the start-up and management of a Residence for people with Intellectual Disability in Totana, counting for this purpose on the experience of the Association PA.DI.SI.TO and with the Autonomous Community.

Source: PP Totana