VALENCIA, 13 ( EUROPA PRESS)
The Minister of Justice and Social Welfare, Jorge Cabré, signed Tuesday with the rector of the University of Valencia, Esteban Morcillo, the Convention of keeping the Centre Universitari de diagnosis i Atenció Primerenca-CUDAT, by which the Generalitat Valenciana intended 349.991 euros this year to this Center responsible for health care and preventive treatment of children under the age of 3 years with problems of development or risk of suffering.
This Centre, that was born in 2006 as a result of the collaboration between the Ministry of Justice and Social Welfare and the Universitat de València, currently serves more than one hundred children. Of the total of seats, the Generalitat has concerted 70.
The director of the Centre, Francisco Alcantud, explained that this Center treats children with all kinds of pathologies. A first group with children with diseases of good evolution, as children with low birthweight, while the second group, most abundant, consists it of children with autism, and they are up to 4 years, when they arise to education.
The Center addresses the needs of children who have disorders in their development or are at risk of suffering them from a holistic point of view, whereas bio-psycho-social aspects to leverage the ability of development and well-being, enabling their integration into the family environment, school and social, as well as their personal autonomy in outpatient,.
Thereon, explained that when he communicates to a family that the child has OCD suffers “a significant emotional shock” that even “many times desestructura coexistence”. For this reason, the modern early care also includes family care.
The CUDAP activities orchestrate through five core programs that include physiotherapy, speech therapy, cognitive development, support and family counselling, and awareness of the environment of the child. Also, it has different rooms for interventions with the child and his family (family counseling, psychologist, counselling, etc.), Hall of physiotherapy, multi-purpose room for the development of individual and group activities, and stimulation neurocognitive and sensory integration room.
Furthermore, the conseller Jorge Cabré has reiterated “the importance of the early detection of some disturbances in the development of children, representing a substantial improvement in their quality of life”, and has ensured that “through early care centres are provided a suitable maturation in all areas”.
1,800 Places in the community
Currently, the Valencian Community has 31 centres of attention early to care or preventive treatment of children with problems of development or risk of suffering that offered a total of 1,800 beds for children from 0 to 3 years, allowing to give daily attention to more than 4,000 children.
These centres dependent entities without spirit of profit as the Asindown Foundation and the Valencian Association of help to the Cerebral Palsy (AVAPACE), or city councils such as Xativa and Orihuela, among others. In 2012, the Ministry of Justice and Social Welfare provides for 6.1 million euros in grants to these centers.
“Despite the economic crisis the Generalitat has not diminished the budgets for the most vulnerable groups and, in some cases, has increased them as for example for persons with disabilities which for this exercise increases by 6.4 million euros more than in 2011”, has highlighted.
For its part, the rector of the University, Stephen Morcillo, has highlighted the teaching and research of the CUDAT work and has also stressed that modern societies must “demonstrate sensitivity towards the most disadvantaged groups” and “do everything it can to integrate them into society”.
