Spain - The Salesians at Alcoy promote a day centre for children with special needs
Alcoy, Spain - November 2023 - Since the end of October, the Salesian Ángel Tomás Solidarity Initiative Foundation (FISAT) Social Platform has concluded an agreement with the Generalitat Valenciana, which provides a new socio-educational resource for the city of Alcoy, to promote the quality of life of girls, boys and adolescents. Thanks to the new agreement, the Don Bosco Educational Support Project in Alcoy becomes a Day Centre, named Don Bosco Day Centre, with the capacity to care for 24 girls and boys in need of specialised attention. This doubles the number of recipients and provides the resource with an intervention team consisting of social educators, a social worker, a psychologist and a Social Intervention Technician. The FISAT Foundation will work with the city's Social Services to refer new recipients until places are filled. The Don Bosco Day Care Centre accompanies boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 17 in situations of vulnerability and facilitates orientation processes, full social integration through socio-educational, family, recreational and leisure support services, and school support. It is an open day care resource inserted in an active and participative way in the territory and becomes part of the public network of centres for the protection of minors at risk and social exclusion in the Valencian Community. The Don Bosco Day Care Centre is part of the Social Educational Platform of the Alcoy Salesians. FISAT currently has three day care centres, two in Valencia and one in Alcoy; as well as six Educational Support Projects (EAPs), and in 2022 served more than 300 children and adolescents through these resources.
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