Organized by the Municipality of Concordia and the Argentine Social Observatory, a training session was held on the implementation of psychosocial tools for the community, in which municipal agents, health workers, teachers, members of security forces, and intermediate organizations participated.
The activity, coordinated by the Directorate of Social Strengthening Policies of the Health Secretariat, featured a presentation by Dr. Darío Gigena Parker, who explained the technical foundations of the PAHO/WHO international protocols, aimed at providing practical tools for psychosocial containment, mutual support, and self-care for teams in the face of contingencies and crisis situations that impact our community.
During the opening, mayor Francisco Azcué stated that “these types of actions are part of the public policies carried out by the Municipality, strengthening preventive actions on sensitive issues that involve our community, and for this, it is important to have professionalized work teams, mainly our municipal agents. By doing this, the impact is direct on the residents”.
“Addressing these issues, which are complex for society, is not easy, which is why we know that there is much to work on and learn to do so, and since it cannot be solved overnight, these instances are necessary. We do not lose focus that behind every situation there are families, there are people that is why –he reiterated– it is necessary to have trained teams,” remarked Azcué.
For his part, the Secretary of Health Diego Sauré highlighted first the work carried out by Social Strengthening “addressing a very difficult problem, and they do it every day with vocation. Concordia is one of the few cities that has a place for outpatient mental health care,” adding that the city is preparing for the impact that the El Niño phenomenon would have, where psychosocial containment will play a preponderant role.
The Director of Social Strengthening Policies Anabel Vergara highlighted that “this administration has been actively dealing with mental health and the emotional well-being of the residents. A sign of this is the implementation of a new prevention program, in addition to advancing in an agreement with the Departmental Directorate of Schools to take prevention directly to the classrooms”.
In this sense, she announced that the First Binational Meeting on Suicide Prevention will be held on September 19, “consolidating an agenda that addresses these problems with seriousness and international coordination. We work to transform listening into concrete actions and thus contribute to the care of emotional well-being”.
During the training, certificates were delivered to the community preventers and agents who completed the previous training paths.
The activity, coordinated by the Directorate of Social Strengthening Policies of the Health Secretariat, featured a presentation by Dr. Darío Gigena Parker, who explained the technical foundations of the PAHO/WHO international protocols, aimed at providing practical tools for psychosocial containment, mutual support, and self-care for teams in the face of contingencies and crisis situations that impact our community.
During the opening, mayor Francisco Azcué stated that “these types of actions are part of the public policies carried out by the Municipality, strengthening preventive actions on sensitive issues that involve our community, and for this, it is important to have professionalized work teams, mainly our municipal agents. By doing this, the impact is direct on the residents”.
“Addressing these issues, which are complex for society, is not easy, which is why we know that there is much to work on and learn to do so, and since it cannot be solved overnight, these instances are necessary. We do not lose focus that behind every situation there are families, there are people that is why –he reiterated– it is necessary to have trained teams,” remarked Azcué.
For his part, the Secretary of Health Diego Sauré highlighted first the work carried out by Social Strengthening “addressing a very difficult problem, and they do it every day with vocation. Concordia is one of the few cities that has a place for outpatient mental health care,” adding that the city is preparing for the impact that the El Niño phenomenon would have, where psychosocial containment will play a preponderant role.
The Director of Social Strengthening Policies Anabel Vergara highlighted that “this administration has been actively dealing with mental health and the emotional well-being of the residents. A sign of this is the implementation of a new prevention program, in addition to advancing in an agreement with the Departmental Directorate of Schools to take prevention directly to the classrooms”.
In this sense, she announced that the First Binational Meeting on Suicide Prevention will be held on September 19, “consolidating an agenda that addresses these problems with seriousness and international coordination. We work to transform listening into concrete actions and thus contribute to the care of emotional well-being”.
During the training, certificates were delivered to the community preventers and agents who completed the previous training paths.