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Down Lorca inaugurates this afternoon its new headquarters of 180 m2 to offer and expand the services, programs and therapies that benefit its 21 users

The premises, located on Lope Gisbert Street, have a social work office, another for secretarial and administration, two speech therapy rooms, a pedagogy room, a TVA (Transition to Adult Life) room, a room for SEPAP (Service of Promotion of Personal Autonomy) with room for 8 seats and two toilets.

In addition, the Association has a social worker, two social educators, two speech therapists and a pedagogue who are responsible for carrying out activities with users and designing individual development plans for each person in collaboration with the family

The Councilor of Oenegés of the City of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez, visited this morning with the president of Down Lorca, Jose Ortuño, the facilities of the new headquarters of this Association, located in the street Lope Gisbert (front old police station), which This afternoon will be inaugurated by the Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and by the Family and Equality Councilor of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Violante Tomás.

Down Lorca has since today a new headquarters where it can continue to offer its users the services, programs and therapies that had been offering these four years since it was founded in February 2013. The facilities have two access doors, one main The street Lope Gisbert and another back by the street Santa Rosa of Lima with ramp of accessibility.

The room, with an area of ​​180 m2, has a social work desk, another for secretarial and administration, two speech therapy rooms, a pedagogy room, a TVA (Transition to Adult Life) room, a room for SEPAP (Service of Promotion of Personal Autonomy) with room for 8 seats and two toilets, one of them adapted for people with reduced mobility.

Currently Down Lorca Association has 21 users, in the ages between 2 and 25 years, meeting their needs individually and collectively.

The Association also offers services such as social work, administration and secretariat, SEPAP, family reception, myofunctional therapy, speech therapy, school support, cognitive stimulation, group workshops, transition to adult life and a summer school, among others.

It also has numerous professionals such as a social worker, two social educators, two speech therapists and a pedagogue who are responsible for carrying out activities with users and to design individual development plans for each person in collaboration with the family.

In this sense, from Monday to Friday in the morning, Down Lorca offers the Service of Promotion of Personal Autonomy (SEPAP) to users inside and outside the center conducting outings to the street.

Also, professionals move to schools to offer school-based support to school-age children (ages 3 to 14).

In the afternoon, the Association is open from 4 pm to 8 pm, from Monday to Thursday, scheduling individual sessions of speech therapy, cognitive stimulation, transition to adult life and group workshops of communication and social skills, which are done once a month.

Soon, Down Lorca will offer a leisure and free time service for children on Fridays afternoon.

Fátima Mínguez has stated that "from the City of Lorca we will continue to support social inclusion projects, as we work on it convinced of its high profitability and social use. In fact we are very honored to work with Down Lorca because it is a collective that Always goes one step further within the projects that materialize, promoting inclusion and respect through coexistence, is the case of the agreement signed for the completion of summer school or another to provide material and furniture this new Sede. Similarly, we continue to support this group in all that is necessary since it is very important that there are such associations to support families who have or may have members with this disease.

Down Lorca is a collective formed in 2013 by a group of parents of people with Down Syndrome, committed and willing to find solutions that can offer their children the necessary opportunities to develop as people with all their rights and create a project of Life with which they are happy.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca