- Strategies for addressing and preventing mental health include actions with different environments and communities.
- These actions will be developed through the Collective Intervention Plan.
Santiago de Cali, June 27, 2024
Thanks to an alliance between the Ministries of Health and Culture, more than 70 librarians from Cali are being trained to be multipliers of information related to care routes for the comprehensive approach to problems that affect the mental health of people from Cali.
This strategy is carried out within the framework of the Collective Interventions Plan, PIC, led by the Public Health Secretariat of Cali to bring a wide range of comprehensive health services to all the territories and communes of the city, through Social Enterprises. of the State, ESE.
“From the Ministry of Public Health we are strengthening these strategies for health promotion and prevention, through social environments. In this case, librarians are a very important population that can help us to do prevention so that the community knows the health services they can access in case they need help with mental health,” explained Carlos Eduardo Pinzón, Undersecretary of Promotion, Prevention and Social Production of Health.
Cali has a District Mental Health Policy and under Agreement 0501 of 2021, the mental health model was created that is focused on addressing mental disorders, violence, and psychoactive substance use. This strategy is developed through joint actions with the health provider network, through the public IPS network, EPS and EABP, and the protective network, which includes the people who make up the different life environments: family , work, community.
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Why librarians?
The people who support such as librarians become an important potential to help identify risks and warning signs that may be affecting a person’s health. By being trained, they will have the ability to identify and guide the community to seek the appropriate care route. Likewise, it will be a way to do prevention and promotion of health services and healthy habits for life.
The training will be carried out in the areas of mental health, such as types of violence, the use and consumption of psychoactive substances, emotional management, depression and anxiety disorders and suicidal thoughts, as well as psychological first aid and health care routes.
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