The City Council approved a series of measures at Thursday’s session regulations to address problematic consumption and mental health. These are three ordinances previously debated in commissions and that had also been discussed in a public hearing on the subject held weeks ago.
The councillors approved the creation of a system for the prevention and approach to problematic consumptiona program of training for municipal agents and special guards in public effectors and the Sies.
He system for the prevention and comprehensive approach to problematic consumption –promoted by councillor Lucas Raspall– will attempt to “develop a cross-cutting strategy within the municipal public administration in relation to the prevention and approaches to problematic consumption of psychoactive substances”.
Within this framework, a local agency will be created that will promote prevention actions and massive dissemination campaigns.
He training program in community approach to problematic consumption It will be “for all persons who work in the municipal public service.”
That training “will be mandatory for the members of the secretariats included in the Social Cabinet and the Secretariat of Control and Coexistence, and electives for the others municipal departments”, according to the ordinance of mayor Mariano Romero.
Finally, the third ordinance on the subject approved this Thursday is from Councilwoman Caren Tepp and creates the “Evaluation and Care Guide for Emergencies and Emergencies in Mental Health and Problematic Consumption”, for guard services and the Sies.
“The guide will determine the evaluation and intervention criteria and will regulate the care circuit of the effectors, in order to guarantee timely and proper attention to emergency situations presented by the user, in all accordance with and preserving the rights of the users of the system as established by the national mental health law”, indicates the text of the approved ordinance.
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