Canarian Coalition in the Cabildo proposes to implement a mental health plan in the 543 non-university educational centers of Tenerife. The nationalist counselor Verónica Meseguer will defend today a motion in the plenary commission on Employment, Socioeconomic Development, Education and Sports so that health professionals “become progressively integrated into the centers” and help “manage the emotions of young people.” The initiative will probably be approved institutionally and with the addition of some amendment by the other groups of the insular corporation.
This document would foster the prevention and promotion of adolescent emotional and relational health from the model of “educating islands and municipalities”. The nationalist counselor, Verónica Meseguer, will defend a motion in this sense during today’s plenary commission. In it, she urges the Government of the Canary Islands “to progressively integrate health professionals within educational centers in the Canary Islands and Tenerife to help manage the emotions of students.”
Meseguer points out that “adolescence is a phase of life in which emotional and affective difficulties are frequent.” In addition, he considers that “they have recently increased as a result of the health situation generated by Covid-19, which has directly affected their quality of life, their well-being and their development.” The counselor sentences: “It was not until after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that mental health ceased to be taboo not only in society, but also in the media.”
Verónica Meseguer indicates that from the educational centers “they transmit to us the concern for the change of attitude of many young people”. As a result of the pandemic, they have gone through complicated situations that have led to a radical change in their way of relating, giving rise to very complex moments.
In addition, the counselor emphasizes that “the economic crisis due to the global situation we are suffering, together with the problem of the youth population to access the labor market -with the highest unemployment rates in the national territory-, have only worsened the global situation even more. For this reason, she adds, “many young people are under stress and emotional tension in the face of the uncertain future that is presented to them.”
Meseguer adds that “it is necessary to address this situation from educational centers.” He considers it “essential” that the Government of the Canary Islands launch the Emotional and Psychological Support Plan on all the islands as soon as possible, “a tool whose objective is to create spaces for listening and helping our young people,” he indicates. The Cabildo “must adhere to that plan,” he concludes.
The PP asks the Cabildo in the same plenary commission for the creation of “an Inter-administrative Coordination Table” with the aim of “improving the conditions of the population affected by mental health problems.” This initiative is almost certain to culminate in a single final document together with the Canarian Coalition proposal. Counselor Águeda Fumero explains: “The mental health data, especially among young people, are worrying.” She stresses that “we must urgently develop a global mental health plan from a comprehensive, transversal, multidisciplinary, humanized, personalized and equitable point of view.” |
