Children Cieza Network, through the Department of Social Welfare, has recently held a meeting with the directors, managers and / or coordinators of schools and health centers, in order to present the DIFA Protocol.
The DIFA Protocol has been designed by the working group intervention with families at social risk posed by a member with mental illness, integrated Childhood Red Cieza and formed by professionals in the education, health and social services.
The same authors are Juan Fernandez Alarcon, Early Childhood;
Motorcycles Mercedes Garcia, a psychologist at the Center for Social Services;
M.ª saving Pérez Valero, social worker at the Social Services Centre;
Victoria Valcarcel, a psychiatrist at the Mental Health Center;
Mª Dolores García González, a psychologist at the Mental Health Center;
Narcisa Martinez Martinez, social worker at the health center;
Antonio Lopez Alvarez, Counselor of EOEP;
Mª del Mar Gómez Pérez, AFEMCE social worker, and Maria Rosario Salmerón Giménez, social worker at the Social Services Centre.
Currently, not all such professionals continue to be part of it, given the time that has been required for this work, producing changes in some services that have led to the departure of some and the entry of other partners, joining Silvia Torregrosa, working social Mental Health Center and Desiderio Mejias, director of the center.
The design of the questionnaire data collection is a crucial phase whose quality depends largely on the quality finally obtained results, what has made the maximum effort to select all the data that are relevant to the case detection children who have certain psycho-social difficulties, when one of the adult members are in a state of mental illness, mental deficiency or drug use.
Not only must clearly define what questions are made and what measures are to be registered, but also how the questions clearly, how answers are classified and how they will be located arise.
And for that they have used the Delphi method, which involves selecting a group of experts who were asked for feedback on the items proposed by the task force for this purpose.
They participated through the Delphi Method A total of 17 professionals from university faculties of Pedagogy and Psychology, mental health units, Court of Cieza, Service Integration and Family Promotion Family Service and Advice and Information Studies Department Family and Social Policy, early care centers, AFEMCE federation, institute directors and directors secondary public schools.
The DIFA Protocol is a protocol that aims to standardize the indicators method of detecting cases of families with psychosocial difficulties in order to enable a proper approach to the problem situation, allowing a rapid and appropriate treatment and / or prevention risk situations in children for reasons mentioned above.
It is addressed to professionals in the health, education and social services field, considering that the role of teachers, educators, pediatricians, pediatric nurses, social workers and social workers is particularly relevant in the work of prevention, identification and notification situations of social risk children.
The daily proximity to the reality of children, the status they have in the community and make them specific training key professionals in dealing with situations involving children at risk.
Cristina García-Vaso, Councillor for Social Welfare, valued very positively the implementation of this protocol, since "it is a very valuable to locate children in possible risk and exclusion instrument, and therefore, should be observed a problem for children, allows rapid action from the various administrations involved, so that requests all professionals involved collaboration in the implementation and development of this program. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza