The second deputy mayor, Elena Álamo Vega, proposes to the insular Minister of Education and Youth, Olaia Morán, that she finance a specific course at the Maspalomas Summer University where this problem is addressed with top-level pedagogues, psychologists and psychiatrists.
The second deputy mayor and councilor responsible for the municipal area of Culture, Equality, Youth and Education, Elena Álamo Vega, has taken advantage of the visit made to the municipality by the Minister of Education and Youth of the Island Council of Gran Canaria, Olaia Morán Ramírez, to explain the concern that is being seen in the educational and health sectors due to the cases of anxiety crises, self-harm and suicide attempts that are being detected among the younger population.
"There are no studies with cross-statistics that reaffirm the harshness of this problem, but it is an issue that no longer goes unnoticed by tutors and managers of educational centers, nor by health technicians in Health centers such as the from Maspalomas. In both sectors, education and health, it is suggested that it is becoming an incipient but quite serious problem, which is why it would be necessary not to delay the adoption of preventive measures and to proceed with its analysis and research to provide answers," says Elena Álamo.
In this sense, the second deputy mayor asked the insular Minister of Education and Youth for the support of the Cabildo to address self-harm and suicide attempts in young people in the next edition of the Maspalomas Summer University, incorporating it as a proposal specific course in which top-level experts in pedagogy and in the socio-health branches of psychology and child and adolescent psychiatry participate as speakers.
The representatives of the City Council also raised with the island leader the need for the Cabildo to support in the educational and youth spheres the development of training and preventive activities and initiatives aimed at addressing the consumption of pornography in children under 13 and 14 years of age that distort reality. .
In this meeting with Morán Ramírez, where the delegate councilor for Education, Culture and Youth, Esther Delgado Sánchez, and the municipal technicians of said departments also participated, the representatives of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council also presented to the counselor the need to “ advance” the direct subsidies that the Cabildo grants annually to this local administration to develop projects in the areas of Education and Youth.
In this regard, the councilors placed special emphasis on the need to "streamline", above all, the procedures for the 19.000 euro subsidy intended for curricular support projects for students with learning deficits, "in order to be able to manage the money accurately and with the necessary time during this 2023-2024 school year.” The possibility of incorporating among these projects the hiring of specific support teachers to decongest the Enclave Classrooms of public secondary schools was also raised.
Youth Center
Elena Álamo and Esther Delgado also raised their concerns with the island councilor about the closure and dismantling of the San Fernando de Maspalomas Youth Center carried out by the previous government group during the covid pandemic, without deciding to restore its operation after the completion. of the state of alarm. Given this situation and given the geographic and population extension of the municipality, the municipal leaders raised with Román Ramírez the need for financial, material and technical support to be able to articulate a program of youth activities that could be carried out in all neighborhoods, centralizing the actions in cultural and civic-neighborhood centers for their neuralgic performance as social meeting points.
Likewise, the municipal governors proposed to the Minister of Education and Youth the need for collaboration from the Cabildo to establish an operational aid system that processes the processing of subsidies and the management of the administrative procedures of the associations representing groups with disabilities, since which are usually mostly presided over by fathers and mothers who are unaware of the procedures.
