📋 Tender Overview
The proposal is framed within the National Mental Health and Addictions Plan and is financed with the funds that were allocated for the area in the last accounting report.
This halfway house (transitional in nature) provides comprehensive care, promoting the autonomy and social reintegration of users. They will be able to stay between approximately 6 months and 2 years, which is the estimated time for them to graduate to a device with greater autonomy.
It is an open device in which people go out to carry out their treatments (at a health provider) and job and/or educational training processes, and are accompanied by a technical team. The referrals will be made by a MIDES team, in conjunction with the Social Work Area of ??the Vilardebó Hospital.
During the event, the national director of Social Protection of MIDES, Fernanda Auersperg, highlighted that "it is the third halfway house specialized in mental health problems that MIDES inaugurates. It tries to respond to those people who are hospitalized and do not have a containment from the outside so that when they are discharged they end up homeless."
On the other hand, the Minister of Social Development, Alejandro Sciarra, highlighted the work of the entire team and stressed that "they work with professionalism and heart."
Also participating in the activity were Gabriela Lago, co-founder and general coordinator of the Benito Menni Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center; representatives of the Vilardebó Hospital; and Daniel Sturla, bishop of Montevideo, among other authorities.
