Occupational Day Centres (CDO) are centres wherein the attitudes and skills of people with cognitive disabilities or mental illness can be assessed in relation to work in order to help them begin or recommence employment. They operate from Monday to Friday, between 9am and 3pm.
Objectives
- To offer a day-time service to people who are the recipients of social care in order to improve or maintain their level of personal independence.
- To bring about psychosocial rehabilitation, understood as a process that provides people suffering serious and chronic mental illnesses with the necessary skills for consummate social and employment integration.
- To enable the development of activities connected to occupational and social-workplace settings.
- To enable occupational training that is primarily concerned with the acquisition basic work habits.
Who it is aimed at
Anyone who meets the following requisites:
- People with serious and chronic mental illness.
- Those who have been referred by and are being treated by the mental health unit in question.
- Those who present psycho-pathological stability and a suitable level of motivation to allow them to attend the facility on a daily basis.
- Those who are in possession of or in the process of obtaining the certificate of disability with a degree of disability graded equal to or greater than 33%.
- Those who present no serious addictions that could affect the normal running of the facility.
Services offered
- Farming and gardening in Guía de Isora.
- Maintenance of buildings in Adeje.
- Traditional Canarian ceramics in Granadilla.
- Farming and gardening in Icod de los Vinos.
- Handcrafted bookbinding in San Juan de La Rambla.
- Computing and weaving in La Orotava.
- Bookbinding in La Laguna.
- Marquetry in La Laguna.
- Cabinet-making and furniture repair in La Laguna.
- Computer-aided design in Los Andenes.
- Canarian Pottery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- Office automation in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- Art therapy
- Movement Therapy
- Acting
Applications, Contact details and Information
- Insular Institute of Social and Socio-Sanitary Care
- Department for Disability
- Telephone: 922 843 156
- Website: www.iass.es
- Tenerife Association working for Mental Health(ATELSAM)
- Dirección: Calle Pedro Modesto, Campos Nº4 , 38008, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- Localizar en Google Maps
- Teléfono: 922 205 215
Fax: 922 205 258 - E-mail: ana.perez@atelsam.org
- Web: www.atelsam.net
- The Canary Islands Association of Families and People with Mental Illness (AFES)
- Address: Calle 6 de Diciembre, 3B, tercero A, 38203, La Laguna
- Find us on Google Maps
- Telephone: 922 630 883
- Fax: 922 260 797
- Website: www.afescanarias.com
- Insular Council for Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Telephone: 922 602 460
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