Maye Villa de Lemus, president of the DIF Jalisco system, inaugurated this afternoon the first care center for people living on the autism spectrum at CRIT West, located in the Arboledas del Sur neighborhood, in Guadalajara.
It is estimated that this center will be able to serve 200 children and adolescents, andMonday to Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. It will have an investment of 7.5 million pesos annually to cover maintenance, administration, operation and operating expenses.
“It is not only about expanding the coverage of services provided to the population on the autism spectrum, but with actions like this we are expressing to the people of Jalisco “that they can count on their state government and on sensitive and trained institutions to assist them and accompany them in the process of finding strategies for the full development of their loved ones who live under this condition,” said the president of the DIF Jalisco.
This center, Villa added, It is the first of five to be built in the state. On February 2, the construction of a property in Tepatiltán will begin, which will be completed in December of this year and will have an investment of around 80 million pesos. There will also be a center in Ciudad Guzmán, Puerto Vallarta and Lagos de Moreno.
In Guadalajara and Zapopan, 3,500 children and adolescents on the autism spectrum are on a waiting list. confirmed the public official. During the state six-year term, it is expected to serve 2,400 people in the five centers that will make up the care network.
“I am a teacher and I love children, but when my daughter was born I knew why many children in the classroom cannot give 100, much less 50. I really thank each one of you because you opened this space and I hope that more spaces are opened that are close to the mothers who find it difficult to come here because, as I already told you, it is a door and a drop of honey for our hearts, for all the mothers who are on this long path and who do not know about this, because until you are here, you do not know,” commented Alejandra Maestro, mother of Alejandra, one of the girls enrolled in the center. attention at CRIT West.
Health conditions that prevent rehabilitation treatment or that endanger the integrity of the person or others, autism spectrum disorders with extreme levels of inflexibility in behavior and intense anxiety that interfere with functioning are some of the exclusion criteria for this center of attention.
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