Colombia
Alcaldía de Manizales
Since 2014
15th.
The Pégate al Parche program, attached to the Secretary of Government of the Municipality of Manizales, is an initiative that reflects the interest of a Municipal Administration to build concrete scenarios that generate a balanced and relevant development for adolescents and young people in the city, Therefore, it is aimed at improving coexistence in those neighborhoods where there are combos, patches or gangs, and it is also aimed at reducing the homicide rate through the realization of citizen pacts, where invisible borders of almost 15 years of history were broken in some neighborhoods of the city and an improvement in the perception of security.
To build scenarios of peace and citizen participation with young people, their families, the community and the territories where the combos are present through reflective processes and social transformation, in order to influence significant changes that enhance the social environment of the city.
Oriented to the youth of the municipality.
In order to describe the actions that are being carried out in the peace-building programme "Pégate al parche más grande" (Stick to the biggest patch), it is important to understand the phenomena of interpersonal violence, behaviours contrary to coexistence in young people, and the consumption of psychoactive substances.
Underlying these three superficial phenomena, to which can be added suicidal behaviour, are behavioural problems and alterations in some biological systems, which we must intervene hand in hand with the health sector; however, beneath the biological factors there are complex social systems, and even below these social systems, there are living conditions, which make the problem much more serious. The programme has tried to have an impact on the root of these phenomena, on living conditions. It is for this reason that the programme has a number of strategies to be implemented in the programme, which are mentioned below:
1. Deployment, training and supervision of a multidisciplinary mobile team of psychosocial assistance.
2. Establishment of temporary psychosocial support centres in camps and host communities;
3. Organisation of cultural and socio-relational activities, creative and art-based activities, rituals and celebrations, sports and games, non-formal education and informal learning activities;
4. Counselling and support groups and training in counselling methods; 5;
5. Referral mechanisms for people with severe mental disorders; interpretation; cultural mediation; and strengthening national mental health systems.
6 Integration of a mental health perspective into the protection framework for vulnerable people affected by conflict.
The process includes from the identification and characterization of actors, to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of multi-sectoral formulation, implementation and evaluation of multisectoral Community Based Rehabilitation Plans. A high impact process is proposed community care with services close to the home, interventions based on psychosocial risks and based on the psychosocial risks of each individual and his or her family, coordinated services among coordinated services among professionals. In this sense, it is proposed to involve not only mental health mental health professionals, social entities and units of technology and entrepreneurship, which carry out and entrepreneurship units that carry out specific actions with the support and acceptance of the community. acceptance of the community. In this order of ideas, it should be considered that these actions of community community wellness actions start from the active and detailed exploration of social needs, followed by the social needs, followed by responses to those needs. This is called participatory diagnostic action that allows to act rationally, providing transparency to the programs involved and building bridges between other sectors that favor the improvement of living conditions in the communities.
In Manizales, 32 combos or patches have been identified, distributed in the 11 communes and with an impact on the daily dynamics in approximately 30 neighborhoods of the city, with which mutual aid groups have been initiated, difficulties in health and education have been managed and work has been done in the construction of youth participation strategies for social inclusion and unemployment reduction, forming a youth platform that involves their families and their community in general.
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