Day was made at the Technical School pointing to coexistence, participation, well -being and suicide prevention
With the participation of students and teachers from all the middle schools of the department, a new stage of the 2nd edition of the Welfare Program was met on Wednesday.
They joined the proposal of INAU and the CECAP of Melo, a non -formal education proposal that captures young people disconnected from the formal education system between 14 and 20 years.
“This is the 2nd Meeting of Delegations of Secondary Education Centers of the Department of Cerro Largo in this project called Welfare that points to coexistence, participation, to well -being and suicide prevention” He held the Professor Verónica García.
“The technical teams of both the General Directorate of Secondary Education and the General Directorate of Professional Technical Education are leading these meetings, accompanying the boys who are also working in educational centers with all their classmates” highlighted. “We also have the participation of CECAP and we are accompanying us today by the INAU’s own team with young people who are leading these participation processes and accompanying our young people” broad.
“We are working very strong to ensure that all institutions in territory can work in a network to strengthen accompaniment to our young people, protect trajectories. In these logics, both the participation of the MEC, of INAU, as well as the Departmental Directorate of Health, the private health that has been helping us has been remarkable,” The Coordinator of the UCDIE of Cerro Largo stressed.
“It has been a year of a formidable work and a lot of collaboration between institutions.” said to The daily professional.
“The idea of the project is that the meetings of the delegations, with teachers and students, allow to strengthen the teams and then bring the subject to educational centers and develop a set of activities throughout the year that general consciousness and the promotion of good health habits, which favor good coexistence, the participation of all young people, which allows their voice to be raised above that of adults in educational centers” Verónica García emphasized.
He recalled that you have to know how to listen to teenagers and young people to attend their claims and their problems. “This work has allowed magnificent realizations” assured. “A second year of the project was achieved. In the 1st edition we had very positive results, this year even participation has been much greater” revealed.
The closure will be in November
This Wednesday, September 17, the 2nd Departmental Meeting was held on the upper floor of the Gymnasium School. “In the month of November we will be closing with the 3rd face -to -face meeting with the presentation of all the work carried out during the year in each educational center, with the participation of the delegations and these teams that have been incorporated into the project” told
“This is going to be done at the Agrarian School, in a very nice environment, which also allows us to return a bit of this work, an enjoyment for the boys in that space” express.
The results are positive
From her experience as a classroom teacher, Professor Verónica García said that there have been substantial advances after these meeting instances.
“The most important thing is that we give space to young people to express themselves. It is a moment where one listens and understands them. Sometimes there are important generational differences and you have to know how to listen to what they feel and how situations live” He stressed. “The world is in permanent change and our educational centers have to learn to accompany the needs and real life of our young people, day by day in the classroom and in their homes” said. “That allows to build a good link between teachers and students, build together, coexistence, participation and allows them to feel much more empowered, enhances their desire to be in the teaching centers and to carry out activities” He ended up saying.
