Training Agreement for Healthcare and Social Professionals in La Gomera

The La Gomera Council and ESSSCAN collaborate to enhance public service worker training.

Generic image of an institutional building in a Canarian landscape.
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Generic image of an institutional building in a Canarian landscape.

The Cabildo de La Gomera and the Canary Islands School of Health and Social Services (ESSSCAN) have formalized an agreement to develop a multidisciplinary training plan for professionals in the health, social, and sociosanitary sectors operating on the island.

This agreement aims to strengthen public services in La Gomera, with a particular focus on care for the elderly, functional diversity, minors, and those requiring specialized sociosanitary support. The island's council president, Casimiro Curbelo, emphasized the importance of continuous training to ensure high-quality care adapted to evolving social needs.
Curbelo highlighted that investing in professional teams' training directly contributes to citizen well-being and the improvement of public resources on the island. Meanwhile, the director of ESSSCAN, José Francisco Montelongo, praised the institutional collaboration for enhancing the quality of public services through staff training.
The agreement includes the joint organization of training activities in areas such as sociosanitary care, humanization of care, mental health, prevention of burnout syndrome, communication with dependent individuals, palliative care, nutrition, dementia care, mobility, and fall prevention, as well as nursing care, among others.
ESSSCAN will be responsible for planning, organizing, and delivering the training, as well as managing registrations and certifications. The Cabildo will collaborate in dissemination, facilitate staff participation, finance the activities, and may provide island facilities for their development.
The planned program encompasses general training, specific actions for functional diversity, training for the elderly and minors, team leadership, promotion of personal autonomy, restraint-free care, mental health and burnout prevention, palliative care and emotional support, Alzheimer's and other dementias, pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, ostomy care, sexual and affective education, and intervention in youth violence situations.

"Continuous staff training is an essential tool to guarantee quality care, adapted to new social needs and focused on people."

Casimiro Curbelo · President of the Cabildo de La Gomera

"which aims to improve the quality of public services provided to the population through staff training."

José Francisco Montelongo · Director of ESSSCAN