Jaume Funes: "The local environment has to ensure the resources for a happy childhood"



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## Jaume Funes: "The local environment has to ensure the resources for a happy childhood"

07/06/2016 |
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The psychologist, educator and journalist Jaume Funes vindicates the importance of projects and resources driven  from the local environment to ensure that children and adolescents from 0 to 18 have at least "a minimum of the happiness needed to be a balanced person". "They are citizens of other ages who have the right that adults ensure for them a set of vital opportunities, development, and integration in society through attention and resources", he states.  
  
The Graduation Hall of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the Universitat Jaume I hosted the lecture delivered by Jaume Funes and organized by the IVAJ and the Vice-rectorate for Students, Employment and Educational Innovation of the UJI aimed at people working in the field of youth. During his speech, Funes said that it is necessary to think of "services and systems to ensure opportunities and experiences to young people, to help them feel sufficiently satisfied with themselves, and to become citizens of the society in which we live". However, he reminded not to act with children and youth to prevent a negative development in the future, "but because they have a right to have a good childhood now".  
  
Funes understands that "it is very difficult to talk about childhood without the context of the neighborhood and the local territory", so in his speech he reviewed some of the resources aimed at children that every local community should have. Among these, he understands that there must be programmes to prevent child poverty in all work areas; recreational spaces outside the formal education that enable a diverse range of stimuli, especially from 0 to 6 years; programmes that promote the bonds of minors with adults in their family group; actions aimed at enabling efficient paternity and maternity wards; children and teen meetings in which they can be comfortable and find adult figures to which they can refer; various mediation systems to address misunderstandings, tensions and conflicts; and resources that promote accompaniment in the transition to adolescence, among others.  
  
Funes has regretted that in times of crisis children and youth are the first affected. However, heunderstands that policies and measures for children also develop good times depending on the needs of adults without the participation and opinion of children. "The risk is often to respond to the demands of parents awithout regard to the needs and rights of children", he warns.  
  
The specialist, with over 40 years experience in the field of youth, stresses the importance of measures and policies on children and youth. "It is very likely that, in 4 or 5 years time, we start having sets of young people who will find no reason to respect the society in which they are living, given that this society did not respect their childhood and youth. But do not get ahead, now they are still relatively happy despite our discomfort", Funes concluded. His speech was presented by the vice-rector for Students, Employment and Educational Innovation, Pilar García Agustín, and the Secretary General of the IVAJ, Jesus Martí.  
  
Video of the lecture: <http://www.svideo.uji.es/peli.php?codi=1992&lg>=

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