The Department of Addiction Prevention, in collaboration with the Department of Festivals, organized a meeting earlier this week with representatives of the Local Board Fallera and the Federation of Moors and Christians to begin working on the adhesion of these Dianense festive entities to the Responsible Service program, whose basic purpose is to prevent and reduce the risks that the abusive consumption of alcohol and other drugs can produce in leisure contexts, including popular festivals.
The Responsible Service program is an initiative of the Government Delegation for the National Plan on Drugs that has the participation and involvement of the professional and business community in the hospitality sector. The program is developed within the framework of the collaboration agreement between the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and the Spanish Hospitality Federation. In Dénia it began to be implemented in the hospitality industry in 2014.
This contact with the festive entities has served as a prior step to the implementation of the program, in order to raise awareness in the festive sector about the importance of the role they can play as social agents to avoid or reduce the risks associated with the consumption of alcohol and other drugs. in festive leisure contexts.
Given this important step in terms of prevention, the Councilor for Addiction Prevention, Melani Ivars, points out that "what we want is to promote and value the commitment to social co-responsibility that such well-known entities as the Fallas and the Moors and Christians.
Both entities have shown interest and great motivation in joining efforts to lead and achieve safer, responsible, healthy and quality parties, thus giving greater distinction to the good practices that they have already been implementing; in addition to being references within the festive world of the Valencian Community, honoring its special cultural relevance and historical popular tradition.
The starting point for the implementation of the Responsible Service program in the city festivals will be a first training session with representatives of all the Fallas commissions and the blackberry filaes and Christians in the month of December.
Two sessions will be held, scheduled for December 11 and 12, lasting five hours, with a minimum forecast of about 30 people attending. Each person who attends will receive an accreditation certificate that can serve them professionally in the world of hospitality. Badges will also be presented to each commission and rank as a sign of their commitment to Responsible Service.
"This is a first step in a long trajectory that we will progressively develop and evaluate to establish a permanent collaboration and achieve the intended objectives," commented Melani Ivars when calling this week's meeting.
The meeting on the 14th was attended by the Festival Councilor, Raúl García de la Reina, the president and secretary of the Fallera Local Board, Jaime Bertomeu and Salva Llorens; the president and secretary of the FEMMICC, Sonia Pérez and Santi Escotell; a representative of Hazkunde Prevention, a collaborating entity in the development of the program, and technical staff from the two council departments.
