Month: June 2023

The Monaco Mairie has celebrated the birth of 60 new babies in Monaco this past year during a traditional ceremony in the Court of Honour.

On Saturday 24th June at the City Hall, Monaco Mayor Georges Marsan and several members of the Municipal Council received the Monaco families who welcomed their first child between 1^st May 2022 and 30^th April 2023.

The special “Mother’s Day and Father’s Day” celebration, which has been organised every year since 2015, marks the big event that is the birth of the first child and is part of the policy implemented by the Municipal Council for families.

During the ceremony, the mayor spoke about the recent actions carried out by the Early Childhood and Families Service under the leadership of Chloé Boscagli Leclercq: the opening of three new nurseries within four years – Palais Honoria, Grand Ida and Bel Air; a new place of reception for families in the Foyer Sainte-Devote; the creation of a new Làscia e Piya! space for exchanging childcare items; and the My Daycare app project, which will allow parents to follow childcare news and activities offered within the Principality.

The mayor also spoke about the Parent Spaces, developed by the Early Childhood and Families Service, which are places for exchanges, meetings and games with professionals, allowing all questions from families to be answered.

“To raise and educate children by giving them every chance to become happy, responsible and respectful of others is a difficult task that we are facing,” said Mayor Marsan. “We have to do our best. Our children are our future, they will shape the community of the future years.”

The families were gifted with a bathrobe, embroidered with “I’m from Monaco!” in Monegasque: “Min, sun de Mùnegu!”

The day finished with celebratory cocktail.

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Photo source: Mairie de Monaco

Monaco and France have announced the upcoming opening of a new psychiatric centre in Beausoleil that will welcome children and adolescents, including those who suffer with disorders requiring more full-time care.  

As many of one in five teenagers suffer from mental health issues, according to the UK’s Mental Health Foundation, and it is believed that 50% of long-term mental health problems develop by the age of 14.  

Given these numbers and the seriousness of the subject, Monaco and France have teamed up to build a new paediatric psychiatric centre in Beausoleil that will begin welcoming outpatients this autumn. 

A JOINT EFFORT 

The announcement by Monaco’s Minister of State Pierre Dartout and François Braun, the French Minister for Health and Prevention, was made on 23rd June in the Principality and followed the official signing of an administrative arrangement to formalise the agreement.  

This centre has been five years in the making, with the original idea floated in October 2018 by a partnership involving the Monegasque Department of Social Affairs and Health, the PACA Regional Health Agency and the Lenval Foundation. 

Since then, a 650m2 property in Beausoleil has been secured and the future centre co-financed by the involved parties.  

WHAT IT WILL OFFER? 

The centre will offer outpatient services for children up to the age of 18 as well as help for young people who have psychological conditions that prevent them from participating in the usual everyday activities of their peers, such as attending school full-time.  

For these specific cases, accommodation for up to 35 patients will be offered, with 17 spaces reserved for children living in or going to school in the Principality, and the remainder going to those from the eastern Alpes-Maritimes.  

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Photo credit: Manuel Vitali / Monaco Communications Department