Política de acolhimento institucional para adolescentes: uma análise através das percepções de jovens institucionalizados sobre o viver em abrigo

Abstract

This study aims to analyze institutional reception policy through the perceptions of young people about living in shelter. This policy is part of the high complexity of Social Assistance, and is effective as a social assistance service. The group studied in this study includes young people between the ages of 15 and 19, who are male and live in a shelter in the city of Fortaleza, capital of Ceará. In order to carry out this analysis, I use some assumptions and techniques inherent to the In-depth Assessment, trying to combine the knowledge about the perceptions of the young, the context of effectiveness and elaboration of the policy, the speeches that shape it and the socio-historical and institutional trajectories. The analyzes demonstrated the sense of contradiction and ambivalence that young people construct in their perceptions about life in a shelter, evidencing that this physical and subjective space is the stage of intense processes of signification; demonstrate the need to strengthen ties of origin, create the conditions for an autonomous life, as well as the qualification of professionals and institutional reception spaces that, although precarious, are still a point of support and a basis for the young people's drive for a future worthy. It concludes by exposing the need for a policy that is in fact linked to the interests and contexts of young people and their families.