Funcionamento do Capsi para crianças e adolescentes em Fortaleza - Ceará no pós-pandemia: avanços e desafios

Abstract

This monograph is a research about the advances and challenges of the strategic equipment Center for Psychosocial Child Care - CAPSi in the city of Fortaleza - CE as a public policy for mental health. The focus of this work takes place in the post-pandemic context regarding the operation of this equipment. The research is organized as a bibliographical and documentary research about the historical path in which the creation of the Mental Health Policies and the Movements that originated the CAPS took place, in addition to describing the functioning of the CAPSi present in the Regional Executive Secretariats 2 and 6 of the city of Fortaleza - Ceará and analyzes the existing operating demands according to the number of CAPSi implemented in view of the population and the increase in demand in the post-pandemic context. Data analysis takes place from a report by the Center for the Defense of Children and Adolescents - CEDECA (2021) regarding the functioning of the CAPS in a qualitative way. There was a deficient number of CAPSi for the population of the city of Fortaleza, in addition, the increase in demand and the severity of users already assisted by the equipment with the post-pandemic scenario, in addition, the attempt by managers to budgetary reorganization of this policy in the PPA - 2022-2025 for the implementation of the Psychosocial Network. Finally, it is possible to visualize the lack of transparent information regarding the functioning and perspectives of the CAPSi by managers and the Health Department. In view of what has been exposed, it is necessary for the population to know and approach the academy on this subject in the form of social control.