As nuances do acolhimento institucional de crianças e adolescentes e o lugar das cuidadoras : um estudo de caso

Abstract

The work here presented is a result of two professionals’ desire, a psychologist and a social worker, on turning efective the rights of children and adolescents on a State based protection, inserted on provisional homes under the modality “Casa Lar”. That is a new experience in Aracaju-SE and it works under a new arrangement, which articulates workers and managers of Aracaju’s City Hall Administration and from a Non Governamental Organization, called Aldeias Infantis SOS Brasil. As long as the field is presented, as well as when it’s been introduced what mobilize the researchers to doing so, followed by the intervenction project, is necessary to indicate that, on this research, we investigate the forms of care offered by this modality, also the effects they cause on the children’s and adolescents’ physical and psychological development, as well as identify what kind of care and attenction can this new perspective offer, as an alternative of institutionalized shelters, beyond its new structure: the welcoming is made in houses, without the continuous presence of those technical professionals, with the existence of an intermittent caregiver taking up a place of reference, such as the place of the mother of those 9 children, on maximum, on the case in debate. We stablish the caregivers of that institution, they are also called “social mothers”, as objects of analysis, and we adopted a methodology which, besides the observation of their everyday work, applies semistructured interviews, what gave us the possibility of listening about their comprehension on their jobs, about their role, and about the place reserved to the children and adolescents of whom they take care. From there, it’s been made a diagnosis starting from key categories, such as care and rights, followed by the presentation of the intervention proposal.