Crianças em situação de rua falam sobre os abrigos

Abstract

The paper focuses reports of homeless children about their experience of living in shelters. It's a part of one research of which purpose was to allow the street children themselves, on São Paulo city, to express their representation about their life's trajectory. The data, gathered by individual interviews, were organise according to the method of the Analysis of Contents and principles of the theory of the Social Representation. The categories detached from the speech transcript, were grouped into meaningful experiences for the children, among which "the shelters". The analyse of this category showed clearly that the lack of a personal and affectionate attendance in the shelters contributes to the children choosing to stay in the streets.

Aspectos éticos e estratégias para a participação voluntária da criança em pesquisa

“…Aiming to reduce potential situations of embarrassment and emotional insecurity, data should be collected in the child's familiar environment such as day care, school or home, if possible (13)(14)(15)(16) . Offering appropriate toys can also reduce the procedure's potentially frightening character (13) .…”

“…A way to confirm a child's desire to participate in a study in the case of school age children is to ask her/him to sign a consent form (16)(17) . Even though there is no real need to ask a child's signature (6) , we have observed that children feel valued when they are asked to sign the form, which contributes to their autonomy (9) .…”

“…Sometimes, the procedure itself has to be reviewed due to unexpected demands, such as when a child asks to record her/his testimony alone in a room, only to be heard later by the researcher (16) . Thus, one has to be open to welcome creative initiatives related to the setting, sequence, form or any other aspect of the procedure with a view to facilitate the child's participation.…”

Exposição a Fatores de Risco de Adolescentes em Acolhimento Institucional no Sul do Brasil

“…Além disso, o tempo de institucionalização pode influenciar a rede de apoio, especialmente quanto à percepção de proximidade e qualidade das relações, visto que maior tempo de institucionalização pode associar-se a pior percepção de proximidade nas relações e menor número de contatos na rede de apoio . Aspectos como alta rotatividade de funcionários, falta de atividades planejadas e de apoio afetivo, que interferem diretamente no apoio social, podem trazer prejuízos aos jovens que se desenvolvem em instituições (Azor & Vectore, 2008;Carvalho, 2002;Ribeiro & Ciampone, 2002), sobretudo aqueles com menor frequência de convivên-cia familiar (Prada & Weber, 2002;Prada, Williams, & Weber, 2007).…”

Interactions between Siblings in Institutional Sheltering: A Case Study

“…Several researchers (Maia and Williams, 2005;Oliveira, 2006;Ribeiro and Ciampone, 2002) havecome to anagreementthat the shelter may be a risk factor for several reasons, among them are: if it keeps the child from living in a family and community environment, making it difficult for the siblings to bond; if it lacks individual attention and affective relationship; if there is no exchange between the school and the community, among other things, constituting therefore a place for protection if the opposite is true (Abaid;Siqueira & Dell'Aglio, no prelo;Siqueira & Dell'Aglio, 2006).…”