Focusing on the construction of a more human system, integrated and committed to care, the afternoon of the event Interfaces among Justice System, Mental Health and Socio-Education, held last Wednesday (October 22nd), was marked by deep reflections on the importance of placing the adolescent at the center of public policies. The meeting brought together professionals from the areas of Justice, Health and Social Assistance around a common goal, to transform care into a structuring axis of the socio-educational system.
The programming was consolidated as a space for exchange of experiences, showing that the effectiveness of socio-educational measures depends on an intersectoral action capable of breaking institutional and bureaucratic barriers. Throughout the programming, managers, technicians and specialists reinforced the urgency of strengthening the protection network, ensuring continuous monitoring to adolescents during and after compliance with the measures.
When opening the debates, Judge Reinaldo de Oliveira Dutra highlighted the need to redefine the role of institutions in face the young people in compliance with socio-educational measures, reaffirming that the centrality of the system must be in the reconstruction of lives, and not only in surveillance.
“Who do we want to protect? Are the teenagers, right? So the protagonist has to be the teenager and what we will build to improve mental health. We are all together, the Ministry, the Court, with the aim of delivering the best public service to them", said.
Then, Professor Daniela Aparecida Araújo Fernandes, from the Catholic University Center of the state of Tocantins (UniCatólica), addressed the role of training and continuing education in the consolidation of intersectoral practices. For her, the strengthening of the network depends on prepared professionals (not only technically, but also emotionally) able to listen and understand the complexity of the stories that reach the system.
“Caring requires preparation, listening and empathy. Training is the way for socio-education to become truly a space of transformation", she highlighted.
The Psychosocial Attention Table in Socio-Educational: Policies, Networks and Transition of Care also had the participation of Marlucy Ramos Albuquerque Carmo, from the Secretariat of Social Action and Women of the city of Palmas, who reinforced the importance of a continuous and integrated psychosocial attention. "Psychosocial care is essential to ensure comprehensive health care, social reintegration and prevention of recidivism," she stated.
Closing the programming, the exhibitor Geovana Gomes brought a reflection on the role of professionals and institutional networks in the effectiveness of care. With a firm and sensitive speech, she warned that the lack of integration among sectors compromises the effectiveness of public policies.
"Without professionals committed to the integrality and intersectoriality, the network becomes a set of disconnected pieces, failing with the users," she said. The psychologist concluded by reinforcing that the socio-educational system needs to be guided by practices that give voice and protagonism to adolescents.
“When we talk about socio-educational measures, we need to talk about the adolescents, bring them, give voice to them above anything", she added.
The programming of the event follows on Thursday (October 23rd), with thematic tables and debates focused on the qualification of practices in the socio-educational system.