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- Title
Family reintegration of children and adolescents in foster care in Brazilian municipalities with different population sizes.
- Authors
Iannelli, Andrea M.; Assis, Simone Gonçalves; Pinto, Liana Wenersbach
- Abstract
The scope of this article is to present and analyze data from Brazilian foster care services for children/adolescents from the perspective of family reintegration. It also seeks to support the implementation of public policies in order to provide effective reintegration in accordance with the differing local contexts. It uses data from 1,157 municipalities that have foster care services. The methodology takes into account the data collection of 2,624 Brazilian centers and 36,929 children and adolescents in care. The growing number of children/adolescents in care is in line with the increase in population size: 8.4 per small city; 60 per large city and 602.4 per metropolis. With respect to care residence in a different municipality there are varying indices: 12.4% in metropolises and 33.6% in small cities, revealing the absence of centers close to family units in the smaller communities. Regarding the activities promoted together with families, it was seen that there are still units that do not perform any activities, which runs contrary to Brazilian law. It is clear that policies for the child/adolescent in foster care centers need to consider the capacity of the municipality in accordance with population size to implement support actions for families to assist in family reintegration.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; FOSTER home care; CITIES &; towns; FAMILIES; TEENAGERS; GOVERNMENT policy; POPULATION
- Publication
Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1413-8123
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1413-81232014201.19872013