Abstract

ANSARA, Soraia  and  TAFFARELLO, Ingrid Matzembacher Stocker. The psychosocial networking: an experience in the city of Cajamar. Pesqui. prát. psicossociais [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.1, pp. 101-114. ISSN 1809-8908.

Based on the theoretical framework of Community Psychology, this article analyses, an experience of a networking held in the city of Cajamar for two years (2007 - 2009) with the participation of different social actors, including government representatives (directors: culture, sports, health, social welfare, civil defense) and civil society (neighborhood associations, child´s pastoral, users of social assistance), representatives of companies and of the commerce. The initiative of this work aimed to consolidate the deployment of Reference Centers for Social Assistance (CRAS) in order to break with practices marked by paternalism and clientelism. The experience reported here shows that participatory methodologies, which involve the target population of social programs, promote the construction of a strong, conscious and critical citizenship, as proposed by Montero (2004), but requires that people have the power of directing these actions, rather than letting them be in the hands of the government.

Keywords : Networking; Psychosocial practices; Community psychology; Participatory methodologies; Community empowerment.

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