Given the importance placed on participation and empowerment in global health initiatives, the perspective of young people with disabilities has emerged as a vital field of study. This critical ethnographic study gained insight into the perspectives of adolescents with disabilities aged 12 to 18 years who were affiliated with a community-based rehabilitation program in the urban slums of North India. The purpose of this research was to highlight the collective voices of adolescents with disabilities about their rehabilitation challenges, to explore how the culture influenced the rehabilitation challenges faced by adolescents, and to support collaborative work among adolescents with and without disabilities that would inform organizational activities. Fieldwork was conducted from January to May 2005 and October 2006 to March 2007 with 21 adolescents with disabilities, 11 adolescents without disability, and 10 community-based rehabilitation team members. Multiple data collection methods were utilized to ensure that participants could comfortably express their views. A conceptual framework called the ‘Adolescent Group Empowerment Pyramid’ was developed that illustrates one process for empowering adolescents with disabilities and their peers without disabilities within a community setting. Group empowerment involves adolescents with disabilities working towards assuming greater ownership over their rehabilitation while collaborating with their peers. The ‘group’ concept provided the foundation for the framework because adolescents viewed the group setting as enjoyable and effective. Three areas associated with meaningful group empowerment included: group participation, group demonstration, and group recognition. Three external support factors and ten areas for nurturing the group empowerment process are also described. Participants promoted a more liberal approach to empowering adolescents that embraced the notion of collaboration (rather than competition), interdependence (rather than independence), shared benefits (rather than individual gain), and the interaction of community groups. This approach promotes a harmonious balance between empowerment and the community, rather than an aggressive approach to gaining power over or from other marginalized individuals. Group empowerment, achieved through enabling group-centered occupations, encourages adolescents to collectively work for social and occupational justice. To ensure the sustainability of community-based rehabilitation initiatives, programs must be aware of personally meaningful factors that empower and maintain the interest of the target population. / Thesis (Ph.D, Rehabilitation Science) -- Queen's University, 2009-08-05 15:30:32.786

Submitted by Cristiane Chim (cristiane.chim@ucpel.edu.br) on 2018-07-04T12:31:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Flúvia Ribeiro Bastos.pdf: 2083421 bytes, checksum: 964efb0398245b0de15c5796e4357353 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-04T12:31:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flúvia Ribeiro Bastos.pdf: 2083421 bytes, checksum: 964efb0398245b0de15c5796e4357353 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES# / #2075167498588264571# / #600 / Social protection aimed at children/adolescents with disabilities is being built through the struggle political movement for the recognition of the subjects with disabilities as full citizens’ rights. In Brazil, especially after the promulgation of the Statute of Child and Adolescent, a significant advance in the legislation with regard to establish, from the doctrine of integral protection, the rights of the juvenile population and develop inclusive policies. Through laws and regulations, Institutional Childcare Services (ICSs) intended for the protection of children/adolescents who have had rights broken, it passed to adhere to the principle of respect for diversity and nondiscrimination, that is, the childcare must be offered in environments that respect and attend the human diversity. The institutional childcare is responsible mainly to provides to children/teenagers complete access to all fundamental rights, regardless of its features, using the resources offered by the municipal public policy, with the purpose of ensuring their integrity. In view of the importance and the challenge of achieving protection of children/teenagers in front of a backdrop of retraction of rights and social policies, the study aims to analyze the special social protection offered to children/adolescents with disabilities received in ICSs, objecting to identify difficulties and potentialities of effective social rights in an inclusive perspective. To achieve the objective was combinated a documental research and a field research with qualitative approach, guided by the dialectical critic method, in three municipalities ICSs of Rio Grande do Sul. The empirical data were collected through semistructured questionnaire and interviews applied in people who are directly involved in protection of children/adolescents with disabilities received in childcare. Eleven subjects participated. The investigation examined since the beginning until the ending of ICs time, it checking the access to rights of children/adolescents with disabilities and the incorporation of the principles contained in the "Technical Guidelines: childcare for children and adolescents", among them the guaranteed access and respect for diversity and non-discrimination. The research found that: a) social protection fails to fully accomplishment, because the public investment are insufficient to meet the particular needs of each child/adolescent; b) the ICSs are still having your organized structure from the model of social integration; c) the ICCs is an essential service and protection, despite the difficulties, can facilitate access to social rights of welcomed with disabilities; d) the incorporation of the principle of respect for diversity and non-discrimination promotes inclusive processes, because the interaction between children/adolescents of different ages and circumstances allows learnings about the importance to respect and live together with diversity. Finally, the study highlights that, despite the many challenges, the ICSs presents itself as a place to promote the appreciation of differences, because if it is organized on the principle of human diversity, can be recognized as a space for building new social practices, which it will be able to strengthen the process of building an inclusive society. / A proteção social destinada a crianças/adolescentes com deficiência está sendo construída através do movimento político de luta pelo reconhecimento dos sujeitos com deficiência como cidadãos plenos de direitos. No Brasil, principalmente após a promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, nota-se um avanço significativo da legislação no que respeita a consagrar, a partir da doutrina da proteção integral, os direitos da população infanto-juvenil e desenvolver políticas inclusivas. Por meio de leis e normas, os Serviços de Acolhimento Institucional (SAIs) destinados à proteção de crianças/adolescentes que tiveram direitos violados passaram a aderir ao princípio de respeito à diversidade e não discriminação, ou seja, o acolhimento deve ser ofertado em ambientes que respeitem e atendam a diversidade humana. O acolhimento institucional tem como principal função prover às crianças/adolescentes acolhidas, independentemente de suas características, acesso a todos os direitos fundamentais, utilizando os recursos oferecidos pelas políticas públicas municipais, com o propósito de zelar por sua integridade. Tendo em vista a importância e o desafio de concretizar a proteção de crianças/adolescentes diante de um cenário de retração de direitos e de políticas sociais, a tese teve o objetivo de analisar a proteção social especial ofertada para crianças/adolescentes com deficiência acolhidas em SAIs, a fim de identificar dificuldades e potencialidades da efetivação dos direitos sociais na perspectiva inclusiva. Para alcançar o objetivo combinou-se uma pesquisa documental e uma pesquisa de campo, de abordagem qualitativa, norteada pelo método críticodialético, em três SAIs de municípios do Rio Grande do Sul. Os dados empíricos foram coletados por meio de questionário e entrevistas com roteiro semiestruturado aplicadas com as pessoas que estão diretamente envolvidas na proteção destinada a crianças/adolescentes com deficiência acolhidas. Onze sujeitos participaram. A investigação analisou desde o ingresso até o momento do desligamento do SAI, verificando o acesso aos direitos das crianças/adolescentes com deficiência e a incorporação dos princípios contidos nas “Orientações Técnicas: serviços de acolhimento para crianças e adolescentes”, entre eles a garantia de acesso e respeito à diversidade e não discriminação. A pesquisa constatou que: a) a proteção social não consegue se materializar de forma integral, pois os investimentos públicos são insuficientes para o atendimento das necessidades particulares de cada criança/adolescente; b) os SAIs continuam tendo sua estrutura organizada a partir do modelo da integração social; c) o SAI é um serviço essencial de proteção e, apesar das dificuldades, consegue viabilizar acesso a direitos sociais dos acolhidos com deficiência; d) a incorporação do princípio de respeito à diversidade e não discriminação fomenta processos inclusivos, pois a interação entre crianças/adolescentes de diferentes idades e particularidades permite aprendizados sobre a importância de respeitar e conviver com a diversidade. Por fim, destaca-se que, apesar dos inúmeros desafios, o SAI apresenta-se enquanto um local rico para promover a valorização das diferenças, pois se for organizado com o princípio da diversidade humana pode ser reconhecido como espaço de construção de novas práticas sociais, o que poderá fortalecer o processo de construção de uma sociedade inclusiva.