Protagonismo juvenil: análise do projeto Rap da Saúde na perspectiva de jovens e adolescentes participantes da turma de 2018

Abstract

This work addresses the Adolescents and Young Promoters Network project of Health (Rap da Saúde), of the Municipal Health Department of Rio de Janeiro, as a strategy to promote youth protagonism, from the perspective of their participants. To this end, a documentary research was carried out in the archives of the project, including 150 course completion works by young people participating in the 2018 class, in which they evaluate such training experience. The material empirical study allowed us to rescue the institutional trajectory of the Rap da Saúde project, since its implementation in 2007 to the present day, as well as situating the profile sociodemographic of the young participants of the 2018 class and their dynamics of acting in the territories in favor of health promotion. the analytical perspective adopted sought to value youth reports on personal learning and professional achieved in Rap da Saúde, the difficulties faced and the how much such group experience and in contact with health professionals and various social institutions allowed them to become more self-confident young people, inserted in their communities and attentive to the needs of their peers. In short, the work reflects on the process of personal maturation and as a citizen of young people who had the opportunity to be protagonists of activities of health promotion in their respective communities in the municipality of Rio de January, facing the challenge of building paths for an intervention creative with themes that challenge contemporary youth, such as racism, sexual and reproductive rights, political participation, alcohol use and other drugs, violence, and so on.