20 years of “Rede Cidadã”: education involving mind, body and emotions in the work for social inclusion (01)

This article aims to present a report of professional experience that highlights the Civil Society Organization (CSO) Rede Cidadã, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2022. The CSO, in its service of social inclusion of young people in the market, has sought to work with the integration of work, called socio-emotional, in its process of supporting young people, people with disabilities, the elderly, homeless people and young people in socio-educational measures, its target audience. The OSC is a Social Assistance Entity that develops programs and projects in a continuous, permanent and planned way, bringing together civil society, companies, public bodies, social organizations and volunteers, to bring solutions in generating work and income. With the slogan “life and work, a single value”, the CSO bets on socio-emotional training, oriented towards the development of skills, as a structuring element in its path. It consists of an experiential educational process aimed at expressing personal, social and professional identity, inspired by several methodologies arising from Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health (PICS). The focus on individual transformation seeks to contribute to broader social change. Due to the social relevance of the work, also demonstrated by the numbers achieved, which has already hired more than 90,000 people, it has been arousing the interest of studies, and it sought to establish a partnership with the Public University, together with the AfeTAR Laboratory, a Technological Development Unit (UDT) located at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). From this meeting, this article was born, which estimates, as a result, to discuss the work of the CSO, using materials published on the internet, reports of official activities of the institution and the report of the founders. We conclude on the relevance and need for further studies to highlight their work processes and methods.

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