Abstract

LEAO, Geraldo Magela Pereira. Educate, occupy, patrol: the scope and limit of a program for poor youth. Perspectiva [online]. 2008, vol.26, n.01, pp.319-340. ISSN 0102-5473.

An evaluation of social policies for adolescents and young people in Brazil reveals an inflection since the second half of the 1990's. The programs be-carne more numerous and began to combine income transfer mechanisms with other objectives such as school insertion, support for the basic professional training of the youth served. This paper presents the results of a study about the realization of the Youth Social Development Agent program in Belo Horizonte. A qualitative study that included document anlysis, field observation and interviews with teachers and youth served at one of the program's centers, sought to understand how it functioned and its impacts as a social educational program.

Keywords : Youth Social Development Agent Project; Public Policies Social; Aspects of Youth.

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