Recursos e tecnologias em Terapia Ocupacional Social: ações com jovens pobres na cidade

The METUIA team from the Occupational Therapy Department of the Federal University of Sao
\nCarlos – UFSCar has been elaborating procedures and resources, which have produced contributions to the action of
\noccupational therapy based on a local and communal dimension, aiming at a locally rooted technical contribution and
\ndirected to face the challenges of the social field. The territory notion adopted presupposes historical, economic, social
\nand cultural dimensions that contextualize a given geographical area where the therapeutic and occupational action
\nis developed. We have been dealing with questions related to the poor urban youth and working in the production
\nof social technologies (understood as products, techniques or replicable methodologies developed in interaction
\nwith the community, and that represent alternatives for social transformation), which have been able to foster new
\npossibilities of action, integrating and articulating actions of macro and micro social scope. This article presents discussions on Workshops of Dynamics, Activities and Projects; Individual and Territorial Follow-up; Articulation
\nof Resources in the Social Field; and Dynamization of the Social Care Network. We support a continuous and
\ncritical reflection on the labor process, assuming the technical, ethical and political dimensions that comprise the
\nprofessional qualification of occupational therapists. We also advocate that the practical and conceptual existence
\nof these technologies promotes actions associated with the social question of the lives of these young individuals,
\nseeking the expansion of equality, recognition of differences, and their space in the public sphere, so that more
\nparticipation can be produced with more freedom, autonomy and solidarity.