Orientadores sociais voluntários no programa Liberdade Assistida de Belo Horizonte: contextualização e experiência

Abstract

The present research investigated the participationof volunteers that fulfill the function of social advisors of teenagers in serving a socioeducational measure of assisted freedom along the Program for Assisted Freedom developed by the City Hall of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We begun from the presuppose that this experience is invested with an educative character, resulting in new knowledge and new practices, with important subjective effects for the volunteers that participate in it. Through this research, it was possible to contextualize the origin of action in free environment on the laws addressing childhood and youth, where we have identified the origin of assisted freedom, as well as its main characteristics, what have allowed us to problematize the role of the volunteer on the fulfillment of the function of social advisor for the teenagers. The research also revealed that, even though the significant citizenship by itself does not grant a new volunteering, when added to new terms as solidarity, tolerance, livingtogether, as it happens on the Program for Assisted Freedom, it opens space for the development of a new experience of living together with the other that delineates the possibility for open effectively the horizon of the subject for the acknowledgment of difference and singularity (BIRMAN, 2001), constituting an educative process that results in new knowledge andnew learning for the volunteers that participate in it, promoting, also, devices of social inclusion (GOHN, 2010).