Public policies in open scenes of crack use

The hotels in the De Braços Abertos programme as an experience of a consensual and participatory environment

Bibliographic Data

ID2489345
AuthorsYgor Diego Delgado Alves (0000-0002-6730-3255, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, corresponding author), P P G Pereira (0000-0002-0298-2138, Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
Year2024
Volume21
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412024v21d503
OpenAlexW4403606628
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412024000100503
LanguageEN
References cited12

The Programa 'De Braços Abertos' (PBA) [Open Arms Programme] was planned and implemented by authorities of the city of São Paulo, between 2014 and 2016, and provided for the accommodation of its beneficiaries in hotels. We perceived a lack of specific research on the ways this programme was operated. Through an ethnography and the construction of close relationships with the teams of professionals working in these hotels, we were able to verify: (1) the constant attempts by the programme's agents to develop bonds with the beneficiaries, (2) the skilful, attentive listening to the demands and daily stories lived by the beneficiaries, and (3) the problem-solving efforts in a consensual and participatory environment. In contrast to life on the streets, along with the professional intervention, the new context provided by PBA hotels has, in many cases, paved the way for changes in the drug users' relationship with crack consumption to a more controlled pattern

Business · Citizen journalism · Political science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Law · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Youth, Drugs, and Violence

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