PROJECT CHILD -TALKS

Early childhood is a period of great importance and must be accompanied in different ways, children should be treated as subjects of rights (citizens) and as a priority group, in view of the biopsychosocial development stage, whose peculiarities give them special and immediate needs according to the dynamics of development. In accordance with these principles, professionals from different fields of knowledge, for example, in health care, play a primary role. The project-child talks began operations in 2014 in the downloaded from Glicerio region, with children living in the substandard housing, with high social vulnerability. The objective was to give a voice to children and promote the inclusion of suggestions for improving the quality of life. The methodology was the approach of children through the mediation of reading, entertaining workshops to hear them and through their particular look to develop actions and politics to promote physical and mental health and reduce the violation of children‘s rights. The result was the realization of the transformation of housing areas, the construction of an emotional map of the region, the child‘s relationship improves with public spaces such as school, health center, squares and collective areas, children‘s empowerment with the directed listening, improvement of physical and mental health with the mediation of reading, health education and developed based jokes of Brazilian popular culture.