ADOLESCENT CLINIC: EXPAND ACCESS AND AUTONOMY

INTRODUCTION Adolescence is a period of biopsychosocial transition. The integral approach to adolescent health is a challenge due to factors inherent in youth, families, the education of health professionals and the organization of health services and systems. GOALS Describe adolescent outpatient experience held weekly at the Cultural Center Sporting Goods (CUCA) in Barra do Ceará, outskirts of Fortaleza. METHODOLOGY The adolescent clinic is held due intersectoral activities of family health teams and the center of culture, sport and leisure (CUCA). It happens every week and access is guaranteed. Professionals of various categories perform the waiting room and the individual serving youth. Themes such as sexuality, unplanned Expecting, sexually transmitted diseases, life projects, youth rights and duties, protection of the environment are addressed using diverse and participatory methodologies. RESULTS The success of health education for teenage audiences has been traced by checking the curiosity and questioning restlessness, embodying words by the example of thinking and acting right, risk acceptance, rejection of any form of discrimination, recognition and assumption of identity. DISCUSSION Promote universal access and comprehensive approach were the pillars of the adolescent clinic. For such objective principles and guidelines were fundamental: accessibility, multidisciplinary work, intersectoral, community inclusion and promotion of autonomy.