Desafios e perspectivas de inserção no Programa Ação Jovem/SP

Abstract

The focus of this research is the Programa Ação Jovem/SP as a possibility of social inclusion of young people between the ages of fifteen at twenty-four, using as inclusion strategy the return and / or stay in school, encouraging the completion of high school the promotion of complementary actions, access to job training and initiation in the labor market. The question posed for reflection is: What are the challenges and the prospect of social integration of young people and declared effective by the documents Programa Ação Jovem/SP? It is observed the Programa Ação Jovem/SP as a strategy to face the consequences imposed by the poverty, the academic performance of students as well as answer an improved educational conditions. This research is of great importance, as the study addresses the challenges and prospects of the program linked to education in search of further analysis about its real effectiveness. In this sense, the general objective of this research is to reflect the implications of the Programa Ação Jovem/SP as a means of social inclusion through access to work and encouraging the return, staying in school and encouraging the completion of high school. And therefore, the specific objectives are intended to be: to analyze the planning process Programa Ação Jovem/SP, given its multisectoral nature and resources for its operation; analyze the access indicators and permanence of young people in the program; identify educational activities, modalities and characteristics of the training offered under the program; assess the number of young people excluded from the program for non-compliance with conditionality’s; check on the official program, the proposed professionalization of youth and their integration into the labor market and identify youth inclusion indicators in the world of formal employment and through other ways, such as in associations and cooperatives. The research used qualitative methodology; the data source is the literature and documents of the main authors who discuss the issue, documents relating to the laws, resolutions relevant to the topic, sites and monographs. For this, it addresses the concept and state settings, neoliberalism and its effect on public social policies in Brazil, especially in education and social assistance. The study includes a reflection on the social processes of youth constitution, such as the vulnerable youth, the process of implementing public policies for young people in Brazil and the challenges the Brazilian youth. Finally analyzes the document creation Programa Ação Jovem/SP, contextualizes the youth policy of the São Paulo state government and the region of Presidente Prudente, relating to federal actions for social inclusion of young people in the implementation period of the Programa Ação Jovem/SP. The results show little investment the State of São Paulo government for the youth policy, lack of integration between departments involved in the implementation of the program, young difficulty in entering the labor market, structural unemployment crisis.