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Public Defenders’ Office of the State of São Paulo, social participation and access to justice

ABSTRACT

The present study aims to analyze spaces for social participation and institutional alternatives to ensure access to justice to the rights of individuals with mental illness at the Public Defender’s Office of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It consists of an experience emergence report at said institution, conducted from 2012 to 2015, in which the authors performed semi-structured interviews with activists, professionals, and service users. For the scope of this article, we selected specific thematic content of the dialogues on social participation and access to justice. The resulting analysis identified four principal thematic axes: i) the presence of institutional spaces provided for in the regulation of social participation; ii) diverse social participation characteristics in the institution, according to the analyzed period; iii) construction of an action model to enable individual follow-up of people with mental illness; iv) monitoring, supervision, and follow-up initiatives for the implementation of mental health public policies.

KEYWORDS
Social participation; Mental health; Public Defender Legal Service

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