Caracterización psicosocial de los jóvenes del barrio 20 de Julio. Municipio de Urrao. Suroeste Antioqueño

Abstract

One of the goals proposed in the Development Plan 2008 - 2011 "Antioquia for all hands on deck" 4 is to link the population in the collective construction of security and create conditions for coexistence and peace. In this sense the Peace Advisory Board of the Government today streamlines activities which promote the achievement of this aim, and with support from the University of San Buenaventura de Medellin, in the municipality of Urrao an investigation to characterize one was performed neighborhoods affected by the "violence and at risk of causing violence." This article is presented as a preview of the results of that investigation, which was conducted as a retrospective study in the July 20 Barrio Township Antioquia Urrao. The study involved families and young people from the neighborhood, plus five institutions that provide direct care to the community. The purpose of the study was to characterize the population of the district in order to identify current factors affecting the living, but for purposes of this paper provides the results found with young people be released. The results described in the juvenile characterization are grouped into: education levels of the population, labor level, characteristics of the families of young people, sexual and reproductive health, alcohol and psychoactive, social spaces, use of leisure time, expulsion and movement of young people. Finally, some conclusions and recommendations are presented for intervention

Keywords:

young social violence stigma consumption of alcohol psychoactive social exclusion coexistence

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