Visit no. 5-2015
Date: 2015.09.16
Location: Centro Educativo Navarro Paiva [Educational Centrer Navarro Paiva]
(Lisbon)
Subject: Operating conditions. Spatial and temporal confinement, namely the personal educational projects and the involvement of public and private entities in the social reintegration of young persons. Therapeutic programs, in particular in the area of
mental health, as well as psychological assistance models. Follow-up of young persons
detained after their release. Infrastructure. Administrative organisation of processes of
youths detained and recruitment processes and training of technical personnel
In the morning of September 16th, the NPM visited the Navarro de Paiva Educational
Centre, in Lisbon.
The educational centre displays two residential buildings: the infrastructure for the
boys (three floors) is divided into the welcoming unit (for newly arrived or in early stages
of acquisition of skills) and the progression unit (for young people whose behavioural
evolution suggests empowerment); the women’s sector is located in a single location, due
to the reduced number of young women institutionalized and given the lack of alternative
space.
Despite the excellent conservation of the buildings, two aspects should be underlined:
on one side there is no fire emergency plan and the alarm and alert mechanisms are not
installed, and, on the other side, the fire extinguishers expiration date had been exceeded.
Finally, it was concluded that the educational centre is not prepared for people with
disabilities.
The young students are still below the minimum school leaving age, with the possibility of attending classes or professional training outside the Centre, in open or semi-open
regime, depending on their progress and assessment.
All the young people have a family physician assigned, and they are all enrolled in the
Operational Health Unit of Sete Rios. The program «Aparece» is also operating here, in
the area of primary health care, improving the delivery of health services to adolescents
aged 12 to 24 years.
Also, the family doctor goes to the centre on a monthly basis, attending young students who are prevented from leaving the facility.
From June 1st, 2015, the educational centre began to rely on the collaboration of a
nurse three times a week (v.g., mornings). In addition, the educational centre develops an
individual psychotherapeutic intervention for young people in need, after initial diagnostic evaluation.
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