Mapping of Community Centers: production of meetings and networks

Abstract

This study has as its object the production of Community Centers (CECOs) in the intersectoral network, and has the city of Campinas as empirical field. The main objective was to identify, give visibility, and analyze the creation of Community Centers from a qualitative approach and mapping method. We adopted the Philosophy of Difference and the premises of Psychosocial Care as theoretical reference. From the results, the production of meetings stood out as the central aspect of creation of CECOs: meetings in the difference, between users with diverse age, gender, and diagnosis; meetings between professionals and users; meetings between different disciplines, sectors, and knowledge; meetings with different activities and meetings with the city.