Mariana Hora, social worker at the Regional Council of Social Work (CRESS), also highlighted the relevance of the meeting for professionals in their professional practice. “We work in different spaces where pregnant women seek help. Therefore, as a social worker, I observe that we need to understand how voluntary judicial benefit programs work in order to properly guide, guide and assist these women in their process,” the social worker emphasized. On Wednesday (27), the Recife Women`s Hospital (HMR) received the psychosocial team of the 2nd Court of Children and Youth of Recife (2nd PLEI), which is responsible for the creation of the Legal Mother Program. In order to disseminate the new Admissions Program guidelines to women who express their intention to give their children up for adoption, the afternoon of dialogue brought together coordinators, doctors, social workers, psychologists and nurses to unify the process of responsible delivery, referral and donation through the Children and Youth Court. The program team will attend the celebration, in addition to the President of the Court of Justice of Pernambuco (TJPE), Judge José Fernandes de Lemos, the Coordinator of Children and Youth of Pernambuco, Judge Luiz Carlos de Barros Figueiredo, the Judge of the 2nd Court of Children and Youth, Élio Braz, the Mayor of Recife, João da Costa, and the Municipal Minister of Health, Gustavo Couto. Representatives of the Public Prosecutor`s Office, public defenders, the guardianship council and the State Government are also expected. The Legal Mother Program welcomes women who express their intention to give their children up for adoption before or after the birth of the child and invests in promoting women`s autonomy and respecting the choices they make. This Friday, 6 p.m., at 10 a.m., the beginning of the program will take place at the Polyclinic and Maternity of Professor Barros Lima in Avenida Norte, 6465, Casa Amarela. On this occasion, an agreement was signed between the judiciary of Pernambuco and the city of Recife on the training and awareness of health professionals on this issue. The Mãe Legal program, developed by the Center for Special Curatorship and Family Protection (Nuce) of the 2nd Recife Child and Youth Court of the Pernambuco Court (TJPE), promoted a dialogue wheel on Monday morning (18/7) focused on legal procedures for the voluntary surrender of children for adoption.
The main objective of the event was to strengthen the State children`s and young people`s network for the harmonization of measures guaranteeing women`s rights with regard to the voluntary surrender of children for adoption, in order to guarantee the right provided for in the Statute for Children and Adolescents (ECA). This allows women to register with the courts, thus formalizing the interest of respecting voluntary childbirth, citing the guarantee of confidentiality around this law. The Recife Health Secretariat, through the Coordination of Community Women`s Health Policy (SEAB), is pleased to invite you to participate in the webinar “Legal Mother Program: 12 years breaking paradigms” promoted by the Second Court of Children and Youth of Recife, Court of Justice of the State of Pernambuco (TJPE), in collaboration with the School of Health of Recife (ESR / SEGTES). In online format, the webinar will take place on Monday, October 26, 2021, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. via the Google Meet platform. The event schedule can be checked below. Dialogue wheel participants received an informative manual on the Legal Mother Program and the book Responsible Delivery of Children for Adoption – The experience of the 2nd Court of Childhood and Youth of Recife.
The book, curated by Judge Élio Braz in collaboration with Aeldja de Carvalho, Ana Cláudia Souza, Ana Cláudia de Melo, Fabiana Romão and Fábio Monsão da Silva, was edited and published by Esmape in 2019. The presentation and foreword were made by the current President of the TJPE, Judge Luiz Carlos Figueirêdo, and the Dean of the Court, Judge Jones Figueirêdo. The book is dedicated to all the women accompanied by the Legal Mother Program who, in a gesture of courage and protagonism, manage to break with social expectations and constraints and to allow themselves to question their desire to exercise the motherhood of a child they give birth. Make a constructive comment on this document. The promoter of the project, Ana da Fonte, who was also present, spoke of the need to resume discussions on the rights of pregnant women who wish to give their children up for adoption and who have already guaranteed these rights in the ECA. “Debates like this allow our institutions to make further progress in guaranteeing the rights of these women and children, as well as their respective legal protections,” the prosecutor said. 3 p.m. – The different stories in the birth of a newborn for adoption 2:30 p.m. – The role of the health network in welcoming and bringing cases before the courts of women and their families who express the intention to give a newborn up for adoption can be recorded by the professionals of the Network for the Protection and Care of Women and Children.