Composing a watercolour of the lives of street adolescents

This book aims to analyse the lives of street adolescents in the municipality of Vitória-ES. The research was based on an experience of working as a psychologist on the team of the Street Social Approach Project of the Vitória City Council. This study produced a series of questions regarding the place occupied by these adolescents in the city, and the place occupied by the city in their lives. Oral history was used as a methodological resource, which made it possible to clarify the individual trajectories of these adolescents, reconstructing history through their multiple versions, capturing the logic of the boy-street relationship through the meaning expressed in the actor's language. An analysis was made of the narratives constructed from the oral testimony of four research subjects, based on the theoretical perspective of Institutional Analysis in an attempt to denaturalise the social places occupied by street adolescents. The conclusion is that assistance needs to get closer to the existential reality of these individuals and believe that they can be other things too.