Teenagers and Young Adults. Social-educational Measure of Apprehension. Black and Decolonial Feminism. Right of Participation. Locus of Speech.

This research's main objective was to analyze Projeto Lugar de Fala's (“Project Locus of Speech”) development, implemented in Comunidade de Atendimento Socioeducativa (CASE - Social-educational Service Community) for females of Salvador, as a possible methodological strategy for guarantee of hearing and the rights of teenagers in taking part in the execution of their social-methodological measure of apprehension. For so, I approached the concept of “Locus of Speech” by the theoretical contributions of Black and Decolonial Feminism; I presented Projeto Lugar de Fala’s implementation process and its steps in Female CASE; I pointed out the potentialities and the limitations of the implementation and development of Projeto Lugar de Fala related to the dynamics and institutional roles; I also discussed practical aspects related to locus of speech as a guarantee of right to be heard and to take part in the social-educational service, related to the making of the Plano Individual de Atendimento (PIA - Service Individual Plan) and the Relatório de Avaliação da Medida (RAM - Measure Evaluation Report). I did a case study and used participant observation and documentary analysis as data collection techniques. Projeto Lugar de Fala was executed in Female CASE between September 2019 and January 2020, by term of cooperation between Defensoria Pública do Estado da Bahia and Fundação da Criança e do Adolescente (FUNDAC), an agency responsible for the management of adolescent service policy in observance of social- educational measures of apprehension in the state of Bahia. I identified that the predominant profile of female teenagers and young adults in the social-educational system of Bahia is of low-educated poor black girls that present age-grading distortion. I concluded that teenagers and young adults observing the social-educational measure of apprehension don’t take active and effective part of the guiding documents of the social-educational measure, either PIA or RAM. Therefore, there is violation of the right of participation and a disagreement with Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, with Law n.12.594 (of 18 January 2012) and other national and international legal instruments about this subject. Finally, I point out that the concept of locus of speech, joined with the right of participation, can be used as a strategy to promote effective hearing of female teenager and young adults observing the social-educational measure of apprehension. Allied to that, I reinforce the importance of the institutionalization of projects like Projeto Lugar de Fala, emphasizing that the accomplishment of these actions, in the units dynamics, can positively influence in the execution of the social-educative measure of apprehension and the making of the guiding documents, guaranteeing an effective hearing of teenagers and young adults.