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The 2nd Mental Health Week in Maré, Rema Maré, was held between November 17th and 19th, 2022 to promote the debate on mental health and the importance of access to this right. The theme is fundamental for society, especially for the population of favelas, which lives with constant armed conflicts and absence of basic rights. Mental health was even more affected by the effects of the humanitarian crisis caused by the pandemic.

These and other issues led to the holding of the Mental Health Week,which had its first edition in 2021, entitled REMA MARÉ, when the unprecedented survey "Building the Barricades" was also launched, carried out in the 16 favelas of Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, between 2018 and 2020, with 1,411 residents.

This pioneering study shows that people in situations of violence are more vulnerable to mental suffering. Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression and suicide attempts are some of the common disorders. The Building the Barricades survey is the result of a partnership between Redes da Maré, the British organization People’s Palace Projects, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRS).

MENTAL HEALTH IN REDES DA MARÉ’S ACTIONS

In recent years, Redes da Maré has been deepening its knowledge of mental health through the development of projects and research. In serving the public, the institution incorporated psychology professionals into its various fronts, creating spaces for victims of violence and violations, but also broadening the perspective of technical teams on the various dimensions of residents' demands. In addition to direct care work, the institution has also worked with partnerships, building care networks with other institutions, with a strong dialogue with universities.

MARÉ’S MENTAL HEALTH GUIDE

A Guide with information for the population of Maré with the entire assistance network for residents offered in the territory and basic guidelines on the subject. The guide seeks to answer questions such as: what is mental health? How to identify the symptoms? Where and when to seek help? How to care for and preserve mental health?

II MENTAL HEALTH WEEK IN MARÉ

Recognizing the importance of continuing the debate on mental health in the territory, came the proposal to hold the II Mental Health Week in Maré in 2022, expanding and strengthening dialogues with professionals, public facilities and with the territory. To this end, we have a partnership with PPP and the Tide Setubal Foundation. This year, REMA MARÉ was dedicated to the legacy of Dr. Nise da Silveira and nurse and social worker Dona Ivone Lara. Both were key figures in the construction of criticism of Brazilian asylum psychiatry, developing experiences based on art, as a therapeutic process and in the fight for free care for people with some form of mental illness.

REMA MARÉ PUBLIC NOTICE

In order to bring more voices to the construction of the Mental Health Week, an announcement was launched inviting residents, professionals and organizations to submit proposals based on two axes: conversation circles and artistic workshops.

See the public notice

FOR THE II MENTAL HEALTH WEEK, THE SELECTED WERE:

Lucas Henrique Ferreira, Capoeira Teacher (Grupo Senzala de Capoeira)

(Workshop) Maré de Capoeira
The workshop aims to use capoeira as a tool and an object to play with. We believe that access to leisure, sport, art and culture is essential for maintaining mental health. The proposal is that anyone regardless of age, gender, race or previous experience can have fun and play through capoeira and its elements.

Layane Souza Marques

(Workshop) My body is also a city
The workshop intends to illustrate the way in which our body is crossed by the city's structural issues. Within our daily journeys, of the movements made every day to perform the same tasks, we naturalize the limits demarcated in our body. The workshop sets up the question: How to expand the limits of the body beyond the confinement that the city imposes? Instagram: @layane.prof

Makeba Bijus

Costume Jewelry Workshop - Makeba Bijus
Makeba Bijus is a job and income generation project of the Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and Other Drugs in partnership with the Adult Reception Unit, which works based on the principles of solidarity economy. The objective is to promote autonomy, social inclusion, solidarity, cooperation and a democratic space for exchanges where the participant is the protagonist. Instagram: @makebabijus

Clara Xavier, co-founder of Coletivo Obirin, student of Occupational Therapy-IFRJ and researcher on the Health of the Black Population

(Workshop) Literária Obirin The workshop seeks to create a safe space for a mediated conversation circle followed by therapeutic writing, aiming at rescuing possible resilience strategies in the daily lives of the participants. In order to promote exchange, part of the lives and excerpts from the works of black Brazilian women will be shared, whose trajectories accumulate inspiring productions and raise debate. Instagram: @nadaclaraa

Julia Bomfim, biologist, landscaper and environmental educator

(Workshop) Popular healing practices: The cultivation of medicinal plants in an herbal spiral, an ancient self-care technology
The workshop aims to collectively build a garden of medicinal plants, through an ancient technology called herbal spiral. An intelligent ecological garden for small spaces, capable of cultivating plant species of different environmental conditions in the same location. Instagram: @raizurbanaopaisagismo

Yasmin Oliveira Gutemberg, graduate student in Psychology

(Workshop) Recycling Memories - Connection and Affections
The "Recycling Memories - Connection and Affects" project was born from the "Psychosocial Interventions", where, as a group, an intervention project was set up with recyclable materials from the "Recycling Memories - Connection" project. The action proposes the assemble of toys from recyclables, stimulating creativity, communication and child development. Instagram: @yaz.oliveira e @gisellelopesv

Lígia Maria Monteiro, student of Theater Direction and multi-artist

(Workshop) It's us - Post-pandemic self-fiction
The workshop aims to reflect and produce authorial texts on events of recent pandemic years to understand the consequences in the present. Theatrical techniques will be explored to build a look at yourself and the other in the post-pandemic period. Instagram: @alijamonteiro

Thamires Kelly Andrade Barbosa, psychologist graduated from UFF

(Workshop) Experiences - art as health production
The proposal of her workshop is to bring an activity of interaction with some modalities of encounter with art and the potential of this crossroads for mental health. Instagram: @tk.andrade

Simonne Alves, graduated in Dance (UFRJ), PhD student and Master in Social Anthropology (PPGAS/MN/UFRJ)

(Workshop) Women in the wind - Dance as a reunion
The activity thinks about how body arts help in the well-being and strengthening of favela life stories, articulating ancestry, territory and popular culture as foundations present in the formulation of subjectivities. Instagram: @rubiisi

SELECTED FOR THE DIALOGUES:

Amanda Dias, Danielle Varella and Sabrina Fortunato

The art of living in my skin
The conversation circle proposes a reflection on the issues between the crossings of everyday life and forms of mental health care, even if implicit, in addition to varied artistic expressions. To represent the group, the symbology Adinkra Ananse, also known as "Spider Web", was chosen, carrying the meaning of creativity, wisdom and also about the complexities of life. Instagram: @amndd_ (Amanda Dias), @dani_varella (Danielle Varella) e @brinafoipromato (Sabrina Fortunato).

University, Resistance and Human Rights (URDIR)

Body and the Art of Care - propositions to think about care and mental health strategies
The project's actions aim to produce mental health care and promotion practices for individuals impacted by institutional and state violence - mainly black people, women, favela and periphery residents, militants and human rights defenders. Guided by a clinical-political perspective, the experience is constituted in the articulation and partnerships with collectives and organizations that belong to the territories. Instagram: @urdir.uerj

Cultural Strategies in Manguinhos - mental health care and the protagonism of favela residents
The conversation circle invites representatives of cultural initiatives from Manguinhos to discuss their experiences, trajectories and the context of cultural production. Promotion and care in mental health and its relationship with culture and citizenship will be discussed. The circle is organized by the People's Palace Projects/Queen Mary University of London (PPP/QMUL), by the School of Social Sciences of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (CPDOC/FGV) and by the Laboratory of Studies and Research in Mental Health and Psychosocial Care of Fiocruz (LAPS/Fiocruz).

Cristiane Martins, Joice Lopes, Lidiane Santos and Ana Claudia Araujo
About Pandemic and Mental Health in Favelas
Formed by academic researchers who live in Cidade de Deus favela, in Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with academics from Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA and from other universities. Instagram: @construindojuntoscdd

Fabio Viccent

(Workshop) “Literature and mental health: benefits, resilience and awareness
The workshop aims to bring discussions about the importance of literature for mental health, approaching and pointing out, above all, books with the theme and representative characters. And also, about how literature has changed and how people have become protagonists in the field, either within stories or creating them, bringing spaces that were previously denied. Instagram: @fabioviccent