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with the ethical and moral values of Cuban
society.
Children and adolescents in situations of social
disadvantage
As it is known, Cuban children benefit
equally from the actions taken in favor of their
development, however, a part of it, due to
socioeconomic, family and other
circumstances, require special attention and
social protection. It refers to children in
situations of social disadvantage.
The educational institutions in the communities
as part of their social order, carry out
preventive educational activities through
different programs. In most cases, it is the
teachers who for the first time identify the
children at risk, through the use of diagnoses
and characterizations.
Within the educational sector's strategy
for preventive educational work in the
communities has been an important
contribution to the coordination and integration
of the actions of the Council of Attention to
Minors and the educational programs "Educate
Your Child" and "For Life."
Its common objective is to preserve and
defend the rights of children, adolescents and
young people, and within that, the priority of
those in a situation of social disadvantage, with
behavioral disorders or dissociated from the
system.
Schools have been gaining a central role in this
work as coordinating centers of educational
actions, starting from the conception of
strengthening their role as the most important
cultural centers of the community.
The group of children in situations of
social disadvantage also includes those who
require this attention for presenting behavior
disorders, this activity is shared by the Ministry
of Education and the Ministry of Interior, carry
out prevention, evaluation and re-education
actions, as Cuban law regulates the care of
these children, not only through the judicial
and criminal courts of their mothers, guardian
parents, but with an emphasis on their sociopsychological
orientation and work with the
family.
This creates different care systems such as the
Centers of Orientation and Diagnosis; Centers
of Evaluation, Analysis and Guidance of
Minors, among others. These centers have
teams of professionals and specialists from
different disciplines, who study their problems,
and look for alternative solutions to them.
All children with behavioral disorders
are linked to the teaching process of the
National Education System, when they leave
the specialized centers, they are offered care
aimed at their social reintegration and the
follow-up of their reeducation.
Having as one of its objectives to prevent and
correct the behavioral disorders and other risk
situations of these groups, since 1987 and
through legislative regulation, the
Commissions of Prevention and Social
Attention were created as coordinating
mechanism of the Government for the
prevention and social attention in Cuba.
The impact of the economic crisis
The impact of the economic crisis and
the policies applied to its confrontation have
generally affected the social situation of the
country, although its effect has been
differentiated in some areas of services and in
certain sectors of the population. As for the
former, there are spheres where, with some
affectations, the achievements are maintained,
such as education, health and social security
(Díaz, E.1994). In other areas, such as food and
housing, the greatest difficulties are
concentrated. In relation to the second, there
are sectors of society that have felt more
strongly the effects of the crisis and which