[Jakairá project: the adolescent parents as authors and actors of their own future]. / Proyecto Jakairá: adolescentes madres y padres como autores y actores de su propio devenir.

The purpose of the following paper is to present a project developed within the framework of collaboration between two foundations, Fundación Kaleidos (Argentina) and Children Action (Switzerland). The aim of this project is to developed diverse programs to support and empower adolescent mothers and fathers as well as their children. Adolescents whose rights are very often not respected and who find themselves alone having to confront the negative prejudices of the adults around them regarding the parenthood, which they now face. The objectives of the programs are as follows: the promotion of the well-being of the adolescents and the development of a personal project around education or work, the promotion of early child development of their infants, to address the problems around gender inequality and the promotion of an intersectional network between distinct sectors of society (public, private and NGO). By means of an integral program, we aim to tackle the diverse aspects of the lives of the adolescents in question and their children. Their rights and their environment are key to developing the maximum potential of each individual and their families.

[Endemic social exclusion and early development: "made in Chacarita"]. / Exclusión social endémica y desarrollo temprano: "made in Chacarita"

My aim is to introduce in this article a project that two foundations are developing in Chacarita, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires City, heading to provide help and support to adolescent parents under social deprivation conditions and/or undergoing emotional problems. It is an action project embracing different strategies to work on the prevention of infant psychopathological disorders as well as the parenting process. The aspects on early development on children are specially emphasized describing the interventions to promote the development and the care of the protective factors, the resilience, as well as to approach the risk factors. This is illustrated threw a clinical case.

Proyecto Jakairá: adolescentes madres y padres como autores y actores de su propio devenir / [Jakairá project: the adolescent parents as authors and actors of their own future].

The purpose of the following paper is to present a project developed within the framework of collaboration between two foundations, Fundación Kaleidos (Argentina) and Children Action (Switzerland). The aim of this project is to developed diverse programs to support and empower adolescent mothers and fathers as well as their children. Adolescents whose rights are very often not respected and who find themselves alone having to confront the negative prejudices of the adults around them regarding the parenthood, which they now face. The objectives of the programs are as follows: the promotion of the well-being of the adolescents and the development of a personal project around education or work, the promotion of early child development of their infants, to address the problems around gender inequality and the promotion of an intersectional network between distinct sectors of society (public, private and NGO). By means of an integral program, we aim to tackle the diverse aspects of the lives of the adolescents in question and their children. Their rights and their environment are key to developing the maximum potential of each individual and their families.