Factores relacionados al acogimiento prolongado de los niños, niñas y adolescentes con declaratoria de adoptabilidad de una institución de acogida del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, en el año 2022.

Abstract

The main objective of this research work was to analyze the factors related to the prolonged foster care of children and adolescents with a declaration of adoptability from a foster institution in the Metropolitan District of Quito, in order to reveal to society, as co-responsible for the guarantee and protection of their rights, the reality that this population lives. The methodology used in the study followed a qualitative, descriptive approach, based on deductive and non-experimental methods. The sample consisted of 13 children and adolescents (NNA) who already have their declaration of adoptability and who still remain under the protection measure of institutional foster care in the Metropolitan District of Quito. The techniques used for the collection of the study were the survey, applied to the 13 children and adolescents of a foster entity, through its technical team, in the same way, the interview in which an educator, the psychologist, the social worker participated from the same institution, as well as an official from the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES). The main conclusion was obtained that the children who remain in the reception institution are between the ages of 11 and 17, whose institutionalization exceeds an average of ten and a half years; among the main factors that determine their permanence in the institution despite the declaration of adaptability are age, belonging to a group of siblings, such as having changed their decision to no longer wish to be adopted, living in an uncertain wait for finally exercise their right to belong to an assigned family or return to their original family and live in it. Regarding the strategies that are applied, life projects with a focus on autonomy and the PAINA project were identified.