it into a shelter for children, in order to accommodate children and impoverished teenagers and homeless who come from New Hamburg neighborhood. At the time, the Home had the closest profile of an orphanage.

Currently, the institution, as well as receive and protect in shelter system also performs therapeutic recreational workshops, such as school, artistic, cultural and sports monitoring. The public are served children from zero years of age and adolescents up to 18 years incomplete.

Today the Lar Padilha serves about 100 children and teenagers. Although there are cases of orphans, most of them come from broken families, either by drugs, violence, misery and neglect. Virtually all have a history of abuse, mistreatment, sexual violence or absolute abandonment.

The Home is headquartered in the town of Padilla, indoor Taquara, which has three houses, one for children 5-12 years and another two for teens, where the boys are on one of them and in other girls.

It also keeps the Advocacy Center and Social Protection Lar Padilha, which is situated in the center of Taquara and serves children from birth to 11 years of age, in addition to providing a republic for the host to teenagers above 18 years, until they can manter- whether alone.

Inside the shelter, young people have their rights guaranteed, being offered food, leisure, sports, health, tutoring, religious education, psychological assistance and protection, according to the Child and Adolescent - ECA. All are enrolled in municipal and state schools in Taquara and receive school transportation.

Teenagers are sent to external professional courses to Lar Padilha and inserted in the labor market through the Apprentice Program Cool, providing opportunities real prospects for change in the corporate cycle to which they were entered. Those who complete the age of majority and have no conditions of return to family life are referred to the Republic Project, supported by the FLD.

The main results are perceived to protect children and adolescents welcomed, in view of risks and social vulnerability and the strengthening of family ties that the psychosocial service of the shelter is seeking the return and a better relationship with family life.

Lest they lose their family ties, the Lar Padilha maintains a Family Reintegration Program, through which a social worker regularly visits the families of these young people, in order to insert them in the social networks of public authorities, facilitate the monthly visitation of children and expedite the shelter shutdown process.

For its efforts in promoting the family and community feedback, in 2007, the Lar Padilha was awarded by AMB (Association of Magistrates of Brazil). All this structure makes the Lar Padilha is reference in the shelter sector at the state level.