The Government of Navarra, through the Observatory of the Social Reality of the department of Social Rights, and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra have presented the Methodologicalguide - RYOS Narratives Program ("Rewrite your own story"). The project has been developed within the framework of partnership that both institutions maintain through the laboratory Permanent of Social Innovation.

This initiative is part of the doctoral research conducted over three years by Sofía Brotóns at the group 'Public discourse' of the ICS on adolescence at risk and writing as tool intervention. It gathers the experience gathered during this period in the Etxabakoitz Workshop School and the Bridge Center, both in Navarra. 

According to him, RYOS has as goal "that adolescents who are at risk of exclusion have the opportunity to rewrite their history through narrative therapy". He presents writing as "tool really useful to increase self-knowledge and improve future projections" of young people who are in a center or institution of these characteristics.

"Adolescents arrive there with a future that seems to have already been written. However, when they are the ones writing, they become capable of reformulating the infinite possibilities of their future," he explains. 

The guide is aimed at professionals of work social and occupational therapists whose scope of work is focused on adolescents at risk of social exclusion, as well as management and coordination teams dedicated to the training of young people at risk of exclusion.

Mª Carmen Maeztu Villafranca, Councilor for Social Rights, said: "It will be very useful in the work that we carry out with minors from the department de Derechos. We will make it available to professionals so that they can incorporate it in their interventions".