Summary
Considering public policies established in order to guarantee children's rights as they are threatened, and in particular, the institutional care, this article presents the results of an investigation of professional psychologists' work in host entities, with the following objectives: to know the practices of psychologists in the field of institutionalized children; investigate the evaluation of professionals about child protection networks, the implementation of ECA and its articulation with public policies. The method was a semi-structured interview and content analysis for interpretation of narratives. The research concludes that profession exercise in these entities brings