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STUDENT : ANA CAROLINE DE LIMA SILVA FERREIRA
DATE: 24/03/2021
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: http://meet.google.com/ddi-bocd-uhf
TITLE:

Between Protection and Accountability: An analysis of the acting of
Social Assistance Reference Centers with families

KEY WORDS:

Social Assistance; Basic Social Protection; Sociofamily Matriciality; Female groups;

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

In Brazil, the late attempt to establish a Social State was run over by neoliberalism. Social
policies were built between punctual and compensatory actions, based on the historical
heritage of the approach to the “social issue”, through philanthropy and the private sphere.
Only in 1988, after the political reopening and the pressure from progressive sectors of civil
society, it was drawn to the Federal Constitution to ensure citizenship rights to the population.
Even so, it was only in 1993 that the Organic Law on Social Assistance was regulated,
although it was not fully implemented. Since 2003, with the government of the Workers'
Party, this field has made political and legal advances: income transfer programs were unified
through the Bolsa Família Program; the National Social Assistance Policy was regulated; the
Single Social Assistance System constituted; social assistance services reorganized by levels
of protection; public equipment were created to serve families (the Social Assistance
Reference Centers and the Specialized Social Assistance Reference Centers); access to social
policies and income transfer programs were centralized in the Single Registry; the Family
Protection and Assistance Service became part of the Social Assistance network of continuous
action services financed by the Federal Government, which must take place at CRAS and
offer individual and collective actions. Thus, accompaniment to families has become the
responsibility of the State and the social and family matrix founding in the provision of
services. The woman started to be placed as “responsible for the family” both in Social
Assistance and in the PBF. However, within the framework of a policy related to the family, it
must be emphasized that these forms of intervention have intergenerational care as one of
their main purposes, that is, having unpaid reproductive work. Thus, while the family
responsible receives the benefit of the PBF, she also undertakes to fulfill obligations that
reinforce cultural standards that keep the female figure linked to traditional gender roles. With
the expectation of contributing to this debate, from a critical view of PNAS, this dissertation
sought to produce an analysis of socio-assistance practices aimed at women and their families,
in Basic Social Protection, based on the following question: from social work with women's
groups developed in the PAIF in which trend will direct the activities carried out by the
technical team of CRAS in Natal / RN: protective or familist? To answer this question, the
objective was to analyze how these activities are planned and operated by the technical team
at CRAS. Specifically, we sought to map and characterize the activities developed by the
technical teams for the female audience of the CRAS in Natal / RN; and analyze from which
theoretical perspective the technical team is based to plan and develop these activities. To this
end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants from the technical
team of CRAS in Natal / RN, who had training in psychology or social work. This
information was systematized and analyzed under Marxian inspiration. The results point
mainly to a mismatch between the theoretical / methodological approach and professional
practice; a distancing from the relationships between the technical team and the families and
an urgent need for investment in actions that carry out social and family matriciality,
considering that women are the majority to access CRAS and actually occupy the place of
"family reference". This shows the mixture between the protective and familial tendencies in
the conduct of the groups offered.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1205730 - ISABEL MARIA FARIAS FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA
Externo à Instituição - JULIANO BECK SCOTT - UFRN
Externa à Instituição - MÔNICA RAFAELA DE ALMEIDA - UFERSA