A intersetorialidade : contradições e desafios na política de assistência social

Abstract

The present dissertation systematizes the results of the research developed during the Master's Degree in Social Work in the Postgraduate Program of the Humanities School of PUCRS, whose main purpose was to analyze how the intersectoriality in the Social Assistance Policy in the Region of the Vale do Caí, in order to contribute with subsidies for its improvement. To carry out the study, a qualitative, mixed-focus research based on the dialectical-critical method was undertaken, having as sample three municipalities of the Caí Valley Region that is composed of twenty municipalities. The data collection was carried out through interviews with three managers and three social workers from each municipality, as well as the documents related to the social assistance policy in them. The main results of the study are the incipience of intersectoral practice in the municipalities / locus of the research. Thus, even with the notes made by managers and social workers on the relevance of intersectoral praxis, there is a vast path to be followed, full of contradictions and challenges. Thus, it is concluded that the intersectoriality must be understood as a management model that has as fundamental value the totality of the subjects and the families, in order to have effective access to the offer of public services and to legally guaranteed social rights.