Estudo sobre os vínculos familiares e comunitários de pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade social.

Abstract

The project presented here was born out of the identification of a gap between the provision of social assistance services and the data that make up the socio-territorial diagnosis, specifically with regard to the dimension of family and community ties of people in situations of social vulnerability. This researcher, professionally involved with the research object, decided to transform the perceptions and concerns of a professional practice into the object of scientific research. To this end, important human sciences theorists were used, such as Enrique Pichon-Riviere, Robert Castel, Carla Akotirene, Silvio de Almeida, among others, as well as the legal, institutional and normative framework that make up the Public Social Assistance Policy. This theoretical framework supports the security of coexistence guaranteed by the National Social Assistance Policy (PNAS), which refers to the strengthening of family and community ties. However, despite being provided for in public policy and advocated by important researchers in the human sciences, security of coexistence is not translated into data for socio-territorial diagnoses. The absence of coexistence indicators in these diagnoses can lead to less social recognition of social assistance services, such as the SCFV. In addition, when compared to the social recognition of social assistance benefits, such as income transfer programs, social assistance services have a lower value and capillarity in society. Second-guessing relational and coexistence elements in the analysis of social vulnerability can make important elements that mitigate situations of vulnerability and social risks invisible, such as a strengthened support network, the promotion of self-esteem, citizenship, protagonism and social participation. The aim of this study is therefore to propose a social management technology for diagnosing the family and community ties of social assistance users. The research was conducted using a qualitative methodological approach, through documentary research and content analysis carried out on the SUAS medical records of a social assistance unit located in the city of Salvador-BA. At the end of the scientific investigation, it was possible to validate the proposed social management technology, as well as to demonstrate the importance of incorporating data on the family and community ties of social assistance users in order to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of social assistance services, the efficiency of public investments in these services and the effectiveness of their results.