A política de assistência social na cidade de Santa Maria/RS e a população em situação de rua no período da pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

The present work has as its theme a very present subject nowadays, namely, the Social Assistance Policy, being necessary due to the high demand and the increase of precedents that were generated due to the occurrence of the covid-19 pandemic. The general objective is to analyze the social welfare policy in the city of Santa Maria/RS and the homeless population in the period of the covid-19 pandemic. The main focus of this work is the homeless population, considering that there are a number of gaps in the care of this target audience, including before the pandemic and that has worsened with the health crisis of covid-19. For the understanding of this policy, it is sought to expose the historical trajectory since the ancient era, worldwide, in which the rights and the expressions of the social issue were present, until the current period, directed to Brazil, which became a citizen country by instituting a Constitution popularly known as citizen, which is in force until now. Thus, the paths of social assistance in Brazil will be studied, approaching the historical considerations, from the world political periods, financial crises, revolutions, among other important cycles, to its trajectory with the vulnerable populations, raising the first considerations on the social issue, the emergence of Social Service, its performance and influence received from the Catholic Church, in Brazil. The context evidences the invisibility of the expressions of the social issue, among them, poverty and social inequality, and the most radical phenomenon, the homeless population, which had a relevant increase due to the implications of the covid-19, reflecting in emergency actions in the Municipality of Santa Maria and CREAS/SM, highlighting the performance of social service in front of this population. From this perception, it is observed how pertinent is the work of social workers facing the homeless population and how it would make/will make a difference the existence of solid and effective public social policies, able to ensure the access of the homeless population to their social rights