Serviço Social e terceiro setor: a importância da atuação profissional nas organizações da sociedade civil de Santa Maria

Abstract

The present course conclusion work in social work, constitutes a bibliographical and documentary research of a quantitative and qualitative nature, through the analysis of articles, monographs, theses and books on the subject. It also uses the knowledge acquired in the mandatory internship, bringing to this work the results obtained in the intervention project developed in this field. The main objective of this work is to analyze the importance of the social work in civil society organizations that make up the Third Sector, performing a comparative analysis of organizations with and without social workers in their technical staff. So, in this work we study the following topics: the origins, concepts and development of the Third Sector; an analysis of the Mesa Brazil Program, a mandatory internship used for comparative analysis of organizations; and finally, an analysis was carried out on the development of social work over the years and on the impact of professional work in Third Sector organizations. Therefore, it was concluded that, even in the face of the existing contradictions in the emergence of this new sector, the presence of social worker aligned with the ethical-political project of the profession, acting in an interventional and effective way in the multiple expressions of the social issue, is fundamental for the guarantee of rights and the end of charitable practices in this new sector.