O trabalho como elemento de transformação para os/as usuários/as do Centro de Referência de Assistência Social da Região Oeste de Santa Maria

Abstract

Considering the desire to deepen knowledge related to the work category as an essential activity of transformation for human subsistence, and the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world of work as problematic, the work category is discussed as an element of transformation for users of the Social Assistance Reference Center in the western region of Santa Maria. Based on the author's experience during the mandatory internship in Social Service, materialized with the development of the intervention project entitled Mural of Opportunities, it was necessary to understand the social reality manifested in that territory, as well as unveil the role of the Social Assistance Reference Center through the National Social Assistance Policy and Unified Social Assistance System. For this purpose, bibliographical research was used, a survey of job offers in Santa Maria, the creation of a panel with job advertising, providing access to information regarding the job market, education, professional courses close to the territory of Cras Oeste, as well as the social assistance services offered by the Social Assistance Reference Center. In view of this, there is a challenge in articulating work and social assistance within a capitalist order, even more so in light of the health crisis that has hampered users' spontaneous search for the job market and access to information, which has proven to be one of the most important instruments of citizenship guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of 1988