Desafios e as possibilidades para a consolidação da assistência social como direito de cidadania: O SERVIÇO SOCIAL NO CRAS NORTE – SM/RS

Abstract

This work is the result of the theoretical and practical accumulation built during the training period, based on the course subjects, discussions, readings, participation in events, the mandatory internship at CRAS Norte and academic supervision, which were fundamental for the understanding of Social Service inserted in social relations and professional performance in socio-occupational spaces. This work addresses social assistance policy, especially basic social protection, as an integral part of the Brazilian social security system, with a view to making visible the activities carried out at CRAS Norte. Social Service is a specialization of collective work and inserted in the social and technical division of labor and has the social issue as its object of work. In this sense, we affirm the social assistance policy as an expression of the social issue, as well as the demands of users who access CRAS. We reaffirm that such expressions are the result of the capitalist social relationship, and not an individual issue. Social rights are materialized through services and benefits, such as the BPC and occasional benefits, which are responses given by the State to the expressions of the social issue that are produced and reproduced by capitalism. In the meantime, the challenges of Social Service converge with the challenges of social assistance to consolidate it as a right of citizenship, as part of social protection under the responsibility of the State, given the historical conformation that historically dealt with social assistance organized in a fragmented way, of a tutelary and clientelistic nature, managed by philanthropy, voluntarism and first-classism. Finally, as Iamamoto (2015) teaches us, the condition of a salaried worker imposes limits on the social worker, since the social direction of the work depends on the conditions and material means to be carried out. However, the class struggle is a stage for exploitation, but also for resistance. It is collectively and in an organized way that we move forward.