O CENTRO DE REFERÊNCIA DE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL (CRAS) COMO UNIDADE ESTRATÉGICA DE EFETIVAÇÃO DA PROTEÇÃO SOCIAL BÁSICA: UM ESTUDO SOBRE O SUAS EM GOIÁS.

Abstract

This thesis analyses the reorganization process of services, programs and projects of social assistance under the guidelines of the 1988 Federal Constitution and the Organic Law of Social Assistance (Loas) as well as its regulation by the National Policy of Social Assistance (PNAS) - approved in 2004- and the Single System of Social Assistance (Suas). Considering the Reference Center of Social Assistance (Cras) as the strategic unity to make basic social protection effective, the research lies on the implementation and implantation of Cras in the province of Goiás. It s objective is to apprehend and analyze the improvements and the difficulties observed in the management of Cras/Suas in relation to the conception of basic social protection and of new conceptual matrixes, administrative orientations and material and human resources. The results obtained through the investigative process show that social protection, in its operational dimension, has aspects that bring it closer to the PNAS proposition, though with theoretical-methodological as well as ethical and political fragilities, expressed in the emergency mark that has followed the social assistance s trajectory. In its conceptual dimension, the implantation of the Cras, as a public municipal unity, register improvements and challenges that permeate basic social protection effectiveness and the materialization of one of the strategies of putting social assistance into effect as a social policy.