A interface da busca ativa na prática do assistente social

Abstract

This study is about Active Search, a strategy for locating, identifying and social inclusion of vulnerable or extremely poor people, excluded, socially unprotected, individuals and families unaware, totally or partially, of their citizenship rights, silenced by poverty, outside the scope of services and public policies, so called “invisible” to the state. Active Search has gained notoriety, nationally, due to PBSM - Plano Brasil Sem Miseria in 2011. This strategy resulted in a bridge to citizenship, social welfare and the visibility of this public. In harmony with the Cadúnico-Cadastro Único for Social Programs and the PNAS-Politica Nacional de Assistência Social, this strategy was central to PBSM's actions, with the social workers at the head of its programs and projects through the execution of the Active Search. PBSM was ended in 2015, but the active search has continued, inside the basic special protection in social assistance services and in Special Protection in some cases. What do we know about this strategy at PNAS? We found a scanty number of studies about this topic in Social Work, and we noticed the lack visibility of the active search in PNAS, where our questions came from. Our investigation interest was to verify the meaning, the apprehension \ appropriation that the social workers on the “tip” has about this strategy and how they execute this practice in his daily life. Knowing that the active search has a political function that goes beyond the location, identification, data collection and immediate resolution of usually isolated demands, we intend to ascertain the limits and possibilities of this social inclusive execution by a qualitative and critical research, interviewing seven social workers, members of the NCI- Núcleo de Convivência de Idosos in São Paulo’s city, thus seeking to give a voice to those who provides this services given