Breves considerações sobre a trajetória da Política de Assistência Social no Brasil

Abstract

This work briefly retrieves the trajectory of social assistance in the Brazilian context by developing a reflection on the paths that assistance followed, its forms of execution, perspectives, and its modus operandi, until it reached the level of public policy. It is a bibliographic and documentary research with resources on the works of several authors and on reliable data sources, related to the legal frameworks of the Social Assistance Policy. The research developed has as main focus the study of the insertion of social assistance, composing the tripod of social security, more precisely from the Federal Constitution of 1988, which, in turn, made possible a significant change in its management, insofar as it instituted a new decentralized and participatory model. This conception allowed the opening of spaces for popular participation and, even, for the participation of its users. Finally, the work also points out the challenges and difficulties to be overcome, as well as the possibilities present in the context of the practice of social assistance policy.