The Perception of Social Workers on the Family Grant Program in the City of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Adria Leite Vinhote; Elizangela Pinto Gomes Monteiro; Alexsandra Cordeiro do Nascimento; Luana Soares Marinho; Claudius Walber Nobrega de Araujo

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

The Perception of Social Workers on the Family Grant Program in the City of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Adria Leite Vinhote, Elizangela Pinto Gomes Monteiro, Alexsandra Cordeiro Do Nascimento, Luana Soares Marinho, Claudius Walber Nobrega De Araujo

Abstract :

Family Grant is an income transfer program that was created in 2003 to combat poverty and social inequality in Brazil. There are people who consider assistentialist and election the Family Grant Program, others defend as an innovative program and that changed the Brazilian social reality. Social workers had the function of harmonizing the social relations that came from social, political and economic conflicts. From the Federal Constitution of 88 and the Organic Law of Social Assistance - LOAS of 93, that the work of social workers is aligned in the search for the realization of rights. Therefore, the objective of the study was to analyze the perception of the Social Workers about the Family Grant Program in the city of Manaus, Amazonas. A bibliographic search was carried out on websites of journals and international journals. After that, a questionnaire with 10 open and closed questions was elaborated, where 47 professionals in Social Service in the city of Manaus, Amazonas, responded individually. The results indicated that professionals agree that the Family Grant Program contributes to the fight against poverty reduction.