Políticas de atendimento a crianças e adolescentes no município de São Borja: um olhar para educação, saúde e assistência social

Abstract

The Policies for Attending to Children and Adolescents is the central theme of this Master 's thesis on Public Policies, which aims to analyze how the municipality of. Implements these policies in the bias of Education, Health and Social Assistance. For this purpose, recognition was given to actions undertaken in education, health and social assistance to meet the demands of children and adolescents, as well as the conditions of access to institutions that carry out these policies in the municipal territory. It was used an empirical research of quantitative and qualitative approach of exploratory level guided by the dialectic-critical method and its categories, like historicity, totality and contradiction, articulated to the thematic categories the historical transformations in the Public Policy of Attention to the child and the adolescent; the actions developed by the Public Policies of Health, Education and Social Assistance to meet the demands of childhood and youth; the design of the institutions, plans, programs and projects that implement the Public Policies of Assistance to children and adolescents, with emphasis on the Programs of Attention to the Family (PAIF), Family Health (PSF) and Basic Education. The data sources were official and legal documents at the state, national and municipal levels. In the empirical research, four approaches were carried out, in which the data of the research were submitted to content analysis. The results showed that it is mentioned that in the field of management and legal documents that direct public social policies as a successful tool to guarantee social rights, they present themselves in certain municipal practices as an articulating means that does not guarantee an effective and complete access to these rights . The Policy of Attention to children and adolescents in São Borja shows limits in the process of effectiveness both in the management of Education, Health and Social Assistance folders as well as in the number of institutions that implement such policies.