Management of the Unified Social Assistance System - SUAS (LIVE)

Target Audience

The program targets professionals who hold degrees in Social Work, Psychology, Law, Anthropology, Home Economics, Education, Sociology, Occupational Therapy, Music Therapy, Administration, Accounting, and related fields, who are currently working or intend to work in social assistance policy with a direct link to the government sphere (municipal public power) or indirectly through Non-Governmental Organizations – NGOs/MROSC of the Third Sector, in accordance with resolution No. 17/2011 of CNAS – National Social Assistance Council.

Objectives

To train professionals capable of operating within the management of SUAS as well as in the programs, projects, and services of social assistance, both in governmental and non-governmental spheres, thereby enabling them to enhance their theoretical and practical skills for the execution of social assistance actions. This will encourage reflection and understanding of the articulation and integration between social assistance services, benefits and income transfers, and other public policies.

Specific Objectives

• To develop theoretical and practical knowledge so that professionals can work in the social area by developing local services, programs, and projects for the reception, coexistence, and socialization of families and individuals, according to the identification of the presented vulnerability situation;
• To contextualize the current scenario of society and the state, covering the history of social assistance in the country and the relationship of the main historical achievements of this public policy in recent decades; and to understand the trajectory of legislation related to basic social rights and the basic and special protection services linked to social assistance policy.
• To understand the execution of social assistance services with a focus on socio-family matrix and territory in communication with the social assistance and intersectoral network;
• To allow the recognition of diversities within the territory in social assistance actions, providing equitable service and adapting the planning and execution of actions for the target audience.