O Programa Criança Feliz e a relação com o Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento Integral à Família no município de Ponta Porã – MS

Abstract

This is a master's thesis developed in the Postgraduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (PPG-Psi/UFGD), located at the Faculty of Human Sciences. The general objective was to understand how early childhood care is provided in the Unified Social Assistance System, focusing on the Happy Child Program (PCF) and its developments in a border municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul. The specific objectives were to identify developments implementation of the Program in the Unified Social Assistance System in Ponta Porã (MS), analyze the list of services already implemented by the social assistance policy and the PCF and discuss aspects of the intersectoral nature of the PCF. The research was constructed based on the speeches of teams linked to the PCF and also to the Protection and Comprehensive Assistance to Families (PAIF) service and sought to analyze the content explained by the professionals who work in Basic Social Protection and the Happy Child Program. To carry out the research, a qualitative approach was chosen, which is a type of investigation that enables the construction of knowledge and is considered and valued as a scientific construct. To process the data collected in the interviews, we used the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Content Analysis, which covers the analysis of different types of documents, texts or even the contents of an interview. It is possible to arrive at four final categories that guided the discussions found in the interviews, namely: the structuring and implementation of the Criança Feliz Program in Ponta Porã; the rapprochement between the Family Protection and Comprehensive Assistance service and the PCF; the assistance network at the border; and the prospects for the PCF