APAES, direitos sociais e serviços socioassistenciais: particularidades no atendimento das pessoas com deficiência na região das Missões/RS

Abstract

The present study discusses the Associations of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (APAES) of the Missões/RS Region and the National Social Assistance Policy (PNAS). This study aimed to understand the contributions made by the work developed by the APAES of the Missões/RS Region in guaranteeing the social rights of people with disabilities within the scope of the PNAS. It is a bibliographical and documental research, developed by the dialecticalcritical method with a qualitative prism, of an applied nature and exploratory character, carried out through an electronic questionnaire and content analysis. It emphasizes the relationship between the social rights of PCDS and the creation of public policies, with a focus on social policy, and, with one of them, that of social assistance, articulating it with the existing discussion about the genesis of the creation of APAES. It highlights the concrete reality of the ten APAES of the Missions/RS. As for the historicity, it can be seen that five of the APAES in this Region were created before the enactment of CF/88, and the other five after that period. In terms of physical structures and human resources, it is evident that the majority of them have their own buildings and professionals are predominantly hired through a CLT contract, with all of them having a social worker. Regarding the financial resources of these APAES, it can be seen that among their main sources are municipal resources. Regarding the form of management and social control, accounting professionals, boards and fiscal councils, among others, participate in this process. Regarding social assistance services, it was found that all of them work with social assistance services, that is, in the area of social assistance policy, while five of them maintain special education schools and three of them work offering services in the health area. As for PCDS, these APAES serve, preferably, intellectual and multiple, but also people with visual, physical, hearing impairments, Down Syndrome, Global Development Disorder. Despite all the contradictions found in the process of creating and maintaining these entities, it can be inferred that the APAES work from the perspective of social rights performing social assistance services and present themselves with particularities in the care of people with disabilities in the Missões/RS region.