Integration of the offer of social welfare and assistance for Early Childhood

Focused primarily on boosting the complementary character of the services provided by the State Social Welfare System (SUAS) and the ‘Criança Feliz’ program, the information pamphlets providing orientation on the integration of what they have to offer were published in 2022. The publications were the result of a collaborative process for construction of a strategy that involved the participation and experience in services focused on Early Childhood in fifteen municipalitiesAcreúna (GO), Ariquemes (RO), Careiro (AM), Caxias (MA), Cristal (RS), Frutuoso Gomes (RN), Missão Velha (CE), Pacatuba (CE), Parintins (AM), Penaforte (CE), Ponta Porã (MS), Salinas (MG), São José dos Campos (SP), São Luís (MA) and Tucuruí (PA) - as well as the two main Departments of the Ministry of Citizenship.

The pamphlets were launched as part of a live online broadcast to around 800 municipal employees and they are considered a benchmark for the guidance of more than 3,000 Brazilian municipalities. Ultimately, these are the ones who offer to make home visits and provide services for children aged between 0 and 6, and who are in situations of vulnerability in the thousands of social welfare reference centers (CRAS) around the country.

For the development of a process of integration, a diagnosis was performed drawing on the practice of actively listening to more than 60 public employees at federal, state and municipal levels, as well as the families benefiting from the project. The process involved testing the end products with the participation of municipal employees from 15 municipalities.

The updating of the pamphlet providing guidance on the three services offered, that were mentioned above, containing the possibilities of integration with a view to more complementary activities and the delivery of an instrumental pamphlet and videos with step-by-step instructions on how to boost the integration in the day-to-day activities of the services provided and involvement of the early childhood children and their families, were also achievements arising from the integration work performed.