Possibilidades de trabalho social com as famílias inseridas no Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento integral à Família – PAIF

The article proposes to reflect on the assumptions of social work with the families included in the PAIF (Service of Protection and Integral Assistance to the Family). Such assumptions are punctuated by recognizing the contemporary context of regression and fragmentation of public policies and having on the horizon the need to overcome the family’s responsibility for the social protection of its members. For that, it was based on bibliographical and documentary research. The reflections were organized in three articulated moments: the basic social protection in the ambit of the SUAS (Unified System of Social Welfare) and the contextualization of the PAIF; the philosophy of praxis as mobilizers of professional practices; social work with families. In view of the elements worked on, challenges to professional practice in the PAIF context are highlighted. These challenges point out to the disruption and overcoming of conservative practices, from a perspective of framing and accountability of families, advancing to methodologies that strengthen the protagonism of them, by offering quality services and articulated to other public policies. The text reinforces that the protagonism does not mean to exempt the State from its responsibility of guaranteeing social protection to the families that are in condition of vulnerability and social risk.