Social Work in a Social Services Center: a family with seventy cats

Abstract

This article shares an experience of family intervention with two adults, mother and daughter, immersed in a critical situation of social isolation and vulnerability. The institutional context of the intervention is located in a Social Work Unit Area of a Social Service Centre of a large city. The intervention is implemented under demand of a neighboring community. In line with the narrative of the case, the chances of a Social Work focused on the capabilities of the family, the importance of meeting and relating to people exposed to the situation described are analyzed. It emphasizes the need to promote planned monitoring interventions in order to reduce emergency actions professionals. All this in a historical moment marked by socio-political conditions facing the public system of social services to a threat of dismantling hitherto unknown.