Covid-19, CREAS, and socioeducational measures in Amazonas river channels

Abstract

The article elaborated using documental research, analyzes the impact of Covid-19 in the socioeducational measures implementation in open environment, in the territory of two rivers channels from Amazonas. The analysis of the organization of the services provided, of the attendances number and of the profile of the reference teams identified that, among the eight towns investigated in the channels of Alto Rio Negro and Rio Madeira, only six of them had CREAS, and none of them had a Socioeducational Attendance Municipal Plan and an Intersectoral Commission. Considering this, we verified that the challenges faced by the public management in these towns – concerning the execution of the measures in open environment – that involve the dimensions of the municipalities, the absence of representation by justice system members, and of the public defender's office, or even limitations in relation to co-financing were aggravated during the pandemic, reducing the few services provided in the regular period to almost nonexistent, when compared to the pandemic times.