<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em><strong>Background:</strong></em></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"> Social support and community integration have been studied as important dimensions of social care policies and known to be important protective factors of psychosocial stressors. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em><strong>Objective: </strong></em></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB">To explore social support and community integration of individuals aided by the PAIF (Integral Family Assistance Program), a key service in the Brazilian Social Care Policy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em><strong>Method: </strong></em></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB">nferential quantitative study with 201 participants from families engaged with PAIF. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em><strong>Results: </strong></em></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The length of the participants link to PAIF showed a positive correlation with community integration (r=.145, p&lt;.05). The highest explanatory degrees for community integration were age (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em>β</em></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB">=.323, p&lt;.001) and social financial benefit </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="background: #ffffff;">(</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em><span style="background: #ffffff;">β</span></em></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="background: #ffffff;">=.224, p=.002). </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><em><strong><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conclusions</span></strong></em></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><strong><span style="background: #ffffff;">: </span></strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="background: #ffffff;">PAIF has an impact on the community integration of its users, thus effecting one of its goals. </span></span></span></span></p>