Abstract
First a National Committee to support the war effort, the Brazilian Legion of Assistance - LBA - soon became a federal agency for social assistance with branches throughout the national territory. In São Paulo, particularly this change resulted in substantial actions of LBA such as the school soup, the school fund and childcare centers that, in this article, we take as study case and topics for which it is possible to point the internalization paths that followed its policies in the state. After reading official documents from the state LBA, we seek to highlight features of the mentioned policies, its way of operation, the local of implementation, institutional partnerships in order to indicate traces of internalization in progress.
Key-words:
Brazilian Legion of Assistance; welfare policies; internalization; childhood