PERMANENT EDUCATION PROJECT WITH COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENTS: FACING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Recognizing the importance of the work of the Community Health Workers (CHW), and the lack they have in relation to continuing education, Health Academic League of Family and Community of Federal University of Uberlândia, in order to contribute to the qualification of the CHW has developed a training project with them, aiming actions of health promotion and prevention, valuing the knowledge of these professionals and enabling learning between them and the members of the league. METHOD The league members developed workshops with community health workers on various topics. The theme of each workshop was decided based on the demands of the agents, approaching, among other issues, the coping of the Violence against Women. It was worked with the agents the types of violence, the Maria da Penha law, the approach when faced with cases and possible referrals that should be done. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Through the developed work was reinforced the importance of continuous training of CHW mainly, as noted, on the subject of violence against women, which is part of the daily of the agents, then it needs to be discussed, questioned, allowing elaborations of transforming actions. Thinking on it as unfolding, the League has developed a symposium on the theme, open to the community where these issues could be studied in a deeper and comprehensive manner, with the participation of social actors, providing information and reflections on this important and neglected issue: the role of CHW and violence against women.