USE OF FAMILY APPROACH TOOLS BY COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENT TO IMPROVE THE CONSTRUCTION OF SINGULAR THERAPEUTIC PROJECT

I/O: ⦁ In Brazil, Family Health Teams, works with Community Health Agents (CHAs) to sustain one of our major actions (Work on the ascribed team´s territory). Besides being non-technical health care workers, they have crucial importance in the functionality of our health care system. The lack of capacitation, generates stress, drop in productivity and Illness, before complex cases they feel impotent and useless. How to qualify health practices of community agents (non-technical workers in health care) to build a unique treatment plan and integrate them in the health care plan? ⦁ Describe the process of Continuing Education to qualify non-technical Health Care Workes; ⦁ analyze the perception of CHAs on the impact of using the FATs - Family Approach Tools (usually used by family doctors) into their daily work M: ⦁ Literature review on previous use of the instruments by CHAs in Brazil; ⦁ describe the meetings of continuing education ⦁ Using FATs (Familiogram, life cycles, ECOMAP, family circle), to create Singular Therapeutic Project (STP) of Salgueiro Families in team meetings. ⦁ Evaluate through focal groups, perceptions of CHA about the impact of qualification on the team work process. R/C: The use of FATs qualifies the CHAs which leads to more autonomy and valorization of their work. The use of FATs in case discussions inserts the CHA in the care of families, brings paradigms changes on the biopsychosocial vision and facilitates the management of continuity of care by non-technical health workers.