THE ACADEMIA CARIOCA PROGRAM IN DEVELOPING A CULTURE AND PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES IN THE FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY (SMSRJ-BRAZIL)

Introduction: The model based on Health requires collective actions in the context that should awaken in their territory participatory practices seen as the service improvement tool and space for social health promotion. the Academia Carioca Program implemented in 2009 by the Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro as Health Promotion strategy by offering regular physical activity guided by physical education professional, linked to Primary Health Care Units and integrated into the Family Health Strategy, supports with this logic aimed at comprehensiveness by strengthening social responsibility and participation. Objective: To present the coordinated collective initiative by the Academia Carioca Program cleaning and replanting of an area identified as a local garbage dump and rubble near the Municipal Health Center Flavio Couto Vieira (AP 3.3) as a practice of community action. Method: This is a community trial with data collected through structured interviews with the participants of the action, all members of the Academia Carioca Program. Results and Conclusion: The mobilization which resulted in building a site run by the community, the perception of family health team, helped to increase the involvement of the population with health practices to strengthen a trust of its professionals with the community and develop a culture co-responsible for the composition of a virtuous cycle where the quality of service encourages a sense of community along with the improvement of the Family Health Strategy and the quality of individual and collective life. Recognizing as users and guardians of the public health system.