Building an educational program together health community agents

Aiming at contributing inputs to the learning process of health community agents from Health Family Strategy, this study has sought to devise an Educational Program for qualifying seven community agents from the Family Health Unit in a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Speeches on the perception these agents have of their work, their difficulties and proposals were captured and analyzed within the framework of the "Collective Subject Speech". Results showed the group's learning needs, and guided the devising and implementation of the Educational Program, which adopted the Emancipatory Education model. This knowledge was built by the agents through a problem-focused reality, debating, searching for solutions, and implementing intervention projects. They noticed that being a community health agent means, above all, to struggle and harness community forces for purposes of defending health & education public services and for improving social health determinants.

Health agents; Emancipatory Education; Community; Family Health