EXPERIENCE REPORT: EXTENSION PROGRAMS IN THE COMMUNITY

Abstract

The importance that health education plays in people's lives is visible, since this should be interpreted from the perspective of prevention, and its practice linked to better living conditions and health of the population. Therefore, this study is aimed to describe the experiences in an extension project conducted with children and adolescents. This was performed in the Non-Governmental Organization Covenant House, which is inserted in a poor neighborhood. Its target audience is children and adolescents in the community. For the implementation of this extension project we used as dynamic methodological tools and fun activities which focused on Nursing and Nutrition issues, such as the demands, needs and desires of the target audience. At the end of the project, it was noticed that the interventions performed well in relation to the contents worked because there were many questions and case reports, which revealed interest in the topics covered. And, when carrying out educational games and making associations of answers through images, hunting - words and gestures we noticed a facilitation process when setting the contents, confirming thus the interest on the themes worked. At the end of this experience it was remarkable how these were constructive and productive exchange of experience between the community and the stock, as the playfully transmitted guidelines were passed on to relatives and friends innocently, but indirectly served as a warning to these people. When children and adolescents saw the images of the symptoms of certain diseases they could associate them to people with similar symptoms and ended up by passing on the acquired knowledge. The shares were also of great contribution to the professors who participated, because it contributed to their professional development.