Women building Health

Abstract

In this article, we present a summary of an experience of curricularization of university extension carried out in the year 2021. 3rd year students of the Psychology course of studies became participants of a university extension project. It aimed at working together with a home for care and accompaniment (CAAC) of Sedronar in Barrio Ampliación 1 de Julio "Somos Pueblo" in the City of Córdoba. Work was done on the training of Territorial Promoters (PT) for the promotion and protection of health in order to prevent gender violence. The women we worked with play key roles in their community, since their work promotes the psychosocial development and material survival of many families. In the context of the health emergency due to COVID-19 and the preventive and compulsory social isolation (ASPO), there has been a significant change in the social and economic reality of popular sectors. The existing gap in access to health, the difficulty in continuing education and more cases of gender violence were made visible. In this sense, working on the training of TP was important to denaturalize and sensitize behaviors and situations of violence that place women at risk. The intervention was developed through virtual synchronous workshops on the Meet platform and digital resources such as Google questionnaires and interviews. The aim was to promote the joint recognition of risk factors and health protectors linked to gender violence, as well as its denaturalization, generating spaces for reflection regarding health-disease-care processes, and visibility of situations of inequality and structural exclusion.