Participatory local development, social network support and human occupation: experience report in extension project

Abstract

This article recounts an exploratory and interdisciplinary experience of university extension in participatory local development, of the Faculdade de Medicine do ABC, Santo André, SP in the riverside town of Araguaiana, MT, in which the contributions of work were social networks of support through device ecomap, and Human Occupation. Produced a fi eld of participatory mobilization strategies between different actors of the local reality and educational institution for dealing with issues related to work. It was concluded that the proposed investments have important relevance in the construction of local strategies, in which the active participation was middle and end of the process, and occupational therapy, in representation of the course of the institution and the coordinator of outreach activity possible opportunity to educational processes and transforming reality of both the local community as critical for intervention and social issues in health education of the institution.