The performance of Social Service in University Extension: experiences from the Violence Against Women Prevention Front Project

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the activities of the university extension project named: “Violence Against Women Prevention Front”, which was executed in the year 2022, under coordination by the Social Service Department of Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro). The project’s interdisciplinary team was formed by the areas of Social Service, Law and Psychology and executed socioeducational actions on the topics of gender, inequality, violence against women and ways of confronting it. The chosen methodology for this work were bibliographic review and documentary research in Social Service professional records. The text is organized in two parts: in the first, we contextualize university extension as a socio-occupational locus of Social Service and, in the second, we present Social Service actions in the referred University Extension project. In the final considerations, we discuss the importance of socioeducational work with women participating in the Project, aiming to exchange knowledge, experiences and experiences, as well as the collective construction of alternatives in the face of the difficulties faced. Therefore, we assert university extension as an important locus for the professional training of students and of integration with teaching and research.