University Graduated with educative Intervention with street populations

Division of Continuous Education - Faculty of Psychology - Independent National University of Mexico, UNAM

 The University Graduated educative Intervention with street populations is directed to: psychologists, Anthropologists, Teachers, Sociologists, Social Workers, compatible Lawyers and professionals on the field of education, street educators, members of NGOs and governmental organisms involved in the attention of the population that lives in the street.

 We are convinced that the opportune intervention, with innovating methods and materials, is closely bound with the proffesionalization of the personnel who takes care of these populations; we consider that a complex phenomenon as this it requires several levels of intervention. 

 The Division of Continuous Education of the Faculty of Psychology, has considered that the graduate educative Intervention with street populations, is pertinent for the professional update of psychologists and other professionals of compatible areas that respond to the mission, vision and objectives of the division, since by means of this graduate program, El Caracol AC offers a specialized educative service, of quality that responds to the formation of necessities and qualification of the people involved in the educative intervention with the population that lives and/or works in the street.

 The graduate distributes itself to contribute to the formation of the personnel involved in governmental and nongovernmental institutions in the attention of the street populations, as well as for the specialization of professionals interested in the subject or that already make an educative intervention with these populations.

 On the other hand, a interdisciplinary vision which allows an integral boarding with interventions is promoted that responds indeed to the challenge that the phenomenon of the population that lives in the street represents for the collective society.

 In addition, one looks to offer to the participants a deep knowledge on the phenomenon of the street populations, conceptual and methodologic elements, as well as the educative practice with street populations by means of the design and execution of a project with an approach of rights. On the other hand, the pursuit of projects, in the classroom and in the land, will facilitate the reflection and the construction of knowledge from the educative practice.

Our general mission, the present graduated establishes that the participants will analyze the phenomenon of the street populations and will reflect on problematics that are associate to their way of life, with the purpose of designing and orchestrating projects of educative intervention with this population, from an approach of human rights.