Perception of early childhood teachers about the impact of social distancing during the pandemic

The application of intervention programs provokes reflections, when developing prevention strategies in order to reduce risk factors and vulnerabilities, increasing the protective factors present or inciting new protective behaviors. The ACT Raising Safe Kids Program - is one of such interventions that teaches non-aggressive behavior to educate children in safe environments. This research aims to verify the feasibility of the ACT program for early childhood education teachers. Six teachers from a CMEI (Municipal Center of Early Childhood Education) of Curitiba participated in the application of the program, with the duration of eight sessions, in which the programmatic content of the ACT and the pre and post-test questionnaires were applied, all duly adapted to the target audience of the research. There was also an interview with the director of the institution and an online follow-up focus group with the participants after one year. As a result, there has been an increase in the answers considered appropriate by 75 questions between the beginning and the end of the application of the program. The participants of the follow up focus group said they enjoyed the experience, learned about the contents and changes made, which contributes to the expansion of knowledge about violence prevention and encourages the replication of the intervention in order to confirm its applicability.