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The Community Health Worker (CHW) has a vital importance for the Family Health Strategy (FHS). On the other hand, literature shows a gap in CHW education as well as in their professional education. This paper shows an in-running project, which aims to develop resources for the professional education of CHW using the social networks. Among the results, there is a Facebook ® webpage and some video material addressing important issues for CHW. Some of these videos are already available on YouTube ® . This content will be used as complementary educational resources with the CHW on Facebook ® webpage. A convenient sample from 15 CHW of the Cachoeiras de Macacu, a small village located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, were recruited to perform a preliminary assessment of three videos produced by the project. The content presented was the vaccination, the intestinal protozoa (some waterborne diseases) and the pediculosis. The evaluations were performed by psychometric Likert scale. All three videos obtained averages quite satisfactory on the content, professional importance and didactic. Thus, it is possible to infer a great potential of the use of this content through social networks. Besides the production these relevant content on topics of the Public Health, focused on the professional education of the CHW, the development of this project search to evaluate the potential application of social networks for Education in Health.