In the first part of the thesis I summarize the theoretical knowledge of the areas that concern the family, its functions and its importance for a child. I pay attention to basic legal norms and also social work with family. I focus on the concept of the improvement of the family. I continue to a qualitative survey in order to complement the theoretical framework of the specifics of family redevelopment of families with children under three months of age. I have been working with social workers and they agreed on many characters of the improvement of the family, that is provided for the selected target group. There was drawn up a list of organizations that provide improvement of the family in the area of the capital city Prague. These organizations provide a service for the selected target group. This list can also be used in practice. Qualitative investigation confirmed that the improvement of the family is irreplaceable in social services market. From the responses of social workers was showed that in the future there will increase the demand for this service. The situation of the traditional family has been changing and parents feel greater pressure regarding the performance of individual roles in society.

My thesis work deals with working with the family of a social services client. Social services can be defined as a set of activities to provide assistance to persons in unfavourable social situations. The main purpose of social services is to preserve human dignity and to encourage the given persons to pursue activities that do not protract or worsen their social situation (in other words, to prevent their social exclusion). People may find themselves in a difficult social situation for various reasons (e.g. because of age or poor health status). The most frequent social services users are seniors and persons with disabilities. With regard to the fact that in the future I would like to work in a job treating the above-mentioned target groups, I focused on them in my thesis. I suppose that mutual cooperation between a family and the staff in the social care providing facility can have a positive affect on the client himself. For this reason, I conceived my thesis in a broader context - a family, a social services user and a social services provider. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part describes all the important aspects related to a family, social services and basic characteristics of the Blansko district. In the practical part the target of the thesis was stated. I wanted to learn what problems most families face (not just prior to placing the client to a social services facility, but also in the course of the stay), what their experience with the facility is and whether they are informed about all available social services offered in the area. To compile the thesis quantitative research was applied. I used the method of questioning, the technique of structured interviews with family members of senior home clients and persons with mental disabilities attending a daycare stationary. The thesis could serve as information material on social services not only for families involved in my research, but also for the general public - to provide information about availability of social services for seniors and persons with mental disabilities in the Blansko district in the South Moravian Region.

Children are being removed unnecessarily from their families and placed into substitute care because service programmes lack resources to keep families intact. There are overseas programmes, which provide home services to families, with children at risk of out of home placement. Although there has been an IFPS project there is no established intensive short-term programme in South Africa that deals with families at the brink of dissolution.The objective of the research is to investigate whether an Intensive Family Preservation Programme is feasible in South Africa. The researcher received training in the United States and met with leaders in the field, to discuss the development and implementation of the programme in South Africa. Surveys obtained the attitudes and opinions of the local social workers and commissioners of Child Welfare in Durban towards the programme. The results from opinion surveys indicate that an Intensive Family Preservation Programme is feasible in South Africa. / Social Science / M.A.(Social Work)

Text in Afrikaans / Na aanleiding van die toename in tendense wat voorkom by die ontplooide soldate, byvoorbeeld aansoeke om verplasings nader aan die huis, afwesigheid sander verlof en alkoholmisbruik, het die navorser ondersoek ingestel na die effek van die ontplooiing op die soldaat en sy gesin. 'n Verkenningstudie is gekies om die probleemareas te verken. Die nominale groepstegniek is gebruik om die inligting te verkry vanaf die 16 gesinne wat deur doelbewuste seleksie gekies is. Die Die navorser het bevind dat daar wel verskeie probleme tuis ontstaan het as gevolg van die ontplooiing. Beide die blanke en Zoeloe gesinne het probleme ervaar as gevolg van die ontplooiing, alhoewel die probleme verskil het by die verskillende kulture. Verskeie aanbevelings is gemaak en sluit die samewerking van die maatskaplike werkers, kompanie bevelvoerders, eenheidsbevelvoerders om die omstandighede van die soldate in die ontplooiingsituasie, asook die van hulle gesinn, te verbeter. / M.A. (Maatskaplike Werk)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Auxiliadora Pereira da Silva.pdf: 1061197 bytes, checksum: e073a4a74f2b8394f89789e37d527c78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-24 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study sought to present the social work with families from a program in the city of Suzano called PROASF - Social-Family Guidance and Support Network Program, and PAIF - Program of Comprehensive Care to Family, from the point of view of municipal management. In the course of the research it was presented the historical, economic, social and demographic aspects of Suzano, in particular, the trajectory and the management of social care in the municipality. For the analysis of such programs it was made a historical rescue of most relevant experiments in social work with families, which happened at the federal, state and municipal scope, noting similarities and differences between these experiments. As the implementation of the social work with families was performed by professionals of an entity contracted with the city of Suzano, under the supervision of professionals from government, it was analyzed the relationship between State and Civil Society, presenting the weaknesses and strengths of this partnership. The city of Suzano, while establishing the PROASF, creates a parallelism of actions in social work, with families using resources of the PAIF, without, however, informing families about the existence of the federal program, leading to tensions in the relationship between levels of governmentwork. / Neste estudo, apresenta-se o trabalho social com famílias a partir da existência de um programa municipal, na cidade de Suzano, denominado Programa em Rede de Orientação e Apoio Sociofamiliar (Proasf) e o Programa de Atenção Integral à Família (Paif), sob o ponto de vista da gestão local. No percurso da pesquisa, apresentam-se os aspectos históricos, econômicos, sociais e demográficos de Suzano, em especial, a trajetória e a gestão da assistência social no município. Para a análise dos respectivos programas, faz-se o resgate histórico de experiências mais relevantes, no trabalho social com famílias, que aconteceram nos âmbitos federal, estadual e municipal, constatando o que tais experiências tinham de comum e de diferente. Como o trabalho social com famílias é realizado por profissionais de entidade conveniada com a Prefeitura de Suzano, sob a supervisão dos profissionais do Poder Público, são analisadas as relações entre Estado e sociedade civil, e apresentadas as fragilidades e potencialidades dessa parceria. A Prefeitura de Suzano, ao mesmo tempo em que cria o Proasf, gera um paralelismo de ações no trabalho social com famílias utilizando recursos do Paif sem, contudo, informar as famílias sobre a existência do programa federal, levando a tensões na relação entre as esferas de governo

The present thesis is concerned with the Importance of Children's Centres influencing an active involvement of the family in the remediation process, a theme so far unexplored in this respect. The objective of the thesis is to design suitable starting points of an individual care plan of families at risk which contribute to returning the child to his or her biological family in the remediation process by way of social rehabilitation. This is fulfilled with respect to partial objectives that reveal the influence of social and pathological effects, partial characteristics of remediation of the family and services rendered, and on the basis of these findings, the author identifies the ways, methods and techniques of health and social work that are applied by Children's Centres in relation to an active involvement of parents in a social rehabilitation process. In addition, the present thesis determines aspects of the multidisciplinary help that assist in participation in the support provided, or, as the case may be, aspects that prevent such participation. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and methodological. The theoretical part is engaged in the family as such, its functions, risk factors, the most common types of parental disorders in relation to a family at risk, families at risk, the contemporary status of care of children at risk. The thesis delineates in detail the forms of threats to children and the key risk factors influencing parents with respect to participation in solving the problem per se. The last chapter scrutinizes the problem of family remediation, its characteristics and stages. Further, the last chapter focuses on activities of "Dětské centrum Jihočeského kraje, o.p.s." [Children's Centre of the South Bohemian Region, public service company] in Strakonice and the social rehabilitation service the Centre provides - ways, methods and techniques of health and social work with families at risk. The content of the methodological part gives an explanation of the importance of the Children's Centre influencing an active involvement of parents in the remediation process using social rehabilitation, by applying the method of a semi-conducted interview as a primary technique of data collection. The data acquired are analysed and interpreted in Chapter eight. Chapter nine presents starting points for an individual care plan that serve, in compliance with the rules enumerated, as a functional tool for achieving an active involvement of parents in the social rehabilitation process. The final chapter concludes and further clarifies the problems at issue.

Children are being removed unnecessarily from their families and placed into substitute care because service programmes lack resources to keep families intact. There are overseas programmes, which provide home services to families, with children at risk of out of home placement. Although there has been an IFPS project there is no established intensive short-term programme in South Africa that deals with families at the brink of dissolution.The objective of the research is to investigate whether an Intensive Family Preservation Programme is feasible in South Africa. The researcher received training in the United States and met with leaders in the field, to discuss the development and implementation of the programme in South Africa. Surveys obtained the attitudes and opinions of the local social workers and commissioners of Child Welfare in Durban towards the programme. The results from opinion surveys indicate that an Intensive Family Preservation Programme is feasible in South Africa. / Social Science / M.A.(Social Work)

Text in Afrikaans / Na aanleiding van die toename in tendense wat voorkom by die ontplooide soldate, byvoorbeeld aansoeke om verplasings nader aan die huis, afwesigheid sander verlof en alkoholmisbruik, het die navorser ondersoek ingestel na die effek van die ontplooiing op die soldaat en sy gesin. 'n Verkenningstudie is gekies om die probleemareas te verken. Die nominale groepstegniek is gebruik om die inligting te verkry vanaf die 16 gesinne wat deur doelbewuste seleksie gekies is. Die Die navorser het bevind dat daar wel verskeie probleme tuis ontstaan het as gevolg van die ontplooiing. Beide die blanke en Zoeloe gesinne het probleme ervaar as gevolg van die ontplooiing, alhoewel die probleme verskil het by die verskillende kulture. Verskeie aanbevelings is gemaak en sluit die samewerking van die maatskaplike werkers, kompanie bevelvoerders, eenheidsbevelvoerders om die omstandighede van die soldate in die ontplooiingsituasie, asook die van hulle gesinn, te verbeter. / M.A. (Maatskaplike Werk)