Intensive help and support for failing families with children in a residential form, a way to return to life.From a practitioner’s experience

This article describes a social service that works intensively with families with children who are socially excluded.It involves working with parents who have very low personal and parental competence, repeatedly fail and have been dependent on the social assistance system for a long time.The main goal of the service is to preserve families, improve their functioning and prevent the placement of the child or children in a system other than the original family.The service is provided mainly in a residential form, where parents learn predominantly by imitation and their own experience.The service was registered in 2020, and its current form is the result of a several-year transformation of a residential facility for children with an order for institutional education.This type of service is unique in the Czech Republic.The article describes the practical aspects of providing the service.