Home-care interventions: which participation? Social workers and parents discuss about an ongoing action-research

• Main Authors: Andrea Petrella, Sara Serbati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 2017-11-01
• Series: Encyclopaideia
• Subjects: Valutazione; Educativa domiciliare; Partecipazione; Progetto educativo
• Online Access: https://encp.unibo.it/article/view/7417

Home-care interventions are carried out for a fixed amount of weekly hours by the home-care worker within the family, in the perspective of giving support to the parents and contributing to the care plan. This article is based on a research project funded by the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto, which intends to identify and disseminate effective methods for the implementation of home-care interventions. The Municipality of Trento, together with two local social cooperatives and the Lab of Research and Action on Family Education of Padua University, has introduced new instruments and approaches aimed at critically analysing home-care interventions. The article gives voice to parents and social workers’ opinions collected through four focus-groups, which intended to assess how new instruments and strategies introduced in the frame of home-care interventions had led to a greater involvement of parents and children in the definition and evaluation of care plans.