\uc9valuer pour mieux intervenir. \uc9valuer les r\ue9sultats et les processus pour apprendre \ue0 am\ue9liorer les pratiques d'intervention aupr\ue8s des familles vuln\ue9rables

Some families face strong vulnerability due to various factors such as personal and familiar history, poverty, isolation, etc. In such situations, the ability of parents to take care of their children can be limited. In Italy, in order to support vulnerable families, and particularly negligenting ones, home care interventions are widespread. However, the effectiveness of this kind of intervention has not been yet evaluated. This article reports the results of research-training-intervention project that involved 12 educators and 18 negligent families for an intervention period of 12 months. The evaluation allowed identifying the key factors in fostering the adaptation of these families

Reinforce social workers in assessing, planning and monitoring home care interventions

This paper presents a still in progress research about an outcome evaluation program on home care treatment, which has been requested from the University of Padua by the Local Health Authority of Belluno (Italy). The goal of the research is to measure and evaluate benefits obtained by children and families in 29 home care interventions and to enable professionals to do that. The project has worked out with social workers innovative practices and tools to assess the state of children and their families (CWBS and and instruments for the documentation and evaluation of the plans) at the intake (May 2009), and six and twelve moths later. First gathering of data showed that social workers identify more problems for parents than children (56% vs. 44%), but they work more with children then parents (45% vs. 55%). Also, they don\u2019t involve parents in plans, except on implementation of care actions. We decided with social workers to try to reinforce families\u2019 involvement through a new process of intervention witch social workers are going to try in situations, while others will carry on as usual. At the end of the project (June 2010) we will report the differences in outcomes between the two groups