Famiglie vulnerabili: un’esperienza di «educativa domiciliare»

Abstract

This article reports the results of a participative research-training-intervention project that involved 12 educators and 18 vulnerable families over an intervention period of 12 months. Some families face great vulnerability due to various factors such as personal and familiar history, poverty, social isolation, etc. In such situations, the ability of parents to take care of their children can be rather limited and leads to situations of child-neglect. In Italy, in order to support vulnerable families, home care interventions are widespread. The research aim was to understand if and how the home care intervention is effective to answer the needs of these families. The use of assessment tools at different times of the intervention (T0, T1, T2) allowed the use of before-after comparison of measures that enabled us to evaluate the results, confirming the effectiveness of the intervention itself. at the same time, research used a variety of methods, using interviews, focus group, case-files analysis. All data collected were analyzed in relation to each other in a reflective process with research participants, considering not only outcomes of interventions, but rather also the procedural aspects and content of the interventions themselves, with the aim to try to identify the key factors fostering the adaptation of these families.