New paradigms in the area of family support in the local environment with the prospect of placing children in foster care

Abstract

At the end of 2015 there were more than 77,000 children in foster care in Poland. The former aid model appears to be ineffective and does not lead to the primary goal of significantly reducing the number of children in foster care. In this article, we have proposed a new paradigm in support families in need. Placing a family in the center of project and implementation of support is one of the determinants of the new perspective in foster care. In literature his paradigm is defined as a family-centered. The analysis of different types of foster care in family-centered paradigm allowed us to formulate practical and theoretical conclusions. They can be used both to create and optimize local family support programs and to inspire new research questions in the areas of social pedagogy, family pedagogy and social work.