Força em Familia
The Força em Família project is funded by the European Social Fund – Innovative and/or Experimental Projects in the Social Area, with the support of REDE DLBC Lisboa, of which AAA is a member. The project aims to promote family strengths and healthy, responsible parenting, which lead to greater social inclusion for families with younger children. To this end, we have developed recreational-pedagogical workshops for parents and children and sessions for parents that enable them to: solve their children’s behavioural problems; answer questions about education; increase family strengths and skills; improve parent-child emotional relationships; increase family participation and access to resources in their community. The project is aimed at families with children aged 3 to 12 in the following areas: Alfama, Mouraria, Castelo, Graça/Sapadores, Quinta do Ferro (S. Vicente).
Project file
Project code: Lisboa-06-4740-FSE-000260
Main Objective: To promote family strengths and healthy and responsible parenting, which lead to greater social inclusion of families with minor children.
Region of Intervention: Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Beneficiary: Associação Auxílio e Amizade
Intermediary partner: DLBC – Lisbon Community-Based Local Development Network
Start date: 01/02/2021
Completion date: 31/08/2023
Total eligible cost: 72813.16
ESF funding: 50%
Information and Communication Guide for Beneficiaries
Specific objectives
Increase family competences by 50 per cent with a view to individual and family resilience processes;
Strengthen and increase the quality of affective relationships between parents and children by 50 per cent;
Prevent punitive or negligent parenting styles by 60 per cent through positive parenting;
Improve the quality of families’ relationships with their community by 50 per cent, increasing their sense of belonging;
Favour families’ identification of and access to existing resources in their communities by 50%, so that they feel more included.
Activities and Results
The Força em Família project is funded by the European Social Fund – Innovative and/or Experimental Projects in the Social Area, with the support of REDE DLBC Lisboa, of which AAA is a member. The project aims to promote family strengths and healthy, responsible parenting, which lead to greater social inclusion for families with younger children. To this end, we have developed recreational-pedagogical workshops for parents and children and sessions for parents that enable them to: solve their children’s behavioural problems; answer questions about education; increase family strengths and skills; improve parent-child emotional relationships; increase family participation and access to resources in their community. The project is aimed at families with children aged 3 to 12 in the following areas: Alfama, Mouraria, Castelo, Graça/Sapadores, Quinta do Ferro (S. Vicente).
Play Workshop
Story Workshop
Parents’ Workshop
Emotions Workshop
Board Game Creation
Community Workshops
Individualised Parental Counselling
Home Monitoring
Evaluation and Monitoring
As a result of this project, we will have more structured and healthier families, contributing to children’s healthy psycho-emotional development and minimising the effect of poverty, which is perpetuated through transgenerationality. The work carried out will minimise the effects of the low qualifications of parents/significant figures, favouring the social integration of children and their families. At the end of the project, what will be left on the ground are families that are more empowered and more involved in their community with a view to greater cohesion, and a board game with a recreational-pedagogical purpose and the prevention of risk behaviours, which will be replicated with other families in these territories and others.
