From assessing needs to designing and evaluating programs: Case study of a family support program in Portugal

Maria Manuela Calheiros, João Graça and Joana Nunes Patrício

Children and Youth Services Review, 2014, vol. 36, issue C, 170-178

Abstract: In the last years, researchers have been emphasizing the importance of promoting needs-led, context-specific, user-centered services in the context of child protection. However, policy-makers and service planners around the world largely depend on US-based research evidence of what is effective in the domain of family support. This work presents, in two studies, the process of design and evaluation of a targeted family support intervention that was developed and implemented in Portugal.

Keywords: Needs assessment; Family support; Need-service matching; Program design; Program evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.11.012

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