The Family Support programme provides intensive, time limited in-home support to families as an alternative to the admission of children into care. This programme also works with families when children are in foster care and when efforts are being made to return them to their parents' care. It is intended both to alleviate the crisis and to help the family develop new coping skills so that they can better manage the crises they will encounter in the future. The focus is on identifying and working with the family's strengths in order to keep the family together.
