The aim of family support is to provide effective help through social work for individuals and families struggling with social or mental difficulties, or who find themselves in crisis situations. Family support also focuses on prevention, resolving crises, and helping people maintain their ability to manage everyday life.
We provide family support and child welfare services in the areas of Érd. Our work with families is strongly supported by the special services of the Érd Family and Child Welfare Center.
Our Professional Tasks
- Identifying families and individuals in our service area who struggle with social or mental health problems, based on referrals
- Personal contact in every case and providing information about the purpose and services of family support
- Social, life management, and mental health counseling
- Family care, including home visits, environmental assessments, and support for all family members
- Helping people in financial difficulty access available monetary and in-kind support
- Conflict management and assistance in restoring healthy family functioning
- Providing information and support in administration and paperwork
- Organizing community-building, individual, and group programs
- Helping unemployed individuals explore job opportunities
- Working with adults receiving regular social benefits, providing counseling, and developing skills and abilities
- Offering specialized support for people struggling with debt, housing problems, addictions, psychiatric illnesses, or disabilities
- Supporting social integration within the framework of integration contracts defined by asylum law
- Proposing and initiating new services when needed
- Providing youth counseling, information, and organizing programs
- Addressing the specific challenges faced by the Roma community
- Encouraging the formation of special support groups and self-help groups
- Collecting and managing donations
- Coordinating the Drug Coordination Forum of Érd and organizing drug prevention programs and activities
To Support the Physical and Mental Well-being of Children and Their Upbringing Within the Family:
- Providing information about children’s rights and available support, and helping families access these benefits
- Offering or arranging access to counseling in family planning, psychology, parenting, health, mental health, and addiction prevention
- Supporting expectant mothers in crisis situations with advice, social services, and access to child welfare services, particularly temporary homes for families
- Organizing leisure programs
- Assisting with official administration and paperwork
To Prevent Children from Becoming At Risk:
- Operating an early warning and referral system, involving non-state organizations and private individuals in prevention efforts
- Identifying the causes of endangerment and preparing recommendations for solutions
- Organizing cooperation with members of the referral system and coordinating their activities
- Providing information about the possibility of placing a child in hospital incubators with the intent to consent to adoption
- Providing school social work as part of child welfare services to help prevent risk situations
To Eliminate Situations of Endangerment:
- Supporting children and families through social work to resolve problems and restore healthy family functioning
- Helping resolve family conflicts, especially in cases of divorce, custody, or visitation
- Initiating the use of other child welfare services
- Initiating the use of basic social services
- Initiating the use of health care services
- Initiating the use of pedagogical specialist services
- Promoting the upbringing of children within their families
- Preventing children from becoming at risk
- Eliminating situations of risk for children
- Making recommendations for the application of child protection measures
- Organizing foster parent networks (the City of Érd has a service agreement with the Fészek Child Protection Association, which carries out this activity)
- Providing information about children’s rights and available support, and helping families access these benefits
- Organizing leisure programs
- Supporting families in handling official administration and paperwork
How Can I Access the Service?
The services of the Family and Child Welfare Service are available free of charge. They can be accessed in the following ways:
On a voluntary basis:
- Within the framework of basic care, anyone living in the city of Érd may use our services.
- The specialized services of the Family and Child Welfare Center, beyond its basic tasks, are available voluntarily to anyone living in the Érd district.
For those required to cooperate (within the Érd district):
- Obligatorily, in cases of official child protection measures
- Based on requests from official authorities
- On the basis of court orders or administrative decisions
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