QA[4]EuroFam

EurofamNet has obtained a highly competitive COST Innovators Grant funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology in the Horizon Europe framework, enabling the Network to initiate a continuity project: QA[4]EuroFam, A quality assurance protocol for family support services in Europe: An evidence-based and culturally informed model for professional practice. This project, based on the previous work of the Network, aims to help 22 participating countries to implement the quality standards identified by EurofamNet in terms of family support and, thereby, improve the well-being of children and families. 

The new project will firstly design the quality assurance protocol that will be implemented by the participating countries by means of self-assessment through national working groups. The data obtained in each country will feed a national improvement plan that identifies both the strengths and good practices as well as the points for improvement. These plans will be translated into policy briefs to reach the political sphere and, finally, a series of European guidelines will be distilled from the lessons learned in all countries.

The project is expected to have an impact on the development of European recommendations on family support, on the management of support services at the national level, on the training of professionals who work with families and, in the medium and long term, in the well-being and quality of life of the service users.