The City's Family Support increases into account the increasing demand of existing social problems as a result of the economic crisis, intervening the Department of Social Care in a total of 17 cases over the year 2012.
The actions of this program of educational and psychosocial are aimed primarily at guiding, supporting and empowering families with relationship problems and coexistence in order to prevent and deal with these situations.
Above all, the actions carried out are for the benefit of its most vulnerable, such as children, the elderly and women, avoiding situations or family separation disintegration.
The program also aims to empower parents in the proper exercise of their role.
The features that have program targeting families are families with children at risk or distress, or disadvantaged families at risk, single parents with any difficulties, social high-risk pregnancies, families where domestic violence occurs and issues of family conflict and / or situations of separation or divorce.
The municipal social services are detecting a progressive increase in the cases of households that have this problem and from the Department of Social Care has continued to do so despite interventions to have suffered economic decline subsidies granted the rest of government to municipalities to develop these programs.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana