Experience in the application of the protocol of good practices in positive parenting from the territorial team of social services area I in Asturias (Spain)

Abstract

In 2009, the Family Educational Orientation Program (POEF) was developed in Navia (Asturias), during the piloting phase. At this time, a cyclical process of planning - execution - evaluation was started, as it is inherent in social sciences. This moment wasn’t understand as final point, as if it were the finalization of an adaptation process; However, from its origin, we have tried to adapt to the context. This is determined by the social and educational changes of each moment, to give adapted answers to the needs of people. At that time, we considered that the only initial approach of the program had been done. This is why we continued through a dialectic process between theory and practice, and we designed an
adapted tool to our work environment with the main aim of the social services which is the compensation of inequalities. Furthermore, the priority objective of this tool is become an ‘positive action measure’, we should understand ‘positive action’ as those actions or interventions that are carried out in a group in which there is an inequality situation in order to decrease or eliminate this social decompensation. It could be said that this project has two parts. In the first one, in different municipalities in the area, the ‘guide-program for the development of emotional, educational and parental competences’ designed by the professor Dr. Raquel-Amaya Martínez González from Oviedo University, is developed by technicians from social services. From the beginning, we value the program as a necessary tool, very effective and valuable due to its multiplying and preventive impact. In the second one, after the call by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces the ‘certificate of positive parenthood’ is obtained. Its aims is to promote the positive exercise of parenthood and support positive parenting in the policies and services public of the Local Governments and association networks. The initiative was
a clear opportunity to optimize the management in favor of interdisciplinary coordination, awareness, training, citizen promotion and the prevention of risk situations. Besides, different social agents are invited to add this philosophy to their objectives or lines of action. This follows the recommendation of the Council of Europe 2006.