Özet:

The primary priority in relation to children in need of protection is the care within their own family, but if this is not possible, it can also be carried out outside their family. Outside of the family care institution includes care, childbirth and protective family service models. In developed countries, protective family service occupies an important place in the care models. In Turkey, the family protection service has not been sufficiently developed. Therefore, in this quality research first researched the causes of this and tried to understand the role of civil society organizations in the protective family practice. For this purpose, deep discussions were conducted with the NGOs working on the subject. As a result of the work, the emphasis was given to promotional activities for protective family service, the improvement of staff in both quality and quantity, the increase in payments to protective families and the establishment of professional protective family. The talks show that protective family associations in our country see functions similar to the independent protective family agencies in the UK (education, promotion, psychosocial support), but they need to be developed. This is because protective family associations are inadequate in both human and financial resources. Therefore, it was concluded that protective family associations should be supported both material and spiritual.

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