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Family Health Partners in Regional Network Structures

Families with children with severe health problems are exposed to particular emotional, social, economic and time burdens. These result in further risks, which often lead to poor living and care situations for the families concerned. This is attributed, among other, to legal regulations that do not do justice to the respective individual life situations and the lack of competent information and counselling services. The overarching objective of the NEST project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a professional support facility for families with children in need of care that operates across sectors and service providers. The network support by so-called Family Health Partners \[Familien-Gesundheits-Partner; FGP\] aims to provide assistance and need-based individual care for all members in families with children in need of care. The medium-term goal of FGP support is to develop the family as a self-help system, i.e. as a self-competent, independently acting primary resource for the care and support of their children in need of care.