The General Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence, and Youth, attached to the Ministry of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families, and Equality, has organized technical workshops for exchanging experiences and best practices of the NAYFA program for children and adolescents in difficult or conflictive situations within the family environment.
NAYFA is a preventive, public, and free service, framed within the network of public resources for child and family care in Andalusia, aimed at supporting, guiding, and assisting families with children and adolescents who are beginning to show adaptation or behavioral problems, especially in the family context. During 2024, 543 families and 570 minors were assisted through this program.
Among the objectives of NAYFA are the promotion of socio-parental competences in children and adolescents to facilitate their adaptation and well-being in the family context and in the social environment, as well as the development and strengthening in parents of the necessary skills to positively exercise parenthood and promote the well-being of all family members, creating a space for interaction.
During the technical workshops, which had about fifty attendees, the implementation manuals and use of the NAYFA software application were presented, along with the results obtained and the characteristics of the new project for professional intervention analysis.
This software application integrates all the information gathered through the assessment protocols and tools applied to the families and minors assisted, allowing technical staff to record and exploit the data obtained throughout the intervention, and to promptly obtain the assessment of the results after applying the evaluation tools.
Furthermore, the meeting has allowed for an exchange of experiences among the different entities managing the program in Andalusia, to showcase the regional and provincial reality through joint reflection on improvement proposals and the acknowledgment of progress and achievements.
The workshops had the collaboration of the University of Seville and the participation of the Prevention Services of the territorial delegations of the Ministry of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families, and Equality, in addition to specialized entities and the Observatory of Childhood and Adolescence.