Question & AnswerQ&A (DSWD ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 104)
The main objective is to build the capabilities of families to improve their quality of life by transferring appropriate knowledge, skills, and technology to meet family needs and by organizing families as effective problem-solving units contributing to community development.
Prioritized areas include low-income or depressed barangays and areas with poor social services and facilities.
The Supervising Social Worker is responsible for organizing the Family Life Development core group.
The core group participates in evolving the community profile, identifying families for the program, recommending appropriate services, monitoring and evaluating program activities, participating in family activities, and assisting in family assessments.
Target families must be bona fide residents of the community, have a family income below the poverty line, demonstrate inadequate use of resources and insufficient knowledge in family management, and have multiple social welfare and health problems.
The key tools include the Family Genogram (Family Tree), Inventory of Family Stresses, and Inventory of Family Resources.
The Family Case Plan outlines priority problems, family resources, goals, capability building requirements, and external support needed, serving as a strategy and timeline for implementing interventions.
Family Life Values Sessions cover topics such as Effective Communication, Conflict Resolution, and the Meaning of Love and Marriage.
Family Enrichment Day is held quarterly and serves as an opportunity for celebration, sharing, and affirmation among target families and core group members.
Family associations encourage families to organize into support or peer groups, enabling them to play active roles in community and national development and fostering volunteerism among self-reliant families.