Lagarde, Françoise <br/><br/>
Early Prevention at Home: A Literature Review and a Description of Social and Family Workers in France 

 -  2011.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Although currently little is said about the benefits of intervening in the postnatal period and undertaking early prevention actions, the authors of this paper feel it is essential to support and assist families during this particular period of their life. Among the various professionals intervening at home, social and family intervention workers have been fulfilling a specific role for many years. Licensed social workers bring domestic aids to help families in the organization of everyday life, the care and education of children, and support for social integration. Their specific strategy of intervention is based on “doing,” “doing with,” and “making do.” They bring professional support in the relationship to both parents and children, with long-term, repeated interventions at home. This family alliance allows them to improve parental skills and promote the child’s interests. Their action is based on and funded in the framework of other social-intervention organizations: programs of the Caisses d’Allocations Familiales and the Caisses d’Assurance Maladie for struggling families, or programs for child welfare by the offices of the Protection Maternelle et Infantile and Aide Sociale à l’Enfance. The social and family workers are actively involved in medical, psychological, and social networks in an attempt to support the child during the perinatal period by following previously established examples of the perinatal networks of the Hauts de Seine. The authors of this paper share their knowledge in this domain. The first part addresses the context and missions of social and family workers. The second part presents three interventions in different domains. The last part discusses the importance of supervision.