Oficinas de Pais [Parenting Workshops]

This initiative was created to help parents with disabled children to guide their children in the process of integrating into society, enabling them to support other parents in similar situations under the supervision of professionals.

Over the course of the project, the number of people involved increased and its geographical scope was extended, eventually leading to the establishment of 60 emotional support groups, actions in 14 districts and the involvement of 550 parents.

The Parenting Workshops operated in partnership with the Associação Pais-em-Rede parents network, the University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences (ISPA), the General Directorate for Health and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

In order to bring together parents’ testimonies and to publicise the initiative and the results achieved, the Foundation supported the publication of the brochure Networks Built by Parents, which came out in December 2015.