[Theory and methods of the project "Hjemme er bedst" (Home is best)]

The purpose of the project "Home is best" is to avoid having to take away children from their family and to bring back children who have already been taken away from their family. The Project offers parents a course, if they want to, in which a counsellor works intensively with the family in their own home for a period of 6 weeks. After one year, during which 65 families with 110 children had participated, the results obtained were as follows: 12% of the children came back to their homes. 15% of the children had not been taken away from their families. 79% of the children participated in the project as preventive arrangement. The project resulted in lowering the cost by approx 1.3 mill. Dkr.