Family program
FAMILY (Fostering Adaptive and Resilient Migrant Families) is a comprehensive, integrated model for supporting forcibly displaced migrant families, grounded in the concept of family resilience. It is based on the premise that a family—even when experiencing war, loss, and forced displacement—retains the capacity to adapt, rebuild, and co-create a new living environment, provided that the support system does not assume responsibility in place of the family but instead strengthens its own resources and competencies.
The FAMILY model combines five complementary operational modules: diagnostic-research, educational-workshop, coaching-advisory, health-psychological, and community-local. Each of these develops a different dimension of resilience—cognitive, emotional, organizational, health-related, and social—and their interaction creates a dynamic cycle of development and adaptation. The support process begins with an assessment of the level of family resilience, on the basis of which individualized support pathways are formulated. These pathways include education, competence development, emotional support, and participation in the local community.
The model is spiral and learning-oriented—each intervention becomes a source of information about effectiveness and directions for further development. Thus, FAMILY is not merely a support program but rather a resilience ecosystem, in which migrant families, local communities, and public institutions collaborate in building resilience, self-reliance, and social solidarity. In this perspective, integration is not understood as assimilation but as co-creation—a shared process of learning how to live together in conditions of diversity and uncertainty.
The comprehensive model is multi-layered and relational. It is based on three levels of functioning:
1. Micro level (family level) – focuses on intra-family processes such as communication, role distribution, emotional regulation, and the shared construction of meaning around migration experiences.
2. Meso level (local community) – includes the family’s relationships with the surrounding social environment: schools, institutions, neighbors, and organizations. At this level, networks of mutual support, trust, and shared responsibility are formed.
3. Macro level (systemic level) – concerns the structural determinants of resilience: public policies, institutional frameworks, access to services, and cultural norms.
All three levels are interconnected through feedback mechanisms—strengthening one level triggers adaptive processes in the others. For example, improved communication within the family (micro) may foster greater openness to relationships with neighbors (meso), which in turn can increase trust in institutions and participation in social life (macro).
As a result, a dynamic network of resilience emerges, in which the process of adaptation unfolds simultaneously across multiple levels and directions.
The FAMILY program pilot has been designed as a two-phase process, consisting of a preliminary pilot (Phase I) and a main pilot (Phase II). This structure enables staged testing of the program and the gradual expansion of the scale and complexity of activities while simultaneously reducing implementation risks.
The preliminary pilot (Phase I) has an exploratory and formative character and is implemented on a limited scale. Its objective is to examine the coherence and adequacy of the model’s assumptions, verify the functionality of tools and working methods, and assess the organizational feasibility of the program. Phase I allows for the identification of areas requiring clarification or modification before proceeding to the main pilot.
The main pilot (Phase II) has a validation-oriented character and involves the implementation of the refined model on a broader scale. Its objective is to evaluate the program’s effectiveness, the stability and replicability of outcomes, and the model’s potential for further implementation and dissemination.
The FAMILY pilot program has been designed as an iterative process, in which successive stages of testing lead to the gradual refinement of the model. The iterative development of the program involves cyclical progression through stages of planning, implementation, monitoring, analysis, and modification.
In practice, this means that:
· findings from the preliminary pilot are used to develop the Interim Program Model,
· results from the main pilot form the basis for preparing the Validated Program Model,
· modifications to the model are introduced in a documented and systematic manner,
· the coherence of the program’s key methodological and ethical principles is maintained.
The Program Framework and Curriculum document constitutes the first conceptual stage in the development of the family support program implemented within the FAMILY project. Its role is to establish a coherent set of theoretical, methodological, and programmatic frameworks that organize the logic of the intervention and define the direction for further work on the model. This document serves as the foundation upon which all subsequent stages of program design, testing, and validation are built.
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The Pilot Program Implementation Plan serves as a strategic management document integrating the methodological, organizational, and evaluation aspects of the pilot implementation of the FAMILY program. This document structures the pilot implementation process, defines the timeframes and resource framework, and specifies mechanisms for quality monitoring as well as decision-making regarding the further development of the program.
As an implementation management tool, the Pilot Program Implementation Plan enables transparent and controlled progression between successive stages of program development—from testing, through validation, to preparation for broader implementation and scaling. The document supports the coherence of activities carried out in different locations and serves as a reference point for implementation, coordination, and evaluation teams. In this sense, the Pilot Program Implementation Plan not only describes the pilot process but also actively supports its quality and effectiveness.
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The Final Program Model presented in this document constitutes a coherent, operational proposal for a support program designed for testing under pilot conditions. Its structure, scope of activities, and methodological solutions reflect the assumption that effective support for families requires simultaneous interventions at the individual, relational, and systemic levels, while maintaining the flexibility necessary for working with groups with diverse needs.
The document organizes and integrates the key elements of the program—from theoretical and methodological frameworks, through the structure of components and working tools, to the assumptions underlying the pilot, monitoring, and evaluation. In this way, the Final Program Model functions as a bridge between the program concept and its practical application, creating the foundation for systematic testing and further development of the program.
This document presents the conclusions and recommendations resulting from the implementation of the preliminary pilot phase of the FAMILY programme (Fostering Adaptive and Resilient Migrant Families), conducted in Warsaw between September 2025 and the first half of December 2025. The document constitutes part of the iterative development process of the FAMILY programme and serves as a basis for the further refinement of the support model for families with experience of forced migration.
The preliminary pilot phase was implemented as the first stage of programme testing and had an exploratory and formative character. Its main objective was the practical verification of the methodological, organisational and operational assumptions of the FAMILY programme model under real-life conditions. The pilot made it possible to assess the functionality of individual programme components, analyse the experiences of participating families, and identify factors facilitating and hindering the implementation of activities.
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The Interim Program Model constitutes an updated and refined operational version of the support programme developed on the basis of the Program Framework and Curriculum document and the earlier version of the Final Program Model. The model was prepared by the project’s team of experts based on literature review, research and conceptual work, practical experience in working with families affected by forced migration, and conclusions resulting from the implementation of the preliminary pilot phase of the FAMILY programme.
