​Background

FamilieRaketten is a multi-component, family-oriented intervention that works through YMCA's social cafes and kindergartens in Denmark It involves fun games, shared meals, and pleasant moments as a family. In FamilieRaketten, a team of KFUM's Social Work's volunteers and an employees create comfortable and structured settings focusing on a balanced and thriving family life. Common for most of the participating families is that they wish to have a stronger local network and more resources as a family.

Objective

The objective is to examine whether FamilieRaketten is a suitable framework within the context of KFUMs Social Work, to identify potential optimization points, and to tentatively assess if FamilieRaketten has a positive impact on the families and participating children's well-being.

Method

The intervention will be tested, and further developed and adapted, in a feasibility study. The feasibility study will test both the acceptability and practicability of the intervention FamilieRaketten and of the research-based evaluation design. The evaluation design involves a cluster-randomized trial in four of KFUM's Social Work's institutions. After recruitment, the institutions will be randomly assigned to either the intervention or a waitlist control group. Each institution includes around four families with children between 3 and12 years of age.

Time frame

The research project will proceed from May 2022 to May 2024.

Funding

The research project is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with 3.748.923 DKK.