In 2023, Social Security will support almost 1,000 girls and boys at eight family meeting sites in the region.

In 2023, the Government of Castile-La Mancha provided assistance to almost 1,000 girls and boys in eight family meeting places in the region and conducted more than 7,300 interviews.

Additionally, during FY 2023, this regional Family Meeting Places program served 689 families and 979 youth, including 500 boys and 479 girls, through multidisciplinary teams of psychologists, social workers and educators, and entities engaged in these services, where the meeting of the minor with the non-custodial parent and other members of the biological family is ensured.

The family meeting place is intended for the fathers, mothers or legal guardians, brothers, sisters or extended families of the minors on whose behalf the intervention is being carried out, provided that at least one of them or the minor himself is registered or has his usual place of residence. in the Autonomous Community of Castile-La Mancha.

These centers bring together family members in crisis due to separation, divorce, couple breakdown or family conflict, with temporary psychosocial and socio-educational interventions by specialized professional teams.

Thus, the purpose of this resource is to maintain a visitation regime, seeking to normalize the relationships of different parts of the family, giving various agents full autonomy and independence from the resource, promoting the emotional and affective development of minors.

Until 2022, there were seven family meeting places: one in the capital of each province and two more in Talavera de la Reina and Alcazar de San Juan. In April 2023, a new center was opened in Hellin, fulfilling the commitment of President Emiliano Garcia-Page to improve the quality of care for children and parents in the province of Albacete.

Likewise, the program at the regional level is carried out in collaboration with the Amifam and Colabora divisions, with a total amount allocated for the program for 2023 of 1,489,779.20 euros, through the provision of a subsidy through the Childhood and Family Appeal of the Directorate General. Childhood and family.