Testing of New Methods for Extending Family Use of Social and Rehabilitation Sevices

The aim of the research is to discover alternative resources families can use to solve problems they encounter in their everyday lives and how to organize them in order to obtain desired effects. With regard to its goals the survey seeks to answer following questions: (1) which available formal and informal resources families can utilize to satisfy their members' needs, (2) what determines utilization of resources, (3) how do formal and informal resources interact, and (4) what are possibilities for a development of alternative types of resources and how should these be organized to achieve their optimal utilization.