TY - JOUR TI - Support as an essential factor in helping individuals in crisis AU - Siemaszko, Anna TI - Support as an essential factor in helping individuals in crisis AB - A family is an important link of the whole society. Its existence ensures the continuity of the social system. Properly functioning family is a guarantee of conditions for proper child development. The problem appears at the time of occur care and upbringing difficulties that family cannot manage with. In the past it was thought that the best kind of help for child is excluding from the problematic environment. This trend is currently being reversed. Both state policy as well as local community are the foundations for helping families in crisis. Various legislative solutions are implemented to protect the biological family. Social support activates aid mechanisms which are important to cope with difficulties. The aim of the article is, therefore, to show the links between the state’s social policy and social support. The complementarity of these services provides effective help, and thus prevents placing children in foster care. VL - 2020 IS - Volume 25, Issue 2 PY - 2020 SN - 1507-4285 C1 - 2449-6138 SP - 97 EP - 105 DO - 10.4467/24496138ZPS.20.014.12358 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-pracy-socjalnej/article/wsparcie-jako-niezbedny-czynnik-w-procesie-pomagania-jednostkom-w-kryzysie KW - family KW - social support KW - social policy