Family life support
Organizer
Familia RY
Type of organization
association
Familia is an association that supports intercultural families. Intercultural families as a term, refers to families in which family members have different cultural backgrounds. This usually means, that the partners were born and raised in different countries and speak different native languages. A child or children raised by a parent (s) with different cultural background (s), are also considered part of an intercultural family.? They support and avocate for inmigrants integration and provide resources to help all members of a family to adapt and understand the finnish system.
Main target of organization
Familia ry founded in 1988 is a national expert organisation of intercultural families. We support the wellbeing of intercultural families by offering peer support and volunteer activities, information, and advice. We also aim at making improvements in the social and legal systems, so that the needs of intercultural and multilingual families and Finns would be better met.
How do relate to integration
Helping to cope with intercultural families in the finnish setup.