The Social Care Unit will provide assistance and advice to any employee of the University who, at a given time, may be faced with this situation.
Large family
Large family title
What is the title of large family?
The title of large family is an official document that accredits the status of large family and reports various benefits throughout the state. This title is issued and renewed by the General Directorate of Families. The large family card entitles the holder to an individual card for each member of the family, for personal and non-transferable use, valid in Catalonia and in the whole of Spain, which allows the holder to enjoy advantages in relation to different institutions, entities and commercial establishments. The individual title is delivered along with the large family title.
Who is it for?
In families with one or two parents with three or more sons or daughters, whether or not they are common. It is also understood by large family other family compositions.
Processing
This procedure can be applied for online, except in the case of large families with children over the age of twenty-six with a recognised degree of disability (who can currently only apply in person). You can request an appointment in person at an office.
Large family title application
Benefit network for large families
The large family card allows access to a series of advantages and benefits, both in the institutional sphere from the various public administrations, as well as from commercial establishments and entities by means of theBenefit network for large families.
Single parent family
Single-parent family title
What is the title of single parent family?
The title of single-parent family is an official document that accredits the status of single-parent family and reports several advantages. This title is issued and renewed by the Department. The title of single-parent family gives the right to the possession of an individual title for each member of the family, of personal and non-transferable use, valid in Catalonia, which allows to enjoy certain advantages. The individual title is delivered along with the single-parent family title.
Who is it for?
In single-parent families, both special category and general category. A single-parent family is a family made up of one or more children under the age of 21, or 26 if they study, who live together and are financially dependent on a single person.
Processing
This procedure can be applied for online, except in the case of large families with children over the age of twenty-six with a recognised degree of disability (who can currently only apply in person). You can request an appointment in person at an office.
Application for the single-parent family certificate.
More information about the single-parent family certificate.
Advantage network for single-parent families
The title of single-parent family allows you to enjoy various benefits such as aid for access to housing according to the level of income, aid for birth, adoption, guardianship or foster care subject to the income level of the family unit, discounts on hostels of the National Network of Social Hostels in Catalonia, as well as discounts offered by collaborating establishments or entities.
More information on the benefits network for single-parent families.
Growing up in family
Training for parents
The Créixer en família program offers support spaces, virtual and face-to-face, for parents interested in learning about aspects that can positively influence the care, education and development of their children, inviting them to reflect and share. their experiences with other families.
What does it offer?
Growing up in a family is a training program aimed at guiding, strengthening and giving tools to families to play their educational role in a positive way, with the aim of enhancing recognition and confidence in the parents’ own abilities. It offers cycles of workshops, which are intended to be spaces for exchanging experiences between parents with children of similar ages, guided by professionals with expertise in family training in which the priorities are to reflect on why educate, what to do and how to do it.
How to participate
Growing up in a family offers two forms of participation to families: in person, through attendance at workshop cycles, and through the web, consulting articles and other resources of interest.
- The coffee of families. The Family Café is an open participatory space that, through social networks, allows you to exchange experiences, formulate doubts and queries, express opinions and, ultimately, make contributions about family education and the program’s workshops. This new virtual space is organized by territory, through the managers of the workshops that are carried out in each area of Catalonia.
- Resource box. In this space, families can access tolists and links to interesting resources and websites.
More information about Growing up in family.
Economic benefits for families with children
Economic benefits of the Generalitat de Catalunya
The purpose of these benefits is to provide financial support to families in which the birth, adoption, guardianship or foster care of one or more children has taken place, due to the attention they pay to them and in order to prevent situations. of vulnerability.
Who is it for?
Families in which a birth, adoption, guardianship or foster care has taken place as of September 1, 2020 (inclusive), as long as they do not exceed the income limit.