Do Elves Really Exist?

In the context of the work developed by the Family Intervention Unit (UIF) of the Directorate of Childhood and Youth, the technicians have long needed an additional tool to help them promote children's rights, both for the younger ones under the care of the Santa Casa and also for their respective parents. The book created by the UIF team will, therefore, from now on, be a working instrument that will help explain such important concepts as the "Right to education," the "Right to health," and the "Right to a family and love," among many others enshrined in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, from 1959.

In the work "Do Elves Really Exist?", the story begins with the appearance of an Elf, the protagonist of the children's story, who explains to Simão that all families face problems and that, in those situations, the solution is to ask for help from psychologists, social workers, social and childhood educators, and family intervention technicians, since together they "form a team."

"The friends I told you about are people who, together with families, think of solutions so that children and young people grow up happy and healthy. And so that everyone has their rights guaranteed," the Elf further explains.

Authorship: Family Intervention Unit - UIF
Review: Marta Brites Rosa, Maria Antas de Campos

Pagination and illustration: Catarina França

Year of publication: April, 2022
Publisher: Editorial Center of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
ISBN: 9789899021297