On the Journey to Adequate Parenting is a collaborative group project between The Centre of Excellence on Social Welfare in Eastern Finland (ISO) and the wellbeing services counties South Savo, Kainuu, and North Savo. The project’s aim is to strengthen the conditions for adequate parenting in child protection client families by developing the support provided to parents. The task is to develop multidisciplinary expertise and approaches in child protection, provide workers with new skills, methods, and tools for working with families and strengthen the expertise of workers and collaborators. The idea is that every parent can be supported on their journey to adequate parenting. The group project will be implemented from August 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026. The development themes, work packages, and content are shared across all sub-projects. ISO leads the project, coordinates co-development among sub-projects, and provides research-based expert support. Sub-projects are responsible for their own areas and participate in co-development. Project Goals: 1. Renew ways of multidisciplinary collaboration: Develop the operational structures and practices of multidisciplinary teams working with the networks of employees and clients. 2. Provide expertise and tools: Equip child protection staff and the multidisciplinary network of partners with skills, concrete operational models, tools, and metrics for working with families and assessing effectiveness. 3. Promote involvement: Strengthen the participation of children, young people, and parents, and create systematic child protection’s empirical expertise activities in the wellbeing services counties. The multidisciplinary teams implement experiments in multidisciplinary parenting work in child protections client work and develop the model and its application options throughout the project. Strengthening the competence of workers is an essential part of integrating new, more effective models, methods, and metrics into child protection practices. Testing these approaches requires training, coaching, encouragement, and support, all of which can be implemented as part of the project's activities. Promoting empirical expertise is still in its early stages in the wellbeing services counties, and the project's activities integrate empirical expertise closely into the development of client work. Utilizing digital tools and connections, the project facilitates research-based, cross-regional child protection development, addressing current challenges such as the increasing placement of children outside the home. As a result of the project, the multidisciplinary expertise, collaboration, operational models, and organizational culture of child protection will evolve so that urgent and costly child protection measures will be needed less frequently. The results of the project indicate that child protection services will be better equipped to meet the needs of families. The project's actions aim to make the effectiveness of both customer service and development work visible.