Apply for educational assistance

Every family has arguments from time to time. Arguments between parents or between parents and children. If the arguments become more and more frequent, this is a great burden. Parents and children sometimes need support. Help with parenting offers this support. Hilfen zur Erziehung is the name for various support services for families with problems and in crisis situations.

If you would like to receive help from the Youth Welfare Office, you must contact them. Help is not an obligation, but an offer. The first step is often a consultation with the youth welfare office. You can explain your problem there. The staff can give you suggestions on how to solve the problem.

Children, adolescents or young adults can also seek help from the youth welfare office on their own. Parents do not need to know about this if the young person does not want it.

Educational support is geared towards the interests of the child or young person. The basis for granting assistance is the assistance plan procedure. The guardians, the children or young people and the youth welfare office are involved in the help plan procedure.

There are different types of educational assistance:

• A pedagogue advises and supports parents with questions about parenting (parenting advice).
• A therapist tries to help the family in group sessions (social group work).
• A psychological or socio-educational specialist tries to help individual family members (parenting support).
• Children get help if their parents have a mental illness.
• Promoting the independence of the child or young person while maintaining a connection to the family (care assistant).
• Care and support for a child in an emergency situation. For example, the child may be placed in a foster family or a residential home for a certain period of time (home education or supervised forms of living and intensive individual socio-educational care).
• For children with mental disabilities, there is also integration assistance (not part of educational assistance). They are of course also entitled to educational assistance. The assistance and integration assistance can be granted alongside each other or in combination.