Apply for socio-educational family support
Service description
Social-educational family assistance takes place directly in the family and in their home. The family receives support in everyday matters and in the form of therapeutic processing of problem situations. To this end, a social education specialist visits the family regularly for several hours a week. The assistance is tailored to the specific everyday life of the family.
Social pedagogical family assistance is particularly helpful for single parents who are under a lot of stress from coping with everyday family life.
Individual goals are developed with the family, based on the respective resources and abilities of the family members. Goals can include:- Restoring and strengthening parenting skills
- Uncovering the strengths and abilities of individual family members
- Support in coping with everyday life
- Strengthening self-esteem
- Strengthening the ability to deal with conflict
- Improving relationships with each other
Procedure
Contact the relevant authority with your problems. They will decide whether educational assistance is appropriate and what kind of assistance is available.
The relevant authority will help you with the application and also advise you on other options for assistance.
Once educational assistance has been approved, all parties involved will work together to draw up an assistance plan. This plan will specify how educational assistance will be provided in your case. It is important that all family members benefit from this.Who should I contact?
Youth welfare office
Prerequisites
Social-educational family support must help the children affected. Social-educational
family support can assist you with the following problems:- You have problems organising your everyday life.
- They need support when dealing with public authorities, schools and doctors.
- You have difficulties caring for and bringing up your children.
An important prerequisite for the success of the service is your willingness to accept help and work towards change.
What fees are incurred?
The costs of socio-educational family support are borne by the youth welfare office.
Processing time
Note: Social-educational family
assistance is primarily intended to help families help themselves. It aims to solve a family's problems in the long term and is therefore usually designed to be long-term. The exact duration in each individual case is determined by the youth welfare office together with all parties involved and is specified in the assistance plan.Legal basis
Short text
- Apply for socio-educational family support
- Form of educational assistance
- Help on site in the family
- Orientation towards the needs of the family
- Goal: Strengthening and support
- Responsible: Youth welfare office
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