Educational assistance in plain language

Sometimes there are problems in families.
For example:

• Fights between the parents
• Fights between the parents and the children

Sometimes there are more and more fights.

This is very stressful for everyone.

Then parents and children need support.

This support is called:
parenting support.

Would you like to use educational support?

Then you need to submit an application.

• What educational support is available?
• Who can receive educational support?
• What does educational support cost?
• Where do you make an application?
• What do you need for the application?
• Where can you get help?

Educational support is a service for families.

There are various forms of educational support.

For example:

• Parenting advice
  
  Parents have questions about parenting.
  
  Then they can talk to professionals.

• Social group work
  
  Children and young people meet in a group.
  
  They learn to get on well with others there.
  
  The technical term is: social group work.

• Educational support
  
  A specialist helps the child.
  
  For example, if there are problems in the family.
  
  Or with problems at school.
  
  The technical term is: educational support.

• Support in difficult situations
  
  For example:
  When parents are very ill.

• Care for young people
  
  Young people should become independent.
  
  But they should still have contact with their family.
  
  Then they get help from a specialist.

• Help outside the family
  
  Sometimes a child is in an emergency situation.
  
  Then the child can live with a foster family.
  
  Or the child can go to a residential home.
  
  The technical term is:
  Home education or assisted living.

Educational support is for:

• Children
• Adolescents
• Parents

It is important:

The help should be good for the child.

Parents and children must agree to the help.

Everyone must cooperate.

It is also important:

Children and young people can seek help from the youth welfare office on their own.

They can get help there.

Parents do not need to know about it.

In most cases, the youth welfare office pays for the help.

But:

Sometimes the children live outside the family.

For example:

• In a foster family
• Or in a residential group.

The parents may then have to pay part of the costs.

The Youth Welfare Office will explain this to you in detail.

You want to use the educational assistance?

Then you need to submit an application to the youth welfare office.

Or with an independent provider.

For example, with the city's social services.

The application is informal.

This means:
You can simply write the request.

The discussions are confidential.

This means:
Other people don't find out about it.

Do you have questions about educational assistance?

The local youth welfare office can help you.

Don't know where the nearest youth welfare office is?

Look on the website of your city.

Or search the internet for:

"Youth welfare office + name of your city"