Help for young adults
Your way to the application
Contact the relevant youth welfare office and arrange a consultation. The staff will support you in making an application and choosing the right help for you.
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Why should I specify a location?
With the help of the location information, we can display the information, forms and services suitable for you and your responsible office.
Which location should I specify?
For example, your place of residence if you want to apply for a passport or the company location if you want to register a business.
Your local youth welfare office is responsible for the benefit.
- ID card
Help for young adults in outpatient form is free of charge. Outpatient means if you live with your parents or in your own apartment.
In the case of inpatient assistance for young adults, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent if you have an income or assets. Inpatient means that you live in a home or another form of assisted living.
Simply explained
The "assistance for young adults" includes various services that are suitable for young adults. The assistance is intended to help people between 18 and 21 to lead a life of personal responsibility and self-determination. When an application is made, it is examined which assistance is appropriate in the individual case.
Once the age of 21 has been reached, there may be continuation assistance in justified individual cases.
The Youth Welfare Office offers different, individual support. The support is oriented towards:
- Personal goals
- Wishes
- Skills
- Resources
Resources can be: the environment, friends and family.
Pedagogical specialists accompany the person to cope with everyday problems and help to develop a perspective. It does not matter whether the person lives with their parents, in their own apartment or in a residential group.
The following forms exist:
- Educational assistance - one person provides support in everyday life.
- Intensive socio-pedagogical individual support, in order to solve personal crises most and problems more and more by yourself.
- Home education - care in an institution outside the parental home.
- Assisted living - the way to an independent life within one's own 4 walls
- Integration assistance for young adults with a (threatening) mental disability.
Young people who have already received help from the Youth Welfare Office before they reached the age of majority and would like to continue to receive this help must apply for help for young adults themselves. Previously, the legal guardians (parents or guardians) were eligible.
What requirements must be met?
- They are between 18 and 21 years old. In justified individual cases, assistance can also be granted up to the age of 27 if the assistance has already been started beforehand.
- Due to your personality development you are not able to lead a self-determined, independent and self-reliant life.
- Assistance is suitable and necessary. This is checked by the youth welfare office.
- In case of a (threatening) mental handicap, you need a specialist medical opinion if you want to apply for integration assistance for young adults. The Youth Welfare Office can obtain this with your consent.
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