Apply for integration assistance for children and adolescents with mental disabilities or threatened mental disabilities

• Contact the responsible office.
• In a personal conversation, you will be shown possible assistance. This can be supplementary or in combination with help for upbringing or help from other rehabilitation providers.
• Integration assistance can only be granted if a suitable doctor certifies a mental or threatening mental disability.
• All parties involved (you, your child, the staff of the independent organization and the Youth Welfare Office) meet for a help plan discussion. In the help plan, it is determined how the help is to be structured and which goals are to be achieved.
• If necessary, a participation plan procedure is also carried out.
• You submit an application for integration assistance.
• The competent authority commissions an independent welfare organization to carry out the integration assistance.

• Identity card
• Proof of custody
  

  If required. For example: birth certificate, information from the custody register, family court decision on custody, power of representation.

• Specialist opinion
  

  A specialist's opinion on the existence of a mental disability or impending mental disability in your child. This can also be obtained by the Youth Welfare Office with your consent.

• Help for upbringing online
  With this online service, citizens who have been identified as needing help in a personal counseling session at the youth welfare office can make the subsequent application for help online. The online service also offers an information platform with topics on child and youth welfare and child endangerment.

Integration aids in outpatient form are free of charge. Outpatient services include, for example, assistance at school.
In the case of partial or full inpatient integration assistance in day care facilities, with caregivers or in facilities during the day and night, you must contribute to an appropriate extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office.

• § 35a Sozialgesetzbuch Achtes Buch (SGB VIII)

• Datenschutzinformation zum Onlinedienst „Hilfen zur Erziehung“