Apply for integration assistance for children and adolescents with mental disabilities or threatened mental disabilities
Does your child have a mental disability or is at risk of one? Is his or her participation in society therefore restricted? Then integration assistance can help.
Competent Department
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 1 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Blumenthal
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 1 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Burglesum
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 1 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Vegesack
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 2 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Gröpelingen (Lindenhof)
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 2 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Gröpelingen (Ohlenhof, Oslebshausen)
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 2 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Walle
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 3 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Findorff
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 3 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Mitte, Östliche Vorstadt
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Huchting
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Neustadt
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Obervieland
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Woltmershausen
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 5 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Schwachhausen, Horn-Lehe, Oberneuland, Borgfeld
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 5 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Vahr
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 6 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Hemelingen
- Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 6 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Osterholz
Basic information
Some children and young people cannot participate equally in public life because of their disability. Integration assistance supports children and young people with disabilities so that they can lead a self-determined life. This integration assistance is aimed at children and young people with a mental disability or a threatened mental disability.
Integration assistance is divided into 4 groups:
- Services for medical rehabilitation
- Services for participation in working life
- Services for participation in education and
- Services for social participation
Integration aids can look like this
- in outpatient form, outside of inpatient facilities, for example, a school companion
- in day care facilities for children or in other semi-inpatient facilities
- in day and night facilities and other forms of residential care
- placement in full-time care
A mental disability can be, for example, an anxiety disorder, depression, psychosis, autism, ADHD or an eating disorder.
In addition to mental disabilities, there are also physical and mental disabilities. There may also be integration aids for these. Other agencies may be responsible for this. Ask your youth welfare office which agency is responsible for you.
Requirements
- Your child has or is at risk of having a mental disability. The condition is likely to last longer than 6 months.
- Your child's participation in social life is impaired.
- Young people are eligible. They can apply from the age of 15.
- Before the age of 15, their legal representatives file an application on their behalf.
What documents do I need?
- 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.
