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Apply for intensive individual socio-educational support Partnerschaft und Familie

Adolescents and young adults in difficult life situations can get help to become more independent and better able to cope in society.

  • Basic information

    Intensive individual socio-educational support promotes the integration of adolescents and young adults into social life. It is a type of educational support service. The aim is to provide age-appropriate support at school and outside of school through supportive and accompanying services.

    The young person is accompanied by a pedagogical specialist over a longer period of time.

    The support can take place at home, in the young person's own home or in an educationally supervised residential group.
    The aim is for the educational specialist to prepare the young person for an independent and self-reliant life. They help the young person to find friends or other confidants who will continue to accompany and support them through their lives.
    If the youth welfare office determines that young people and young adults need such help (have educational needs), they will receive this help from the youth welfare office.

    Requirements

    • You are a parent or guardian for a child (the custodial person).
    • You do not manage to care for and educate the child in a way that is good for the child.
    • The help in the form of intensive individual social pedagogical measure is suitable and necessary.
    • If you are a young person of legal age and you apply for help yourself, you must not be more than 21 years old. There are also exceptions: then you may be no more than 27 years old.

  • Procedure

    As a parent or guardian, you must submit an application for educational assistance.
    As a young adult, you can also submit an application yourself. This application is called "Application for assistance for young adults".

    • Contact the relevant youth welfare office.
    • The youth welfare office will explain to you in a personal meeting what help is available.
    • If the youth welfare office thinks that you need help in the form of intensive individual socio-educational support, you can submit an application for "educational support".
    • All parties involved (you, your child, the caregiver and the youth welfare office) will meet for a help plan discussion. The help plan sets out how the help is to be organized and what goals are to be achieved.
    • The youth welfare office looks for a suitable specialist. If there are several options, they can help choose.
    • The youth welfare office regularly checks whether the help is still suitable.

  • Necessary Documents
    • identity card/passport

      If a German identity card/passport is to be authenticated, a written proof of what this authentication is required for must be brought along.

    • Proof of custody

      For example: birth certificate, information from the custody register or decision of the family court on custody.

  • Competent Department

  • Online Services

    • 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.

  • Fees / Costs

    Intensive individual socio-educational support in outpatient form is free of charge. Outpatient means when your child still lives with you.
    In the case of intensive socio-educational inpatient care, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Inpatient means that the young person lives in a residential facility or in his or her own apartment. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office about this.

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The official information in German is complete and correct. 13.11.2025

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