Apply for social pedagogical family assistance

Contact the responsible office with your problems. They will decide whether educational assistance is appropriate and which assistance is available.
The responsible office will help you with the application and also advise you on other help options.
Once the child-raising support has been approved, all parties involved will draw up a support plan together. This will set out how the educational support should be organized in your case. It is important that all family members benefit from it.

• 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.

The costs of socio-pedagogical family assistance are borne by the youth welfare office.

How long does it take to process

Socio-pedagogical family assistance is primarily intended to be help for self-help. It is intended to solve a family's problems in the long term and is therefore usually designed for a longer period of time. The exact duration in each individual case is determined by the youth welfare office together with all parties involved and set out in the assistance plan.

• § 31 Sozialgesetzbuch Achtes Buch (SGB VIII)

• Amt für Soziale Dienste - Erziehungsberatung
• Datenschutzinformation zum Onlinedienst „Hilfen zur Erziehung“