Request help for upbringing in full-time care

• Contact the responsible youth welfare office.
• The youth welfare office will explain to you in a personal meeting what help is available.
• The youth welfare office will try to support you so that your child can continue to stay with you.
• If the youth welfare office and you come to the conclusion that it makes sense to place your child in a foster family, you can apply for "educational assistance".
• All parties involved (you, your child, the caregivers from the care facility 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 which goals are to be achieved.
• The youth welfare office looks for a suitable foster family. You can express your wishes. If there are several possible foster parents, you can help choose one.
• The youth welfare office regularly checks whether the help is still suitable.

• 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.

• 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 for help with upbringing in full-time care are largely borne by the youth welfare office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office about this.

• § 33 Sozialgesetzbuch Achtes Buch (SGB VIII)

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