Request help with education
Parents usually take care of the upbringing and care for a child. However, it may be useful for the state to help with the upbringing.
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Basic information
In every family there is a quarrel from time to time. Quarrels between parents or between parents and children. When the quarrels become more and more frequent, it is a great burden. Parents and children sometimes need support. Educational aids offer this support. Help for upbringing is the name for various offers of help with problems and in crisis situations of families.
If you would like to receive help from the Youth Welfare Office, you must contact them. The help is not obligatory, but an offer. The first step is often a consultation with the Youth Welfare Office. There you can explain your problem. The staff members can give you suggestions on how to solve the problem.
Children, adolescents or young adults can also get help from the Youth Welfare Office on their own. The parents do not have to know about this if the young people do not want it.
The help for upbringing is based on the interests of the child or young person. The basis for the granting is the help plan procedure. In the help plan procedure, the custodians, the children or adolescents and the youth welfare office are involved.
There are different types of help for upbringing:
- A pedagogue advises and supports parents in questions of upbringing (educational counseling).
- A therapist tries to help the family in group sessions (social group work).
- A psychological or social pedagogical specialist tries to help individual family members (educational assistance).
- Children get help when parents have a mental illness.
- Promoting the child's or adolescent's independence while maintaining a connection to the family (care assistant).
- Care and provision for a child in an emergency situation. For example, the child may be placed in a foster family or residential home for a period of time (home education or assisted living and intensive individual social pedagogical care).
- For children with mental disabilities, there is also the integration assistance (does not belong to the assistance for upbringing). Of course, they are also entitled to help in raising children. The assistance and the integration assistance can be granted side by side or in combination.
Requirements
Educational assistance is considered when it is clear that it will help the children concerned and that without it, an upbringing that is in the best interests of the child or adolescent cannot be guaranteed.
An important prerequisite for the success of the service is your willingness to accept help and to work on changes.
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Procedure
- Contact the responsible office with your problems. They will check whether educational assistance is appropriate and which types of assistance are 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.
More information
There is a legal entitlement to help with upbringing. In addition to the parents and children, others can also make use of this assistance, for example a guardian or caregivers of the child.
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Necessary Documents
- Please contact the responsible office.
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Competent Department
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 1 | Young People’s Social Services | Blumenthal Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 1 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Blumenthal
- +49 421 361 63743
- Am Sedanplatz 7, 28757 Bremen
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Department for Social Services | Social Services Centre 1 | Youth Social Services | Burglesum Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 1 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Burglesum
- +49 421 361 63744
- Am Sedanplatz 7, 28757 Bremen
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Department for Social Services | Social Services Centre 1 | Young People’s Social Services | Vegesack Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 1 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Vegesack
- +49 421 361 63745
- Am Sedanplatz 7, 28757 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 2 | Youth Social Services | Gröpelingen (Lindenhof) Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 2 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Gröpelingen (Lindenhof)
- +49 421 361 77231
- Hans-Böckler-Straße 9, 28219 Bremen
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Department for Social Services | Social Centre 2 | Youth Social Services | Gröpelingen (Ohlenhof, Oslebshausen) Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 2 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Gröpelingen (Ohlenhof, Oslebshausen)
- +49 421 361 82968
- Hans-Böckler-Straße 9, 28217 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 2 | Youth Social Services | Walle Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 2 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Walle
- +49 421 361 88500
- Hans-Böckler-Straße 9, 28219 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 3 | Youth Social Services | Findorff Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 3 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Findorff
- +49 421 361 99399
- Rembertiring 39, 28203 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 3 | Youth Social Services | Mitte, Östliche Vorstadt Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 3 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Mitte, Östliche Vorstadt
- +49 421 361 99399
- Rembertiring 39, 28203 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 4 | Youth Social Services | Huchting Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Huchting
- +49 421 361 79184
- Große Sortilienstraße 2-18, 28199 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 4 | Youth Social Services | Neustadt Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Neustadt
- +49 421 361 89143
- Große Sortilienstraße 2-18, 28199 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 4 | Youth Social Services | Obervieland Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Obervieland
- +49 421 361-89142
- Große Sortilienstraße 2-18, 28199 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 4 | Youth Social Services | Woltmershausen Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 4 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Woltmershausen
- +49 421 361 63746
- Große Sortilienstraße 2-18, 28199 Bremen
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Department for Social Services | Social Services Centre 5 | Youth Social Services | Schwachhausen, Horn-Lehe, Oberneuland, Borgfeld Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 5 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Schwachhausen, Horn-Lehe, Oberneuland, Borgfeld
- +49 421 361 52682
- Kurfürstenallee 130, 3. OG, 28211 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 5 | Youth Social Services | Vahr Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 5 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Vahr
- +49 421 361-58129
- Kurfürstenallee 130, 28211 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 6 | Youth Social Services | Hemelingen Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 6 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Hemelingen
- +49 421 361 63740
- Pfalzburger Straße 69a, 28207 Bremen
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Social Services Department | Social Centre 6 | Youth Social Services | Osterholz Amt für Soziale Dienste | Sozialzentrum 6 | Sozialdienst Junge Menschen | Osterholz
- +49 421 361 63741
- Pfalzburger Straße 69a, 28207 Bremen
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Fees / Costs
The costs are borne by the competent authority.
Contributions to costs may be levied in the case of assistance for upbringing in a partially or fully inpatient form.
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Updated on 09.09.2026