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The location is used to determine the responsible office for the selected administrative service. In most cases you can enter your place of residence to find the competent authority. However, there are also cases in which a different location must be specified. Here are some examples:

Birth certificateYou want to get married and need a birth certificate. You live in Hanover, but you were born in Celle. You must therefore state your place of birth, i.e. Celle.

Business registrationYou would like to register a business in Braunschweig. Your place of residence is Hanover. You must therefore state the location of your future business, i.e. Braunschweig.

Apply for a building permitYou would like to build a house in Wunstorf and therefore apply for a building permit. Her place of residence is currently Hanover. You must indicate the place where the house is to be built. In this case it is Wunstorf.

Apply for parenting help

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Every family has arguments from time to time. Arguments between parents or between parents and children. If the arguments become more and more frequent, this is a great burden. Parents and children sometimes need support. Help with parenting offers this support. Hilfen zur Erziehung is the name given to various offers of help for families with problems and in crisis situations.

If you would like to receive help from the youth welfare office, you must contact them. The help is not an obligation, but an offer. The first step is often a consultation with the youth welfare office. You can explain your problem there. The staff can give you suggestions on how to solve the problem.

Children, teenagers or young adults can also seek help from the youth welfare office on their own. The parents do not need to know about this if the young person does not want it.

Educational support is based on the interests and needs of the child or young person. The basis for granting help is the help plan procedure. The parents/guardians, the children or young people and the youth welfare office are involved in the help plan procedure.

There are different types of educational support:

  • An educator advises and supports parents with questions about parenting (parenting advice).
  • The social development of older children and young people is to be promoted through a pedagogical concept in a group (social group work).
  • A socio-educational specialist tries to help children or young people (educational support).
  • Children receive help if their parents have a mental illness.
  • Promoting the independence of the child or young person while maintaining a connection to the family (care assistant).
  • Care and support for a child in an emergency situation. For example, the child may be placed in a foster family for a certain period of time or in a residential youth welfare facility (home education, assisted living or intensive individual socio-educational care).
  • There is also integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities (not part of educational assistance). They are of course also entitled to educational assistance. The assistance and integration assistance can be provided alongside each other or in combination.

Who should I contact?

the local youth welfare office

Responsible authorities

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Landkreis Emsland - Fachbereich Jugend
Address: Ordeniederung 1 , 49716 Meppen
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Postal address: Post Office Box 15 62 , 49705 Meppen
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Telephone: 05931 44-0
Email: Get in touch
www: https://www.emsland.de
Opening Hours:

Mo. - Do. 08:30 - 12:30 Uhr u. 14:30 - 16:00 Uhr
Fr. 08:30 - 12:30 Uhr

Transport Connection:
Station Haltestelle Kreishaus
Bus: 993
Building Access
elevator available, wheelchair-accessible

Contact

Gerd Konen
Telephone: 05931 44-1406
Email: Get in touch
Room:
D 406
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Requirements

Educational support can be considered if it is clear that it will help the children or young people concerned and without it, an upbringing that is in the best interests of the child or young person cannot be guaranteed.

An important prerequisite for the success of the service is your willingness to accept help and work towards change.

What are the fees?

The costs shall be borne by the competent authority.

In the case of educational assistance in partial or full inpatient form, cost contributions may be charged.

Process flow

  • Contact the responsible office with your problems. It will decide whether help with upbringing is appropriate and what help 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.

What else should I know?

There is a legal entitlement to educational assistance. In addition to the parents and children, others can also make use of this help, for example a guardian or caregiver of the child.

Legal basis

Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)

Further Links

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Single points of contact of the state of Lower Saxony, Single points of contact of the countries of Europe, advice and assistance for EU citizens and their families.
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