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Apply for integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities or impending mental disabilities

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Some children and young people are unable to participate in public life on an equal footing due to their mental disability. A mental disability can, for example, be an

  • anxiety disorder,
  • depression,
  • psychosis,
  • autism,
  • ADHD or
  • an eating disorder

be.

In order to support children and young people in leading a self-determined life, integration assistance can be applied for. This integration assistance is aimed at children and young people with a mental disability or the threat of a mental disability.

Eligible young people can submit an application themselves from the age of 15. Before the age of 15, their legal representatives submit an application on their behalf.

Integration assistance is divided into 4 groups:

  • Benefits for medical rehabilitation
  • Benefits for participation in working life
  • Benefits for participation in education and
  • Benefits for social participation

There are different forms of integration assistance, such as

  • outpatient, outside of inpatient facilities, for example school support,
  • Day facilities for children or other day-care facilities,
  • day and night facilities and other forms of accommodation,

placement in full-time care (for suitable persons).

The nearest responsible office to you:

Kreisverwaltung Bernkastel-Wittlich - Fachbereich 12 - Jugend und Familie

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Adress data

Address
Kurfürstenstraße 16
54516 Wittlich

Building access

Lift available, wheelchair accessible
P.O. Box
54504 Wittlich

Building access

Lift available, wheelchair accessible

Contact

Telephone
06571 14-0
Fax
06571 14-2500
Website
www.bernkastel-wittlich.de

Opening hours

Remark:

In Department 12 - Youth and Family, the employees of Department Head Bernd Bäumler (Tel.: 06571 14-2210) are committed to the well-being of families and our children and young people. They also help with educational problems.

Socio-educational advice for families, children and young people is provided by the Educational Services team led by Mathias Flesch (Tel: 06571 14-2430) and Adele Ruppenthal (Tel: 06571 14-2410). This is also where parents receive advice on integration assistance for mentally disabled children and young people.

In the area of child day care, the department is responsible for demand planning, specialist advice, accounting for staff costs and setting after-school care and crèche fees. The placement of childminders is also one of the department's tasks. Furthermore, the department advises providers of daycare centers and sports facilities on funding opportunities for construction projects.

The department is also responsible for child and youth protection, family education, youth welfare planning and district youth care.

In the "Financial Aid for Families" team, the team leaders Marion Baden-Caspari (Tel.: 06571 14-2067) and Stefanie Clemens (Tel.: 06571 14-2267) process applications for parental allowance and advance maintenance payments. The employees in this team also have the task of advising and supporting single parents in the exercise of personal care, the assertion of child maintenance claims and their own maintenance claims.

Advice and support is also provided to young adults up to the age of 21 with regard to the settlement of maintenance claims and mothers who are not married at the time of the birth of their child with regard to the possibilities and importance of establishing paternity, the realization of maintenance claims, the establishment of joint parental custody and the establishment of a guardianship. The long-term representation of the interests of children and young people takes place in the context of the processing of guardianships, curatorships and guardianships.

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