Apply for integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities or impending mental disabilities
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzSome 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).
(for adults + children and teenagers)
The purpose of integration assistance for people with disabilities is to prevent an impending disability or to eliminate or alleviate a disability and its consequences. A further aim is to enable or facilitate the participation of people with disabilities in life in the community.
The benefits of integration assistance include in particular
- Early intervention services and early identification of disabled children and children at risk of disability,
- curative education services for children who have not yet started school,
- Help with an appropriate school education,
- help with school education for an appropriate profession,
- Help to attend a university,
- benefits for medical rehabilitation,
- Benefits for participation in working life,
- Services in the work area of a recognized workshop for disabled people,
- Benefits for participation in life in the community.
Persons who are not only temporarily mentally, emotionally or physically disabled or at risk of such a disability and whose ability to participate in society is significantly restricted are entitled to integration assistance. The benefits of integration assistance are subordinate to the benefits of other social service providers/rehabilitation providers (e.g. health insurance, pension insurance providers, employment agency, accident insurance providers).
If the personal (belonging to the group of people) and financial requirements (income and assets check) are met, the specific need for participation due to the disability is determined by means of individual participation planning together with the person concerned. It is then determined which integration assistance measure is suitable to cover these participation needs. Every person with a disability who submits an application should receive support that is tailored to their personal needs. The individual participation plan also sets out the goals that are to be achieved with the specific measure within a specified period of time.
If the municipal administration becomes aware of a need, an employee of the social services department for integration assistance will clarify in an initial meeting with the person requesting assistance whether there is a need for integration assistance services in accordance with Chapter 6 of SGB XII.
If so, the requirements (belonging to the group of people, financial requirements) for the granting of benefits are checked in the subsequent application process. Individual participation planning is carried out together with the person making the request, in which the need for participation is determined and a specific measure of integration assistance is defined.