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Our approach
Holistic, professionally grounded and reliable. We combine systemic methods with a complementary stance in our educational work.
Bringing education and psychiatry together
Mental health problems affect parenting, and conflicts in parenting affect mental health. That is why we pay attention not only to the educational side, but also to the psychiatric side.
Our team has extensive experience with families facing mental health problems, especially with young people who have a mental illness. We combine systemic methods, psychoeducation and an understanding of psychiatric conditions. In this way, we find a solution-focused path even when questions are complex.
What supports our professional work
- Daily peer consultation
- Regular supervision
- Training and further education
- Experience in systemic counselling and therapy
- Understanding of psychiatric conditions
What we pay attention to in every case
- Individual support with parenting questions
- Holistic support for the family
- Involving the family and its social environment
- Psychoeducation
- Skills training
- Building networks and community work
- Participation and empowerment
- Culturally and religiously sensitive practice
- Counselling in several languages, in particular Turkish
- Lasting follow‑up
How support works
Child and family support is applied for at the youth welfare office and approved there. Families do not have to go through this process alone.
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Enquiry
As a rule, the youth welfare office asks us to provide support. If families have questions, they can call us directly, and we will explain how to approach the youth welfare office.
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Care plan
We get to know the family. In the care planning meeting under § 36 SGB VIII (German Social Code, Book VIII), the family, the youth welfare office and we agree on the goals together.
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Support
We work reliably towards the goals and regularly review in the care plan what has changed.
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Moving on independently
The aim is to help families help themselves: the family goes its own way again, using its own strength.
For families: you have a say
In child and family support, families have the right to choose their provider and to express wishes. You can say which provider you would like to support you. The youth welfare office should meet your wish if it does not cause disproportionate additional costs (§ 5(2) SGB VIII).
Those entitled to benefits have the right to choose between facilities and services of different providers and to express wishes regarding how the support is arranged.