§ 31SGB VIII
Socio-educational family support
The heart of our work. We support families in their everyday lives over a longer period, so that they can once again manage parenting, conflicts and crises using their own strength.
- Legal basis § 31 SGB VIII (German Social Code, Book VIII)
- For whom Families with children and young people
- Duration usually a longer period
- Enquiry via the youth welfare office
For whom
For families in which parenting and everyday life are currently not working out on their own. The support is aimed at the whole family: parents, children and young people.
What we do
- We support parents with questions about parenting and strengthen what is already going well in the family.
- We help to calm conflicts and to cope with crises.
- We support families in dealing with public authorities, schools and other institutions.
- We involve the family's social environment and build networks.
- We keep an eye on mental health problems of parents and children and use psychoeducation.
Aim
Helping families help themselves: the family should be able to manage its everyday life on its own again. What we work on together is set out in the care plan by the family, the youth welfare office and CareSpective.
Through intensive care and support, socio-educational family support is intended to help families with their parenting tasks, with coping with everyday problems, with resolving conflicts and crises and in dealing with public authorities and institutions, and to help them help themselves. As a rule, it is designed to last for a longer period and requires the family's cooperation.
How the support begins
Family support is applied for at the youth welfare office and approved there. Professionals at the youth welfare office request the support directly from us. How support works
