Förderung junger Menschen in schwierigen Lebenslagen

As a certified training provider, do you want to provide individual support to young people in difficult circumstances? You can receive funding from the Jobcenter for this.

The target group of support for hard-to-reach young people are young people between the ages of 15 and 25 who are not or temporarily not reached by the social benefit systems. These young people are socially disadvantaged or individually impaired and are therefore unable to find a job or training place or apply for basic social security benefits.

As part of the funding, you can support these young people in difficult life situations by providing them with additional support, initiating educational processes and helping them to find out about and apply for basic social security benefits.

The individual problems of young people and their causes are very complex.

Examples can be

• lack of school-leaving qualifications
• No job/training place
• Deficits in terms of social skills, motivation, resilience and key qualifications
• (impending) homelessness
• Family conflicts
• difficult biographical histories (growing up in a foster family/group home or in families with entrenched long-term unemployment)
• Financial problems/debt
• health or addiction problems

In order to reach these young people, possible support services must also be individually tailored, for example to
stabilize their financial situation

• provide support when applying for social benefits, such as unemployment benefit II
• help them find accommodation or stabilize their housing situation
• assist with visits to the authorities
• introduce them to therapeutic treatments
• to help build up social networks
• support the development of work and social behavior or learning and educational readiness
• prepare for catching up on school qualifications and finding a job or apprenticeship.

In principle, services of this kind are primarily provided by other social service providers (e.g. youth welfare services). As a certified training provider, you can therefore only receive funding if similar offers from these priority social service providers do not exist locally and do not have to be provided as a priority.

Funding can be publicly advertised by the Jobcenter or provided as project funding in accordance with grant law. In the case of project funding, the project must be limited in terms of time and content; institutional funding is not possible.

You have no legal claim to the funding.

Varies with awarding measure and project funding

In order to be allowed to provide services to support young people who are difficult to reach, you must be certified in accordance with the Accreditation and Approval Ordinance (AZAV).

For young people to be eligible for the support service, they must

• be between 15 and under 25 years of age, and
• be reasonably likely to be entitled to unemployment benefit II, and
• they must generally have the goal,
  • start and complete an apprenticeship or vocational qualification or
  • find a job or
  • apply for or accept social benefits.

With project funding, you as the project sponsor are obliged to contribute your own funds to the project.

There are no costs for the participants.

There are two ways to obtain funding for hard-to-reach young people.

1. Procurement procedure (public contract)
   • Go to the website of the Federal Office of Administration or to the e-tendering platform of the Federal Ministry's Procurement Office.
   • Use the search function on the pages to find suitable tenders.
   • Create an offer based on the framework conditions specified in the tender documents.
   • Your contact person will inform you of all further steps in the application process.
2. Project funding
   • Develop a concept for your project. Here you should also explain how much of your own funds and, if applicable, municipal state funds will be included in the financing.
   • Find out from the relevant job center how you can apply for project funding.
   • Then submit an application for financial support.
   • Your contact person at the relevant job center will tell you all the next steps.

• Procurement procedure: Here you can see the deadlines in the invitation to tender. The contract will be awarded approximately 2 months after the end of the tender period.
• Project funding: If you are interested in funding a specific project, please contact your local job center. They will also be able to tell you what lead time you should allow.

You must observe the deadline for tenders.

• objection
• Administrative court action

• Support for hard-to-reach young people Approval
• Funding for adolescents and young adults who
  • are between 15 and under 25 years old and
  • receive unemployment benefit II or are very likely to receive it if they submit an application and
  • have difficulties due to their individual problems
    • complete a school, training-related or vocational qualification or otherwise enter working life and
    • apply for or accept social benefits
• Support includes care and support services with the aim that
  • basic security benefits are claimed,
  • necessary therapeutic treatment is initiated and
  • to be introduced to regular job center services for activation and stabilization and early intensive job-oriented support.
• Responsible: Jobcenter

You can find the office of the Federal Employment Agency responsible for you via the office finder.

You can find the office of the Federal Employment Agency responsible for you via the office finder.

Forms available: No
Written form required: Yes
Informal application possible: No statement possible
Personal appearance necessary: No
Online services available: No