Förderung: Zuschuss für Familienerholungsmaßnahmen beantragen

Under certain conditions, families can apply for subsidized family recreation measures from independent youth welfare organizations.

Families and single parents with a low income can experience a family vacation together.

The state supports family recreation measures offered by independent youth welfare organizations, non-profit family holiday centers and youth hostels in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (hereinafter referred to as "measure providers") if they meet the common needs for recreation, activities and education.

The offers are intended to enable families to spend time together, to get together as a family, but also with other families, and to relieve parents by providing qualified child and youth care.

The recreational offers include overnight accommodation with full board as well as programs for joint leisure activities for and with participating families.

Families register with the providers of the recreational activities.

Applicants to the state and recipients of the grant are the organizers of the measures, who should have their registered office and/or sphere of activity in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The grant is staggered according to the number of overnight stays and amounts to a flat rate of 30 euros to 15 euros per person per overnight stay. You can find more detailed information in the guidelines on the granting of subsidies for family recreation measures.

Families who wish to take advantage of a subsidized recreational measure must

• have their habitual residence in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and
• at least one child who has not yet reached the age of 18 must belong to the household and take part in the vacation measure.

At least one of the participating family members is granted one of the following benefits at the time of registration with the youth welfare organization:

• Benefits under Chapter 3 according to Section 2 of the Second Book of the German Social Code - Basic Security for Jobseekers (SGB II),
• Benefits in accordance with the Third and Fourth Chapters of the Twelfth Book of the German Social Code - Social Assistance,
• Benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act,
• Housing benefit in accordance with the Housing Benefit Act,
• Child supplement according to § 6a of the Federal Child Benefit Act.

The benefit notifications must be submitted to the respective measure provider upon registration.

The family recreation measures may not comprise fewer than five and no more than 14 overnight stays.

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Families can apply directly to independent youth welfare organizations, non-profit family holiday centers and youth hostels in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that offer family recreation measures, or the state associations of the AWO, DRK, Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, Caritas or Diakonie. The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGuS) is responsible for the application procedure.

The average processing time is four weeks.

Applications must be submitted in good time before the start of the measure.

• The state promotes family recreation measures at independent youth welfare organizations, non-profit family holiday centers and youth hostels in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• Measures take into account the common needs for recreation, activities and education.

State Office for Health and Social Affairs