Hilfe für junge Volljährige beantragen

Young adults sometimes find it difficult to live independently and without help from others. For people between the ages of 18 and 27, the youth welfare office provides so-called "help for young adults".

Assistance for young adults" includes various services that are suitable for young adults. The assistance is intended to help people between the ages of 18 and 21 to lead a self-determined and independent life. When an application is made, it is checked which help is appropriate in each individual case.

Once a person has reached the age of 21, continued help may be available in justified individual cases.

The Youth Welfare Office offers various individual forms of support. The support is based on

• Personal goals
• wishes
• abilities
• Resources

Resources can be: the environment, friends and family.

Educational specialists support people in overcoming everyday problems and help them to develop a perspective. It does not matter whether the person lives with their parents, in their own home or in a residential group.

The following forms exist:

• Parental assistance - one person provides support in everyday life.
• Intensive one-to-one socio-educational support to help them overcome most personal crises and increasingly solve problems themselves.
• Home education - care in a facility outside the parental home
• Assisted living - the path to an independent life within your own four walls
• Integration assistance for young adults with an (impending) mental disability.

Young people who have already received help from the youth welfare office before they reach the age of majority and would like to continue receiving this help must apply for help for young adults themselves. Previously, the legal guardians (parents or guardians) were entitled to claim.

• ID card

• They are between 18 and 21 years old. In justified individual cases, assistance can also be granted up to the age of 27 if assistance has already been started before then.
• Due to your personal development, you are unable to lead a self-determined, independent and autonomous life.
• Help is suitable and necessary. The youth welfare office will check this.
• If you have an (impending) mental disability, you will need a specialist medical opinion if you wish to apply for integration assistance for young adults. The youth welfare office can obtain this with your consent.

Help for young adults in outpatient form is free of charge. Outpatient means that you live with your parents or in your own home.

In the case of inpatient assistance for young adults, you must make a reasonable contribution to the costs if you have an income or assets. Inpatient means that you live in a home or other form of assisted living.

• Contact the responsible youth welfare office.
• You will be shown possible assistance in a personal meeting.
• If help for young adults is an option, then submit an application for help.
• Once help for young adults has been approved, all parties involved draw up a help plan together. This will set out how help should be organized in your case.

If you do not agree with the decision of the Youth Welfare Office regarding the assistance applied for in accordance with Section 41 SGB VIII, you can file a complaint with the Administrative Court.

The action must be brought within one month of notification of the decision (§§ 74 Para. 1 S. 1, 68 VwGO, 80 Para. 1 NJG).

• Apply for help for young adults
• In case of difficulties with independence and other problems
• 18-21 years, with the exception of up to 27
• Type and scope depends on the circumstances
• Counseling necessary
• Application necessary
• Help plan discussion
• Responsible body: Responsible youth welfare office

To the local youth welfare office

Responsibility lies with the local youth welfare office