Apply for integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities

If your child has a mental disability or is at risk of a mental disability, you can receive integration assistance. This is intended to prevent your child from having difficulties participating in society later on.

It is available in the following forms:

outpatient,
as day care centres for children or other day care facilities
by suitable carers
in inpatient facilities and other forms of residential care.

Note: Mental disordersthat result in a disability result in disability,are:

physically unfounded psychoses
mental disorders as a result of
- Diseases or injuries of the brain
- Seizure disorders or
- other diseases or physical impairments
Addictions
Neuroses
Personality disorders.

Related forms and processes

Prerequisite

Mental health is likely to deviate from the typical state for the person's age for more than six months and
participation in life in society is therefore impaired or such an impairment is to be expected.

Responsible department

the local youth welfare office

Youth Welfare Office is,

if you live in an urban district: the city administration
if you live in a district: the district office

Note: The city of Constance fulfils the tasks of the local youth welfare office itself. The city of Villingen-Schwenningen handed over the municipal youth welfare office to the Schwarzwald-Baar district on 1 July 2023.

Procedure

Contact the relevant youth welfare office with your problems. The counsellor will decide in a personal meeting whether

Integration assistance is an option for your child or
other forms of help would be more suitable.

The decisive factor is whether the disorder is actually a mental disability. The Youth Welfare Office will obtain an opinion from one of the following specialists for clarification:

A doctor specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry or psychotherapy
Child and adolescent psychotherapist or child and adolescent psychotherapist
Medical doctor or psychotherapist with specialised experience in the field of mental disorders in children and adolescents.

Healthcare professionals recognise a deviation from age-typical mental health. These are primarily paediatric and adolescent psychiatrists.

The task of social work is to assess the impairment of social participation. The youth welfare organisation ultimately decides on the classification of the person, i.e

whether and in what form integration assistance is granted and
whether other assistance may be necessary.

If the assistance is approved, all parties involved jointly draw up an assistance plan. Among other things, this sets out

which goals are to be achieved through the integration assistance and
how long the assistance will be provided.

Note: The duration of integration assistance depends on the severity of the mental disability. It therefore varies from case to case.

Deadlines

none

Required documents

Clarify directly with the youth welfare office which documents you need to submit.

Costs

The costs for the help are borne by the youth welfare office.

The legal guardians may have to contribute to the costs of the assistance according to their financial circumstances.

Miscellaneous

none

Appeal

Enquire at the responsible office.

Legal basis

Sozialgesetzbuch Achtes Buch (SGB VIII)

§ 35a Eingliederungshilfe für seelisch behinderte Kinder und Jugendliche

Release note

machine generated, based on the German release by: 29.07.2024 Sozialministerium Baden-Württemberg