Support for young people in difficult circumstances

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 programme, you can support these young people in difficult circumstances 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/residential group 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 stabilise their financial situation

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

In principle, programmes 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 programmes are not available locally from these primary social service providers and do not have to be prioritised.

Funding can be publicly advertised by the job centre 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.