Counseling centres

[DeepL:] District mothers advise, accompany and support families with children up to the age of 12 and provide information about the wide range of services for parents and families in all of Berlin's districts, including in family centers and daycare centers.

Offers:

• Outreach low-threshold family counseling around child development, education and health (home visits).
• Accompaniment of families to educational institutions, specialized agencies, offices (always in connection with the 10 topics of the home visits)
• Accompaniment to / if necessary implementation of parent events in daycare centers, schools, social institutions
• Referral counseling to specialized agencies and support services

Topics of the home visits:

• Basic knowledge about the development and needs of children from 0-6.
• Education
• Play is learning
• Language development - multilingualism - language promotion
• Day care and school system
• Health promotion
• Accident prevention, traffic education, environmental protection and sustainability
• Prevention in education
• Media education
• Rights of the child

[DeepL:] District mothers advise, accompany and support families with children up to the age of 12 and provide information about the wide range of services for parents and families in all of Berlin's districts, including in family centers and daycare centers.

Offers:

• Outreach low-threshold family counseling around child development, education and health (home visits).
• Accompaniment of families to educational institutions, specialized agencies, offices (always in connection with the 10 topics of the home visits)
• Accompaniment to / if necessary implementation of parent events in daycare centers, schools, social institutions
• Referral counseling to specialized agencies and support services

Topics of the home visits:

• Basic knowledge about the development and needs of children from 0-6.
• Education
• Play is learning
• Language development - multilingualism - language promotion
• Day care and school system
• Health promotion
• Accident prevention, traffic education, environmental protection and sustainability
• Prevention in education
• Media education
• Rights of the child

[DeepL:] District mothers advise, accompany and support families with children up to the age of 12 and provide information about the wide range of services for parents and families in all of Berlin's districts, including in family centers and daycare centers.

Offers:

• Outreach low-threshold family counseling around development, education and health of children (home visits).
• Accompaniment of families to educational institutions, specialized agencies, offices (always in connection with the 10 topics of the home visits)
• Accompaniment to / if necessary implementation of parent events in daycare centers, schools, social institutions
• Referral counseling to specialized agencies and support services

Topics of the home visits:

• Basic knowledge about the development and needs of children from 0-6
• Education
• Play is learning
• Language development - multilingualism - language promotion
• Day care and school system
• Health promotion
• Accident prevention, traffic education, environmental protection and sustainability
• Prevention in education
• Media education
• Rights of the child

[DeepL:] District mothers advise, accompany and support families with children up to the age of 12 and provide information about the wide range of services for parents and families in all of Berlin's districts, including in family centers and daycare centers.

Offers:

• Outreach low-threshold family counseling around child development, education and health (home visits).
• Accompaniment of families to educational institutions, specialized agencies, offices (always in connection with the 10 topics of the home visits)
• Accompaniment to / if necessary implementation of parent events in daycare centers, schools, social institutions
• Referral counseling to specialized agencies and support services

Topics of the home visits:

• Basic knowledge about the development and needs of children from 0-6.
• Education
• Play is learning
• Language development - multilingualism - language promotion
• Day care and school system
• Health promotion
• Accident prevention, traffic education, environmental protection and sustainability
• Prevention in education
• Media education
• Rights of the child

[DeepL:] * Open advice for tenants

• Social counseling
• Legal advice on family and inheritance law

[DeepL:] * Tenant counseling for members of Berliner MieterGemeinschaft

• Free tenant counseling on behalf of the Pankow district office
• General independent social counseling
• Advice on social and participation benefits
• Social counseling in Arabic and Kurdish
• Counseling on education and career
• Counseling on professional re-entry
• Academic counseling for refugees
• Counseling for refugees with disabilities
• Counseling for women who have experienced violence
• and much more.

[DeepL:] * General advice on inheritance, family, social, labor and tenancy law.

• Counseling for the elderly
• Family counseling
• Couple counseling
• and much more.

Are you new to Berlin or have you been living here for a while and have questions about rent, health, pensions, social legal claims or the job market? To Spiti advises and helps people with a migration background and new immigrants who have been living in Berlin for a longer period of time. General social counselling is offered in German and Greek. It takes place in the Haus der Begegnung in Berlin-Neukölln.

[DeepL:] * Social counseling

• Tenant counseling
• Advice from Pflegestützpunkt Spandau

The BBZ advises and supports young migrants and refugees to enable them equal access to education and work with the following offers:

• Legal and procedural advice on: asylum procedures, family reunification, child and youth welfare law, social legal claims (job centre, child benefit, Bafög).
• Initial orientation and social counselling for asylum seekers from Syria
• Counselling and support for people who want to take up studies, an internship, school education, vocational training or a job in Germany
• Psychosocial counselling in case of conflicts, problems and experiences of racism
• Family counselling for parenting issues
• Language, integration and high school courses
• Promotion of individual educational and professional opportunities for young women with refugee and migration experience(s) aged 12-19.

InteraXion, welcome office and housing counselling for people with migration and refugee experience in Treptow-Köpenick, offers initial and referral counselling in questions arising from the everyday life of arriving.

The project provides support in arriving in the district and in the topics of housing and housing and creates (multilingual) handouts for this purpose and is available for consultation to migrants, refugees, (full-time and voluntary) supporters, rental agencies and other agencies. In addition, the project organizes celebrations and thematic workshops in cooperation with other associations.

It administers the <aref="https://www.facebook.com/groups/6408931…" class="active">Facebook group: "Welcome to Treptow-Köpenick!" and, in cooperation with tjfbg e.V., also runs a women's meeting place on the Kiezspindel campus and supports a language café organized by volunteers. Together with Über den Tellerrand e.V., it organizes community events in Schöneweide and supports the magazine RawafedZusammenfluss, where neighbors can tell their stories. The Welcome Office follows a participatory and intersectional approach.

[DeepL:] For refugees and people with a migration background who live in Pankow and are looking for an apartment. We help individual adults and families.

• Information on finding housing (e.g. search the Internet, documents, applications, cost transfers, electricity/gas/telephone, etc.).
  
  *Assisting with housing applications and paperwork.
  
  *Hunting for an apartment together to show how it is done
  
  *Assisting with initial apartment viewings, if necessary
  
  *Assistance in signing the lease, help in understanding the lease agreement
  
  *Education on rights and responsibilities as a tenant.
  
  *Referral to other important counseling services

Weekly search consultation hour for joint apartment search on the computer every Tuesday from 3 to 6 pm and Thursday from 2 to 5 pm.

There you have the opportunity to create housing applications together, to dedicate yourself independently to the search for housing on the computer or to arrange viewing appointments directly.

The offer takes place at the AWO Begegnungszentrum Kreuzberg, Adalbertstraße 23a, 10997 Berlin.

+++ Until further notice there are no office hours, individual appointments by prior arrangement (by mail or phone) are possible.+++

Yardim - interkulturelle Wohnhilfen e. V. is an independent organization that offers assistance according to §§ 67 f SGB XII within the framework of BEW and WuW. Our offer is open to all Berliners from all districts.

We become active in the case of threatened or already occurred homelessness or unacceptable housing conditions. Our work includes among other things:

• The preservation of the flat or the search for a flat
• Debt processing
• Income clarification with the enforcement of claims to social benefits (job centre, social welfare office, family benefits office, housing office)
• Questions concerning aliens law and others

Counselling and further assistance for people who do not have their own home or are at risk of losing their home. Also for people with unclear residence status.

• Free individual counselling in an acute emergency situation
• Support in the enforcement of social legal claims
• Support with problems with authorities and offices
• Referral to suitable further assistance and facilities
• Possibility to set up a postal address and lockers