Counseling centres

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

Offers of the GFBM:

• counselling and placement in German courses
• Qualification, training and employment courses
• language assessment

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

Offers of the BBZ:

• Support in the search for a school place, training and studies.
• Counselling and support during training
• tutoring and preparation for exams

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

Offers at the Centre for Survival:

• Vocational and training preparation in the commercial, industrial-technical and gastronomic fields.
• Placement in training and work
• Counselling for university graduates with foreign degrees
• Advice on residence law
• Implementation of training courses
• Psychological support/coaching

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

The services of the ARRIVO contact office include:

• Counselling, preparation and placement of refugees seeking training and employment.
• Employer acquisition
• Advice and preparation of companies for the employment of refugees in training and jobs.

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

Offers at the Senate Department:

• Clarification of social and residence law issues.
• network coordination
• Public relations
• Implementation of training courses

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

Offers at the Senate Department:

• Clarification of social and residence law issues.
• network coordination
• Public relations
• Implementation of training courses

The bridge networks offer a comprehensive range of vocational counselling and support services, job-specific German and qualification courses, and placement in internships and employment.

Offers at the Senate Department:

• Clarification of social and residence law issues.
• network coordination
• Public relations
• Implementation of training courses

Counselling for people with unclear residence status, EU citizens and Germans without sufficient health insurance cover in Berlin to clarify whether they can be placed in mainstream care.

We advise confidentially and anonymously on request.

[DeepL:] * Parental counseling

• General social counseling
• Tenant counseling for members of the Berliner MieterGemeinschaft

Elişi Evi e.V. was founded in 1983 by teachers and social pedagogues from the neighbouring Refik Veseli School to offer women and girls with a migration background their own protected space.

Elisi Evi provides culturally mediated counselling, anonymously if desired, preferably in the mother tongue of the clients and taking into account the specific situation regarding immigration law, on the following topics:

• Domestic violence in all its manifestations (e.g. physical, psychological, sexual).
• (Threatened) forced marriages of young women and girls

[DeepL:] We offer advice on the subject of domestic violence:

• Telephone and personal counseling
• Help with the search for shelters and other housing options
• Long-term psychosocial counseling and support (also e.g. after a stay in a women's shelter)
• Information on police and legal measures
• Trial preparation and support
• Legal advice (family and criminal law)
• Advice on placing violent parents in anti-aggression services and parallel women's advice on courses for perpetrators

Free, independent and individual counselling, information and

for people who would like to apply for recognition of a qualification acquired abroad.

qualification acquired abroad.

• Independent and confidential specialist advice
• Information on the procedure, costs and duration of the process
• Support with the compilation of the necessary documents and
  
  Recommendations on the reference occupation
• Referral to the competent body in the recognition procedure
• Advice on qualification options for obtaining professional recognition
  
  recognition
• Support in researching compensatory measures in the case of partial recognition
• Support in the search for further counselling services if recognition cannot be considered.
  
  recognition is not an option.
  
  The counselling centre has an additional location at the following address
  
  to be reached at the following address: Lindowerstraße 18, 13347 Berlin

The Berlin office against discrimination on the housing market advises and accompanies people free of charge who are discriminated against on the basis of (ascribed) origin, language, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or social status.

• Writing letters of complaint,
• referral to further support services
• Accompaniment to talks
• assistance in court.

Consultation by appointment via contact form on our website or telephone

The women's counselling service BORA offers

• telephone and personal counselling in cases of domestic violence
• support in financial matters
• support in dealing with authorities
• information about police and legal measures
• Accompaniment to offices, court, police and authorities to secure one's livelihood
• Individual counselling and crisis intervention
• short-term and low-threshold therapeutic support
• regular chat and e-mail counselling
• legal advice

We advise

• women* who experience physical/psychological/sexual violence and want to protect themselves from it
• women who are experiencing a difficult separation or divorce
• Mothers whose children have experienced sexual violence
• Relatives and acquaintances who support women* affected by violence
• women affected by violence who want to start a new life
• women* after their time in a women's shelter
• Relatives and acquaintances of women who experience violence.

We arrange

• shelters and emergency accommodation for women
• free legal advice from a specialist lawyer
• to specialist counselling centres, crisis facilities, doctors, therapists, lawyers, self-help groups.

Women's Counselling TARA is an intercultural contact and counselling centre for women who live in a conflictual relationship and are threatened, beaten or abused. We want to give women the opportunity to reconsider their situation and to look for ways out of the violent situation.

Women experience physical, sexual and psychological violence in their marriage or partnership. In this private environment, which should convey trust and security, women and children are particularly often exposed to physical and emotional violence.

Fear, shame and feelings of guilt make it difficult to talk about what they have experienced. In this situation we offer women help and support.

Offers

Counselling:

• by telephone and in person
• support in clarifying the current situation
• emotional relief and the opportunity to reflect on one's own situation in peace and quiet

Information and support on:

• police instruction
• applications according to the Protection against Violence Act, such as allocation of the home, protection orders
• filing charges and criminal proceedings
• legal and financial issues, such as custody and access rights, divorce and alimony law, ALG II, residence rights

Mediation to:

• women's shelters and refuges
• authorities and other social or further institutions

The services are free of charge and anonymous, and can also be provided with an interpreter by arrangement.

Physical and psychological violence against women is often experienced in the supposedly safe home, in marriage and partnership.

Our counselling and support services for women include.

• Personal or telephone counselling in cases of domestic violence
• Crisis intervention and safety planning
• Assistance in finding shelters and other housing options
• Longer-term, psychosocial counseling and accompaniment
• Information on police and legal options
• Information on other counselling options, self-help groups, doctors, therapists, lawyers, etc.
• Accompaniment and support at appointments in offices and authorities and in the search for housing
• Advice for professional and private supporters, cooperation and networking
• Psychologically guided women's group (Tuesdays 16:30 - 18:00),
• Free legal advice from a lawyer (Mondays or Wednesdays 11:30 - 15:30, by telephone appointment only).

[DeepL:] Free consultation with attorneys as your first point of contact:

Tuesdays, every two weeks from 5:00 - 6:00 pm. Only with registration on the following topics in rotation:

• Family law (divorce/maintenance/intercourse)
• ALG II/basic security law - medical liability law
• Inheritance and disability law or
• general special counseling (Where do I have to go?)
• family law, especially divorce law
• Inheritance law, especially wills and living wills
• traffic law and law of misdemeanors
• aliens and asylum law.

HÎNBÛN is a place of intercultural learning, where German women and migrants from different backgrounds practice together, spend their free time and thus come to a better mutual understanding.

HÎNBÛN offers social and legal counseling as well as various educational opportunities for old and young in groups, courses and seminars.