Berlin legal aid fund for youth welfare
| Berlin Legal Aid Fund for Youth Welfare (FRY) |
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| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| purpose | Ombudsman for young people and adolescents |
| Chair | Angela Smessaert u. a. |
| Members | approx. 200 |
| Website | www.brj-berlin.de |
The Berlin Legal Aid Fund for Youth Welfare (FRJ) e. V. is a non-profit association based in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Nationwide, the FRY is considered the first independent ombudsman for young people and adolescents . He is aggressively committed to needs-based and legal youth welfare services. The network office ombudsmen, which connects 12 similar advice centers in 10 federal states, is also located in the Berlin FRY.
Motives, approaches and goals
The association was founded in June 2002 on the initiative of Ulrike Urban and as a reaction to the drastically increasing austerity measures in the youth welfare sector since the mid-1990s. Previously, relevant discussions were u. a. in the state working group youth counseling and living in Berlin. The FRY is an independent association of committed specialists from Berlin youth welfare. The members form an alliance of specialists in psychosocial work, lawyers and supporting private individuals. They oppose questionable and illegal administrative action in youth welfare and see themselves as a lobby for young people and their families with a justified but unmet need, especially in the area of § 34 and § 41 of the educational assistance in SGB VIII ; the offers and services there - also in the field of youth social work according to § 13 - are concealed or openly declined from the point of view of the association to the parents or adolescents entitled to benefits for cost reasons . A project "Moving out advice for young adults" flanked the activity. The advisors (by phone and in person) in the FRY work primarily on a voluntary basis and are independent of public funding. Financing is provided through membership fees and donations. At the moment, two half-time positions are financed through Aktion Mensch .
The work is based on the three pillars of advice and support for those affected, public relations and training. Training topics were e.g. B .:
- Legal claims in youth law
- Application, objection and legal action (administrative and family courts)
- Possibilities for action by independent agencies in view of public austerity policies
- individual help planning according to § 36 SGB VIII
- to the interfaces of the second, eighth and twelfth book of the Social Security Code,
- Claims acc. Section 35a / mental disabilities in minors in SGB VIII.
The association is a recognized independent sponsor of youth welfare. Since August 2008, the association has been supporting initiatives throughout Germany that want to be active in the sense of ombudsman in youth welfare and acts as a network point. The FRY has published technical articles and brochures.
Contact and advice center
Affected beneficiaries, children, adolescents and adolescents as well as (if commissioned by those affected) their trusted persons receive counseling appointments by telephone or in person.
Board of Directors and Advisory Board
The five-member board includes a. Angela Smessaert (Chair), and Peter Schruth .
The advisory board includes Johannes Münder , Richard Münchmeier , Heike Schmid-Oberkirchner , Norbert Struck , Reinhard Wiesner and Manfred Kappeler .
Awards
- 2006 Hermine Albers Prize (recognition) from the Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare (AGJ)
- 2008: Best practice Schutzbengel-Award
Literature from and about the FRY
- FRJ: Advice on moving out. Young adults between SGB II, VIII and XII ; o. O., o. J.
- Peter Schruth: Legal representation (PDF file; 43 kB)
- Ulrike Urban: breaking the law.
- Peter Schruth: Social education has priority over mediation
- Angela Smessaert: Key words educational need and educational entitlement , in: DV (Ed.): Fachlexikon der Sozialarbeit , Baden-Baden 2011
Legal aid literature
- BAG LJÄ, IGfH (ed.): Having rights - getting rights . Weinheim 2003
- Manfred Günther : Everything that young people are entitled to. The only legal advisor with the most important clauses for 0 to 30 year olds broken down by age - for those affected, upbringing and teaching. In the appendix the currently widespread JOKER pocket money table . Berlin 2019
- Sigrun von Hasseln : youth rights advisor . Munich 2002
- Ulrike Hinrichs: Rightly so . Muelheim 2009
- Stadtjugendring Mainz (Ed.): Right . Mainz 2008
- Werner Terpitz, Jochen Terpitz: rights of young people from A - Z . Munich 2000
Web links
- to the FRY website
- to the national network, since 2009
- to the youth welfare 4U project
- to the skilled workers portal, here: FRY
- to the website of the Habakuk project in Baden-Württemberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Service instructions of the youth welfare office in the middle to save costs for childcare aids from March 2009 , seen on July 27, 2010 from Johannes Herwig-Lempp
- ^ Website of the TU Berlin: Lehrende / Smessaert , viewed on November 30, 2011
- ↑ Schruth on the website of the Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences ( memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , as seen on November 29, 2011
- ↑ The Schutzbengel Award - Voluntary work deserves recognition - Nobody should be lost , seen on July 25, 2010 on the campaign's website
