Assistance plan procedure

Help planning describes in child and youth welfare a procedure how individual case-related help for children , adolescents and families is to be selected, granted, planned and led to the best possible result.

The focus of aid planning is the question of how young people and their families can be supported in each case, with the help of the public and free youth welfare organizations, to achieve their goals in the education or development of their children and the problems and barriers that make them come true oppose dismantling. The starting point for this are the wishes, ideas and perspectives of the children, young people and their parents.

Legal regulations

Help planning is regulated by law in Section 36 of the Child and Youth Welfare Act .

The regulations there apply to the granting and implementation of all individual aid that is expected to be provided for a longer period of time. these are

Help for education according to § 27ff. SGB VIII (e.g. socio- educational family assistance , educational assistance , home accommodation )
Integration assistance for children with mental disabilities in accordance with Section 35a of Book VIII of the Social Code
Help for young adults according to § 41 SGB VIII.

The legislature prescribes the public youth welfare agency ( youth welfare office )

the legal guardian and the young people to advise and to participate and to inform them of helping the development of the child or young person about the possible (long-term) effects,
to work together as colleagues when deciding on the type of help so that it is supported by the broadest possible specialist knowledge,
to draw up a help plan with the participation of parents, children and young people, which u. a. answered the following questions: Where exactly is the need and what is the aim of the help? With what kind of help is this goal to be achieved and who contributes what to achieve the goal together? This assistance plan must be checked regularly and the service providers ( independent youth welfare agencies , foster parents ) must also be involved in this process

Terminology

Help planning, help plan procedures and help plan must be distinguished from one another:

As care planning is called the entire process from the initial information and advice on the identification of needs and the preparation of the assistance plan through to completion of a caseworker.
The aid plan procedure describes the concrete methodical implementation of the aid planning process in the youth welfare office. For the internal processing procedure, the youth welfare offices determine which activities are carried out by whom, etc.
The help plan is the protocol of the help plan discussion, the correctness of which is confirmed by the signatures of the participants. The help plan documents the necessary participation, the identified problem areas and solution approaches as well as goals and action steps and is thus the instrument for controlling the help. The help plan is updated regularly by checking with all those involved to what extent the goals have been achieved and whether the goals or the help need to be readjusted.

Involved

Are involved in the aid plan process

the legal guardian ( parents , guardians and / or caregivers ), the affected child or the young people affected ( in age-appropriate way ) and at least one representative of the competent youth welfare office
Other contributors ( foster parents , service providers, etc. )
If necessary, other persons entrusted with the child or young person ( teachers , trainers , doctors, etc. )

All parties involved have the right to be accompanied by a person they trust (a so-called assistance according to SGB X, Section 13, Paragraph 4). This is a great help, especially for the children and adolescents concerned, to actively participate in the help plan discussion.

Update

The assistance plans are checked regularly during the provision of assistance through a new assistance plan discussion. The help plan discussion usually takes place every six months. It is determined whether the type of help provided is suitable, to what extent the goals are achieved, whether the help measure is changed or continued unchanged or ended. Likewise, “before and during long-term help outside of one's own family, it must be checked whether adoption as a child is possible.” ( SGB VIII, Section 36, Paragraph 1, Sentence 2 )

Success factors and quality principles

The following success factors and quality principles can be identified for help planning:

the role clarity of the individuals involved in aid planning:
- the beneficiaries as those who make the decision about accepting the aid and whose goals the aid planning is based on;
- the youth welfare office, which has the lead and control responsibility for the aid plan procedure,
- the service providers who design the aid together with the families on the basis of the contracted aid plan and who work to achieve the goals.
the involvement of parents and young people : Aid can be more successful the more it is wanted and supported by everyone. Research shows that the participation perception of children and adolescents has a direct impact on the effectiveness of aid.
A well-founded socio-educational diagnosis : Help can then be precisely planned and succeeded if there is a comprehensive picture of the family's living situation and the perception of the problems, needs for action and resources is shared by those involved.
The goal-orientation of the assistance : only a concrete formulation of the goals can make progress visible for all those involved and serve as a yardstick for whether assistance serves to achieve the goal.
the resource and Sozialraumorientierung : aids are not intended to replace the potential of beneficiaries, but they strengthen temporary, promote and supplement.
the equal take into account many aspects of daily life . In order to permit exact matching aids, the aid must planning, O through sexual migration ä embossed differences in the circumstances be able to continue..
The interaction of the specialists : Different stocks of knowledge, experiences and perspectives broaden the perspective of case understanding and qualify decisions with often far-reaching biographical setting of the course for the young people concerned and their families.
an internal processing procedure that provides orientation as to when which activities are followed up by whom and thus makes the processes and quality of the service granting transparent. The procedure should be introduced in the organization in a binding manner and coordinated with the service providers at the interfaces.
Sufficient human, material and organizational resources so that the aid plan procedure can also be implemented in the quality presented.

particularities

The assistance plan procedure is to be distinguished from other discussions in the context of assistance and cannot be replaced by these. Helper talks, for example, are conversations in which various professionals (e.g. helpers from school, therapy, care, etc.) who work together with a family exchange ideas about a common approach.

privacy

The assistance plan procedure is subject to special data protection requirements , which also apply in particular to the creation of parenting or development reports - the exchange of information between service providers / foster parents and the youth welfare office should be limited to the points necessary for the assistance plan. It should be noted that the help according to § 65 SGB 8 takes place in a specially protected relationship of trust. This stipulates that information may only be passed on with the consent of the person concerned or in the event of a particular threat to the best interests of the child .