The Federal Foundation for Early Intervention supports the Early Intervention Networks and provides psychosocial support for families with infants and young children.
The Federal Foundation supports the Early Help Networks financially via a fund from which you, as an early help provider, can apply for funding. In particular, personnel and material costs are supported.
In funding area I, your measures to ensure the network structures in early help can be funded:
- Deployment of network coordinators in the coordination centers
- Network meetings and cross-sector events
- Coordinating activities in the area of outreach support
- Qualification and further training of network coordinators and network partners
- Documentation and evaluation of network processes
- Public relations work
In funding area II, your measures for the psychosocial support of families through specific services can be funded.
1. longer-term support for professionals:
- Deployment of professionals working in the health-oriented support of families (GFB) in the context of early help
- for professionals working in the GFB:
- Qualification
- further training
- coordination
- Specialist advice
- supervision
- Reimbursement of expenses for the participation of professionals working in the GFB in networking activities
- Quality assurance measures such as the documentation of the GFB
2.longer-term support for volunteers in the context of early help:
Quality assurance for the deployment of volunteers
- Coordination and specialist support for volunteers by full-time professionals
- Training and qualification of coordinators and volunteers
- Travel costs incurred when volunteers are deployed
- Reimbursement of expenses for the participation of coordinators and volunteers in networking activities
3. offers and services at the interfaces of the various social benefit systems:
- Pilot systems for parents that:
- smooth the transition between support services from different providers
- clarify the support needs of families in as interdisciplinary a manner as possible
- arrange early help services
- Quality assurance measures for the services and training for the professionals involved at the interfaces between the care systems
- Measures for the structural integration of stakeholders and institutions, particularly from the healthcare sector, as part of interprofessional cooperation
- Services that provide low-threshold access for families in difficult circumstances and open the door to early help services
You can make use of additional services in funding area III:
- the implementation of model projects of early help that have already proven successful
- the testing of innovative measures
Under certain conditions, further projects can be funded at your discretion.