Kreisverwaltung Bernkastel-Wittlich - Fachbereich 12 - Jugend und Familie
Address
address
Kurfürstenstraße 16
54516 Wittlich
Elevator available
Wheelchair access
PO box address
Post office box 14 20
54504 Wittlich
Opening hours
Here you can find the opening hours.; Here you can find the opening hours.
Contact
Internet
Responsible for
District Bernkastel-Wittlich (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Adoption of a child after placement by the youth welfare office
- Apply for a place in a daycare center or childcare facility
- Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities or for minors with physical, mental or sensory impairments
- Apply for integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities or impending mental disabilities
- Apply for permission to care for children
- Applying as a foster parent, aptitude test
- Declaring joint custody of a child
- Educational child and youth protection services
- Have maintenance claims notarized
- Provide information about municipal vacation offers for children and young people
- Receiving juvenile assistance in criminal proceedings (juvenile court assistance)
- Request help with education
- Set parental contribution
- Suggest appointment as guardian
- Take advantage of youth work offers
Further information
In Department 12 - Youth and Family, the employees of Department Head Bernd Bäumler (Tel.: 06571 14-2210) are committed to the well-being of families and our children and young people. They also help with educational problems.
Socio-educational advice for families, children and young people is provided by the Educational Services team led by Mathias Flesch (Tel: 06571 14-2430) and Adele Ruppenthal (Tel: 06571 14-2410). This is also where parents receive advice on integration assistance for mentally disabled children and young people.
In the area of child day care, the department is responsible for demand planning, specialist advice, accounting for staff costs and setting after-school care and crèche fees. The placement of childminders is also one of the department's tasks. Furthermore, the department advises providers of daycare centers and sports facilities on funding opportunities for construction projects.
The department is also responsible for child and youth protection, family education, youth welfare planning and district youth care.
In the "Financial Aid for Families" team, the team leaders Marion Baden-Caspari (Tel.: 06571 14-2067) and Stefanie Clemens (Tel.: 06571 14-2267) process applications for parental allowance and advance maintenance payments. The employees in this team also have the task of advising and supporting single parents in the exercise of personal care, the assertion of child maintenance claims and their own maintenance claims.
Advice and support is also provided to young adults up to the age of 21 with regard to the settlement of maintenance claims and mothers who are not married at the time of the birth of their child with regard to the possibilities and importance of establishing paternity, the realization of maintenance claims, the establishment of joint parental custody and the establishment of a guardianship. The long-term representation of the interests of children and young people takes place in the context of the processing of guardianships, curatorships and guardianships.