Foster children: Apply for help for education in full-time care

If you can't make sure your child is doing well in your home, then your child may be living with a foster family temporarily or for a long time.

Helping to raise in full-time care means that your child lives in another family and is cared for there. Persons with custody are entitled to assistance with education if an education in the best interests of the child is not guaranteed and the assistance is suitable and necessary for his or her development. Which foster family your child lives with and for how long depends, for example:

• Age of the child
• Your child's stage of development
• Your child's attachments
• Possibilities of improving your parenting conditions

The foster parents are selected by the Youth Welfare Office together with you.
Only suitable people can become foster parents and take in your child.
Relatives (e.g. grandparents) can also be foster parents.
The help for education in full-time care can be temporary or permanent. It is a type of benefit for educational aids. It may also apply to young adults.

Further detailed information on the various basic and practical questions around the topic of "foster child" in Hesse can be found here.

• Identity card
• If applicable, proof of custody, for example: birth certificate, information from the custody register or decision of the family court on custody.

Please contact the Youth Welfare Office responsible for you

• You are the parent or guardian of a child (the person with custody).
• They do not manage to care for and educate the child in such a way that it is good for the child.
• The help for education in full-time care is suitable and necessary.
   

• Please contact the responsible youth welfare office.
• The Youth Welfare Office will explain to you in a personal conversation what help is available.
• The Youth Welfare Office tries to support you so that your child can continue to stay with you.
• If the Youth Welfare Office and you come to the conclusion that placing your child in a foster family makes sense, then you can apply for "help with education".
• All participants (you, your child, the caregivers from the caring institution and the youth welfare office) meet for a help plan discussion. The aid plan specifies how the aid is to be designed and which objectives are to be achieved.
• The Youth Welfare Office is looking for a suitable foster family. You can express wishes. If there are several possible foster parents, then they can choose with.
• The Youth Welfare Office regularly checks whether the help is still suitable.
   

The costs for the help for education in full-time care are largely borne by the Youth Welfare Office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office.