Working with relatives; applying for funding

Specialist centers for family caregivers primarily provide psychosocial advice and support for family caregivers of elderly people in need of care. Their providers can receive a grant as part of project funding.

Purpose

The purpose of the funding is to ensure a permanent, nationwide service for family caregivers that complements care advice in accordance with Section 7a SGB XI or care management in accordance with Section 11 (4) SGB V. In addition to relatives, other non-working carers and older people in need of care can also receive advice.

Object

The task of the specialist centers for family caregivers is to provide ongoing psychosocial advice to family caregivers in open cooperation with all those involved in the care network, to accompany them (also over the long term) and to support them with relief services.

Recipients of funding

Recipients of funding are primarily the associations of independent welfare services and their affiliated organizations, non-profit foundations and private providers, insofar as they carry out work with relatives and employ specialists.

Eligible costs

Personnel and material expenses of the specialist unit.

Type and amount

The funding is granted as a subsidy.

The type of funding is project funding.
Funding is provided for a period of 1 year(s).

The state grant is awarded as fixed-amount funding as part of project funding. The possible funding lump sum is based on the number of eligible specialists employed in the specialist unit. For a full-time specialist, the lump sum is up to EUR 35,000.00 per year.

• Required document/s
  • Project description (structure, implementation, quality assurance, management)
  • Municipal endorsement for the specialist center (proof in accordance with Section I. 2. No. 2.3.3 of the guidelines for funding in the "Bavarian Care Network")

The individual requirements for the funding of a specialist center for caregiving relatives are regulated in Section I. 2. of the guidelines for funding in the "Bavarian Care Network". The lump-sum funding is granted in particular to trained care professionals and social education workers and comparable academic qualifications who are familiar with the support options for family caregivers due to several years of professional experience or who have taken part in appropriate further training. Priority must be given to statutory benefits. The specialist centers for family caregivers require municipal approval from the district or city in which they wish to operate.

The application must be submitted in writing or electronically to the Bavarian State Office for Care. The forms provided must be used.

(Approval for the early start of the measure is generally deemed to have been granted upon submission of the application).

The application must be submitted by December 31 of the year preceding the funding year.

Funding is provided without legal entitlement within the scope of available budget funds.