Family care; application for funding

Family care helps to support families in special emergency and crisis situations and to avoid children being placed in alternative care. The providers of family care centers can receive a grant as part of project funding.

Purpose

The purpose of the funding is to facilitate the continuation of family care stations and to ensure a nationwide supply of qualified specialists, including through binding forms of cooperation.

Object

The object of the funding is the expenditure of the family care centers for family care. The qualified specialist takes over the care and upbringing of the children as well as the care of the household.

Recipients of funding

Recipients of funding are non-profit welfare associations and their affiliated organizations, non-profit foundations and private providers, insofar as they are responsible for family care stations and employ specialists there.

Eligible expenditure

Personnel and material expenses of the family care center.

Type and amount

The state grant is awarded as fixed-amount funding within the framework of project funding. The possible funding lump sum is based on the number of eligible specialists employed at the family care center. The lump sum is up to EUR 9,000.00 per year for a full-time, needs-based specialist.

• The application form with attachments is provided by the Bavarian State Office for Nursing.

The individual requirements for the funding of a family care station are regulated in Section I. 1. of the guidelines for funding in the "Bavarian Care Network".
In particular, the specialist must have completed training as a state-approved family caregiver or as a state-approved village helper, as a social pedagogue, as a nursing specialist in accordance with the Nursing Professions Act, further training as a specialist for family-supporting household management or a comparable qualification.

The application must be submitted in writing or electronically to the Bavarian State Office for Nursing.