You can obtain the Fredenberg brochure from the Family Service, which provides a helpful overview of the district. The brochure presents clubs, facilities and offers in Fredenberg and contains useful information for families, children and other interested parties.
Whether you are new to the district or are specifically looking for leisure activities, advice or meeting places - the Fredenberg brochure will help you find your way around quickly. You can also find out interesting facts about the social infrastructure, events and important contact points in the district.
The brochure is available free of charge from the Family Service - feel free to drop by or talk to us!

What is the baby consultation?
The specialist service for children, youth and family of the city of Salzgitter offers a "baby consultation hour" for expectant parents with babies up to one year old.
The consultation is free of charge for all parents from Salzgitter.

The baby consultation offers you a safe place where you can strengthen the bond with your baby. The baby consultation could help you if:

• you and your baby have crying or sleeping problems
• you have experienced a traumatic birth
• you have general worries and fears
• you are pregnant and are experiencing a worrying pregnancy

In the baby consultation, you will learn to better understand your baby's signs and to trust your parental intuition.

The advice offered is based on targeted conversation techniques and body-oriented methods.

Further information on this topic and the many services for pregnant women, parents-to-be, mothers, fathers and families can be obtained from the Family Service.

What are early help specialists?
Early help specialists are family midwives and family child health nurses with an additional qualification as an "early help specialist".

The use of help from a family midwife/family pediatric nurse as part of early help is free of charge and independent. The specialists are bound to confidentiality.

How long does a specialist provide early help?
Family midwives: can support women and families during pregnancy and then, if desired, until the child is 1 year old.

Family health nurses: can also accompany families beyond the age of 1 up to the age of 3 if the child has a chronic illness or disability.

What do early help specialists do?

- Listen to questions and concerns

- Know where to go and arrange help

- Provide practical support in everyday life

- Accompany to appointments on request

- Support you in reorganizing your life with a child

What are the requirements?
In addition to the statutory entitlement to midwife services, you can also receive support from an early help specialist due to various living conditions. Examples of this are

- Single parents or underage parents

- Uncertainty and exhaustion

- Special challenges with your child

- Feelings of isolation

Where can I get in touch for further information and questions?
If you have any questions or would like to be referred to a specialist, please contact the Family Service's Early Help Specialist Coordinator.

In addition, the early help specialists offer direct telephone consultation hours for families.

Please contact the specialists during the specified consultation hours.

Godparents for children with mentally ill parents

The sponsor project for children with mentally ill parents offers affected families supportive relief in everyday life as well as an additional caregiver for their child.

The mentors are trained in dealing with children of mentally ill parents and work on a voluntary basis. Through regular contact and the organization of leisure activities, the godparents can become a trustworthy contact person for your child/children and at the same time relieve your own everyday life for a certain period of time.

Where can I get in touch for further information and questions?

If you would like to register your child for the sponsorship project or are interested in volunteering as a sponsor yourself, please contact the Family Service's specialist advice service for educational partnerships.

What are they?

All of these contact points offer parents and children additional and special services and range from facility-based to cross-city services.

As part of the services, families are given the opportunity to exchange ideas and discover areas of learning such as experiencing nature or exercise together.

In practice, this means playing, reading, exercising, cooking and eating together, painting, crafts, experimenting and much more.

In addition, families receive individual information, advice, support and referral by specialists to further life-phase-related services as required.

For inquiries or current offers, please contact the family daycare centre or decentralized family service point directly.

Family daycare centers:

Decentralized family service points:

What are family centers?

Family centers see themselves as coordination centers for family-friendly services. They strengthen the skills and self-efficacy potential of children and families and promote a family-friendly environment.

The inclusive orientation of family centers lays the foundation for all families to feel welcome and valued.

Our family centers see themselves as a hub in the district in a network of early help for children and parents. They are designed to provide low-threshold access to advice and educational services.

Each center opens its doors to all residents of the district, thus creating new contacts and networks for all visitors (children, parents and specialist staff).

The locations of the family centers (FamZ) in Salzgitter: