The target group for support programs aimed at hard-to-reach young people consists of adolescents between the ages of 15 and 25 who are not, or are only occasionally, reached by the services provided by social welfare systems. These young people are socially disadvantaged or face individual challenges and are therefore unable to find a job or apprenticeship or to apply for basic social security benefits.

Through this funding, you can support these young people in difficult life situations by providing them with additional guidance, initiating educational opportunities, and helping them learn about and apply for basic income support benefits.

The individual challenges faced by these young people and their underlying causes are highly complex.

Examples may include:

• no high school diploma
• no job or apprenticeship
• deficits in social skills, motivation, resilience, and key competencies
• (imminent) homelessness
• family conflicts
• Difficult life histories (growing up in foster care, group homes, or in families with entrenched long-term unemployment)
• Financial problems/debt
• Health or substance abuse problems

In order to reach these young people, any potential support services must also be tailored to individual needs, for example, to:
stabilize their financial situation

• assist with applying for social benefits, such as Unemployment Benefit II
• to assist with finding housing or stabilizing their living situation
• accompany them to government offices
• introduce them to therapeutic treatments
• to help build social networks
• Support the development of work and social behavior or a willingness to learn and pursue education
• to prepare them to earn high school diplomas and to secure employment or vocational training positions.

Generally, services of this kind are primarily provided by other social service agencies (such as youth welfare services). As a certified educational provider, you are therefore only eligible for funding if similar services from these primary social service agencies do not exist locally and are not required to be provided as a priority.

Funding may be publicly advertised by the Job Center or provided as project funding in accordance with grant laws. Project funding must be for a project with a defined duration and scope; institutional funding is not available.

You have no legal entitlement to this funding.