Promotion of young people in difficult circumstances

Prerequisites

In order for you as a provider to be able to provide services to support young people who are difficult to reach, you must comply with the Accreditation and Licensing Ordinance
(AZAV) certified. In order for young people to be able to claim the support service, they must:

• be between 15 and under 25 years of age, and
• are reasonably likely to be entitled to unemployment benefit II, and
• they must basically have the aim
• to start and complete an apprenticeship or professional qualification or
• find a job or
• apply for or accept social benefits.

Documents required

varies with award measure and project funding

Deadlines

In the case of tenders, you must observe the bid deadline.

Procedure

There are two ways to receive funding from Hard-to-Reach Young People Funding.
1. Procurement procedure (public contract)

• Go to the website of the Federal Office of Administration or to the e-tendering platform of the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry.
• Use the search on the pages to find suitable tenders.
• Create an offer based on the framework conditions specified in the tender documents.
• You can find out all further steps from your contact person in the application process.

2. Project Funding

• Develop a concept for your project. Also explain the amount of your own funds and, if applicable, municipal state funds for the financing.
• Find out from the relevant job center how you can apply for project funding.
• Then submit an application for financial assistance.
• You can find out all further steps from your contact person at the responsible job center.

Processing time

• Procurement procedure: Here you can see the deadlines in the tender. The contract is awarded approximately 2 months after the end of the offer period.


• Project funding: If you are interested in funding a specific project, please contact your local job center. They can also tell you what lead time you should plan for

Fees

With project funding, you as the project sponsor are obliged to contribute your own funds to the project. There are no costs for the participants.

Legal remedies

• contradiction


• administrative lawsuit

Legal basis

Section 16h of the Second Book of the Social Code (SGB II)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_2/__16h.html

The target group for support for young people who are difficult to reach are young people between the ages of 15 and 25 who are not, or at times not, reached by the offers of the social benefit systems. These young people are socially disadvantaged or individually handicapped and therefore not
able to find a job or apprenticeship or to apply for basic social security benefits.
As part of the funding, you can support these young people in difficult life situations by giving them an additional opportunity to accompany them, initiate educational processes and help them to get to know and apply for basic security benefits. The individual problems of young people and their causes are very complex.
Examples can be:

• lack of school leaving certificate
• no job/apprenticeship
• Deficits in terms of social skills, motivation, resilience and key qualifications
• (impending) homelessness
• family conflicts
• Difficult biographical developments (growing up in a foster family/residential group or in families with established long-term unemployment)
• financial problems/debts
• health or addiction problems

In order to be able to reach these young people, possible support services must also be individually tailored, for example to:

• to stabilize the financial situation
• to support you in applying for social benefits, such as unemployment benefit II
• support in finding accommodation or stabilizing the housing situation
• to accompany you on visits to authorities
• lead to therapeutic treatments
• to help build social networks
• to support the development of work and social behavior or willingness to learn and educate
• to prepare for catching up on school-leaving qualifications and for taking up a job or apprenticeship.

In principle, offers of this type are primarily provided by other social service providers (e.g. youth welfare). As a certified educational institution, you can therefore only receive funding if similar offers from these primary social service providers do not exist locally and do not have to be provided as a priority. The funding can be publicly advertised by the job center or as project funding in accordance with grant law. Project funding must be limited in terms of time and content; institutional funding is not possible.
You have no legal entitlement to the funding.