Recognition as a counseling center for pregnancy conflict counseling

Prerequisites

To be recognized as a counseling center for pregnancy conflict counseling, you must meet the following requirements:

• You must assure that there are sufficiently qualified personnel available to provide professional advice.
• You must ensure that other specialists can be brought in at short notice to carry out the advice
• You must work with all agencies that provide public and private assistance to mothers and children
• They must not be affiliated with any body in which abortions are performed, either organizationally or economically.

Documents required

• Application
• Evidence of the required qualifications of the counseling staff at the counseling center

You will receive the application on request, but it will also be available as a download in the near future.

Deadlines

No

Procedure

In order to be recognized as a counseling center for pregnancy conflict counseling, you must submit an application.
To do this, you can contact a member of staff at the office responsible for you by telephone. There you will receive all information about the necessary application documents and the legal provisions as well as the appropriate forms for your application.
The application must be legally signed by the person who can be held liable for the counseling center. Submit the complete application with the attachments to the Department of Bioethics and Law of the Public Health Office.
After the examination has been completed by the application office responsible for you, you will receive a notice of recognition. The notice contains instructions with information on what you can do if you do not agree with the notice.

Processing time

about 6 weeks

Fees

No

Legal remedies

You can raise an objection to a negative decision within one month of notification at the office specified in the letterhead.

Legal basis

§ 9 Pregnancy Conflict Act (SchKG)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/beratungsg/__9.html


§8 Pregnancy Conflict Act (SchKG)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/beratungsg/BJNR113980992.html#BJNR113980992BJNG000200307

If you would like to set up a counseling center for pregnancy conflict counseling, you must apply to the Health Office of the Social Welfare Authority.