Coordinating child protection centers; applying for funding

The Free State of Bavaria supports local authorities in the nationwide systematic bundling and networking of early help through Coordinating Child Protection Centers (KoKis).

Antrag auf Bewilligung einer staatlichen Zuwendung - Förderung Koordinierender Kinderschutzstellen (KoKi) - Netzwerk frühe Kindheit

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Verwendungsnachweis über staatliche Zuwendungen - Förderung Koordinierender Kinderschutzstellen (KoKi) - Netzwerk frühe Kindheit

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Purpose

The Free State of Bavaria supports local authorities in establishing social early warning and support systems to further develop preventive child protection through early help. Funding is provided for coordinating child protection centers (KoKi - Netzwerk frühe Kindheit). The aim of the funding is to reach parents with infants and young children in stressful life situations at an early stage and to provide them with tailored support in order to avoid overburdening situations that can lead to abuse and neglect of children.

Object

Funding is provided for coordinating child protection centers. The Coordinating Child Protection Center must be set up within the area of responsibility of the youth welfare office. The Coordinating Child Protection Center supports potentially or acutely troubled families by establishing, maintaining and further developing systematic, interdisciplinary networks of all those involved in child protection.

The target group of the Coordinating Child Protection Center are in particular families with infants and young children whose social and economic living conditions indicate disadvantage and stress and who require targeted and qualified support (selective/secondary prevention).
Risk and protective factors should be identified at an early stage, risk factors minimized and protective factors built up.
The network work of the coordinating child protection centers is intended to further reduce any inhibitions that families and network partners may have towards child and youth welfare services and thus strengthen low-threshold services.
Parents should also be enabled to meet their parenting responsibilities in difficult life situations.

Eligible costs

Funding is available for personnel costs.

Type and amount

The funding is granted as a subsidy.
The type of grant is project funding.

The grant is awarded within the framework of project funding as fixed-amount funding (personnel cost subsidy). A full-time specialist is funded with a fixed amount of up to EUR 16,500 per year. The funding is reduced proportionately for part-time specialists.

Beneficiaries are exclusively the local public youth welfare organizations in Bavaria.

The funding recipients must provide the following services as a prerequisite for funding:

Networking

Networking includes the establishment, expansion, maintenance and further development of regional networks for the early support of families.
In addition to the coordination of suitable offers of help, networking also includes the creation of systematic access to the target group through binding cooperation with the healthcare system.
In order to ensure the best possible networking, it is necessary to analyze the cooperation partners, their tasks and services, professional resources and limitations as well as the local target group.
The aims of networking include improving mutual knowledge and acceptance of the individual network partners, common language rules, transparent handover regulations and binding standards in preventative child protection.
Suitable means of achieving the goals of networking include the establishment of round tables, working groups in accordance with Section 78 SGB VIII or comparable (also virtual) communication platforms for professional exchange between all professional groups and institutions offering early help.

Navigation function

In addition to networking as a general, structural form of cooperation, the Coordinating Child Protection Center must refer parents within the youth welfare office or to suitable network partners according to their individual needs and, if desired, provide support during the transition between two network partners.

Network-related child protection concept

The funding recipient must draw up a network-related child protection concept that forms the basis of the network work. The network-related child protection concept must be developed on the basis of a target group-specific analysis of services and needs in the region and must include existing early help services.

Staffing and professional qualifications

In order to meet the professional requirements, at least 1.5 full-time positions are generally required per coordinating child protection center. In justified cases, one full-time position is sufficient; in this case, the guarantee of reliable and continuous representation must be specified in the network-related child protection concept. A reduction beyond this is permissible in agreement with the approval authority.

As a rule, the appointed specialist should have completed a degree in social work at a university of applied sciences or training in another suitable field. They must have the necessary specialist knowledge, skills and legal knowledge. Practical experience in the field of district social work or in specialized child and youth welfare services must be demonstrated.

Required document/s
- Application for approval of a state grant
- Cost overviews and financing plan
- Current status and further development of the network-related child protection concept