Parents & Teens Hubs

Parents and Teens Hubs

The program offers professional and integrative family support. It is aimed at domestic and foreign families in difficult life situations. The entire family system is in focus.

Family support takes place at home in the familiar, everyday environment of a family. Operations take place during the day, in the evening or over the weekend. They are limited in time.

Overview

Family support is carried out in English, or any Ghanaian language as required.

The aim of family support is to improve the life of parents, children and the interaction between parents and children to such an extent that an orderly family life becomes possible. Parents are advised and supported in their educational tasks. Their scope of action and skills to cope with everyday life are expanded and thus family relationships are improved overall. The parents find their own upbringing style and build a positive parent-child relationship. At the end of the accompaniment, the family functions on its own and acts independently.

What is socio-educational family support?

Goals of Parents and Teens Hubs

The individual objectives are based on the following main topics:

Goals of Parents and Teens Hubs

Working Method

The Parents and Teens Hubs visits the families on site and works together with the target and stakeholder groups on an individual basis in a goal-oriented, structured, time-limited, networked and role-based manner.

She uses various methods and instruments and draws on reference theories from various disciplines. It assumes that there is potential for change in families and works in a systemic, participatory, resource-oriented and interdisciplinary manner. The documents its services, taking data protection into account, and makes professional recommendations for the attention of the family and the referring agency.

The quality of one's own actions is reflected and further developed by means of supervision, intervision and the 4-eyes principle.

Principles of work and action of the Parents and Teens Hubs

The activity of the Parents and Teens Hubs specialists is based on the following working and action principles:

Resource and risk orientation

Families are encouraged, empowered and, where necessary, supported to access missing resources as independently as possible and minimize stress. Together with the families and other people involved, it is constantly checked whether the balance between resources and risks is balanced and whether the well-being of the child is guaranteed.

Networking

The networks of the family and the individual family members are developed and expanded in order to expand the relationship and experience space and to increase the ability to connect to social expectations.

Helping people help themselves

The family is supported in finding problem-solving strategies on their own. Successful solutions from the past are taken up and expanded in order to create opportunities for participation and self-design in the present and to enable independent changes in the future.

Stabilization

To increase stability, the family is supported in exploring, maintaining and creating problem-free areas. The ability of the family to adapt to the demands of the environment is increased, and additional and, if necessary, alternative offers to relieve the burden are communicated.

Structured openness

The accompanying process is divided into individual phases. Within these phases, well-founded techniques and instruments that match the family's difficulties and help achieve goals are used flexibly according to the situation. The concrete design of the phases can be justified at any time.

Relationship and role design

Between societal expectations of adjustment, family claims to autonomy and the need for change demanded by professionals, mediation and balance must be constantly provided. In order to exert influence in a goal-oriented manner, an appreciative attitude that respects the family culture, a considered, professional design of one's own role and transparent dealings with all those involved are required.

Confidentiality and data protection

Parents and Teens Hubs specialists are subject to confidentiality. information they are only passed on to third parties with the knowledge and consent of those directly affected

Requirement profile

Parents and Teens Hubs specialists have a university degree in social work at tertiary level as well as professionally relevant further training. They are constantly undergoing further training, have professional experience with children, young people and families, as well as experience in cooperation with authorities, specialist departments and specialists.

Positioning

Parents and Teens Hubs is a specific field of professional social work as part of the AvenirSocial job profile.3 It is committed to the principles of child protection and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child4. AvenirSocial5's code of professional social work forms the ethical basis for working with families.

Advice and Help

Advice and help with teen counselling, crises in the family. We would be happy to advise you personally. Please call us beforehand for an appointment.

We also offer parent counselling for parents who have issues with parenting.

Available 24 hours a day 365 days a year.:

You can reach our trained specialists by phone or e-mail.

Confidential and Anonymous >>>

Our advice is confidential and anonymous if you wish. Telephone and email consultations are free. Personal consultations on site are subject to a fee.

For everyone involved in the upbringing >>>

We are a point of contact for parents of babies, toddlers, children or young people of all ages, young adults as well as family members (relatives, neighbors etc.) and other specialists in the family environment (teachers and care givers).

In educational stress situations >>>

You can discuss your questions about education with us. We advise you, for example, on topics such as having a crying baby, questions about development, dealing with defiance and resistance, puberty/adolescence, school/apprenticeships and the transition to working life.

In the event of conflicts, crises or violence >>>

We provide you with particular support when situations escalate, leading to a conflict, a family crisis or violence. This can be psychological violence, physical violence or sexual violence in the family. We will also help you if there is only a suspicion.