Guide for Marzahn-Hellersdorf

In the beginning you will have many questions, such as:

• Where can I take part in a German class?
• Who can help me looking for an apartment?
• Who can help me looking for a place to work?
• What leisure activities are there?
• Who do I turn to for questions regarding health?

This guide will give you answers to these questions. You will get an overview of all that is on offer in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. There is a lot to discover. Our colleagues working at the public office are available and on hand with help and advice.

Our neighbourhood is a place of diversity, in which people feel at home. I would like to invite you to take advantage of all the possibilities available. Help us by contributing and enriching our diversity. I wish you all the best, hope that you quickly settle in and that you find the brochure helpful. Have fun reading it!

• Offices for public services
• Offices for refugee services
• Social housing voucher (to access accommodation with reduced rent)
• Rent benefit
• Homeless support
• Registry office
• Parental custody
• Acknowledgement of paternity
• Child maintenance
• Parenting and family counselling

• Voucher for nursery
• Voucher for after school care centre
• School registration
• School screening
• Education and participation
• Educational offers for adults
• Alice Salomon Hochschule (University of applied science)

• Pregnancy and family counselling
• Child and youth health care
• Child and youth psychiatric support
• Socio-psychiatric support
• Dental care
• Drugs and addiction counselling
• Help for those with disabilities and cancer
• Help with general living costs
• Child maintenance advance
• Parental benefit

• Youth career agency
• Unemployment benefit (‘Arbeitslosengeld II’)
• Job centre

• Libraries
• Music schools
• Department of Culture
• Volunteer agency
• Kultur Leben Berlin e.V. (cultural life berlin)

• Other Points of Contact
• Language training
• Youth migration services
• Migration counselling
• Migration social services

• Public service line
• Emergency calls
• Emergency health services
• Children in distress
• Women in distress