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Early Assistance

Support for expectant parents and for families with infants and young children
A child changes a parent’s life in many ways. Once a child is born, the first few weeks and months after the birth are sometimes not easy. There are many questions and uncertainties, and a crying baby and sleepless nights can be a severe test for you as parents.
To support you in this special phase of life, early assistance is available – reliable information, counselling and support programmes from the beginning of pregnancy up to the third birthday of your child.
Early assistance is aimed at all families who feel that they are overwhelmed in their current situation and want help and support. The early assistance programmes are preventative and voluntary. Families can take advantage of them without any bureaucratic red tape. The aim of early assistance is to work with the parents to ensure that their children grow up in a healthy way.
Early assistance programmes are available in all 12 Berlin districts. District networks ensure good cooperation between the various specialists. The networks and programmes are funded by the Federal Foundation for Early Assistance and state and district funds.
Programmes and contacts
There is a wide variety of early assistance programmes. Family midwives, family health workers and childcare workers as well as volunteer helpers will provide you with advice and assistance if you wish and will support and counsel you in dealing with your infant or small child.
Through the early assistance programmes, families are strengthened in dealing with their infants and small children, and the development of a stable parent-child bond is supported.
There are contacts in each district who can help you find the right programme for you.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Ursula Freymark
Telefon +49 30 9029-14832
ursula.freymark@charlottenburg-wilmersdorf.de
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Kristine Balzer
Telefon +49 30 90298-4458
kristine.balzer@ba-fk.berlin.de
Lichtenberg
Viola König
Telefon +49 30 90296-7084
viola.koenig@lichtenberg.berlin.de
Mitte
Konstanze Böhnke
Telefon +49 30 90182-2380
k.boehnke@ba-mitte.berlin.de
Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Nadine Krutki
Telefon +49 30 90293-4450
nadine.krutki@ba-mh.berlin.de
Neukölln
Ilona Massel
Telefon +49 30 90239-2759
ilona.massel@bezirksamt-neukoelln.de
Pankow
Marion Sperber
Telefon +49 30 90295-7440
fruehehilfen@ba-pankow.berlin.de
Reinickendorf
Doris Niemeyer-Wagener
Telefon +49 30 90294-6058
doris.niemeyer-wagener@reinickendorf.berlin.de
Spandau
Stefanie Huber
Telefon +49 30 90279-3272
s.huber@ba-spandau.berlin.de
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Petra Linke
Telefon +49 30 90299-6414
petra.linke@ba-sz.berlin.de
Treptow-Köpenick
Anja Hartfiel
Telefon +49 30 90297-4957
hartfiel.jug@ba-tk.berlin.de
Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Manfred Schulz (in Vertretung)
Telefon +49 30 90277-6016
manfred.schulz@ba-ts.berlin.de
You can find the district programmes of early assistance and other useful contact points for everything having to do with childbirth in the district ‘timetables and guides’.
Charlottenburg Wilmersdorf
Frühe Hilfen und
Fahrplan
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Lichtenberg
Frühe Hilfen und Wegweiser
Mitte
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Neukölln
Kinder- und Jugendgesundheitsdienst: Sozialpädagogisches Angebot und Familienhebammen
Neuköllner Präventionskette, App Gesundes Neukölln und Neuköllner Familiengutschein
Pankow
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Reinickendorf
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Spandau
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Treptow-Köpenick
Frühe Hilfen und Fahrplan
Family midwives and family health and childcare workers
If required, family midwives and family health and childcare workers will accompany you during pregnancy and support you with your baby in the first few months. They will support and show you how the baby is well cared for and give you tips on whom to turn to if you have problems. On request, they can provide you with further support offerings from the health system and child and youth welfare services.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Manuela Knopff
Telefon +49 30 9029-16242
cw503140@charlottenburg-wilmersdorf.de
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Giovanna Aceves Vivanco
Telefon +49 30 90298-7335
giovanna.acevesvivanco@ba-fk.berlin.de
Anett Maskow
Telefon 0157 77419869
maskow@stuetzrad.net
Lichtenberg
Viola König
Telefon +49 30 90296-7084
viola.koenig@lichtenberg.berlin.de
TBA
Starke Brücken
Telefon +49 30 68078400 und +49 174 3142604
info@starke-bruecken.de
Karolina Nowak
Telefon +49 152 09080074
nowak@familienanlauf.de
Mitte
Heidi Fischer
Telefon +49 30 9018-33251
heidi.fischer@ba-mitte.berlin.de
Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Nadine Krutki
Telefon +49 30 90293-4450
nadine.krutki@ba-mh.berlin.de
Neukölln
Beate Bakalara de Lita
Telefon +49 30 90239-1290
beate.bakalara@bezirksamt-neukoelln.de
Pankow
Marion Lieberenz
Telefon +49 30 90295-3030
marion.lieberenz@ba-pankow.berlin.de
Reinickendorf
Birgit Zacharias
Telefon +49 30 90294-5131
birgit.zacharias@reinickendorf.berlin.de
Elisabeth Keppel
Telefon +49 30 43661664
keppel@trapez-berlin.de
Martina Triphaus
Telefon +49 30 408983714
triphaus@horizonte.biz
Spandau
Sabrina Pflüger
Telefon +49 30 90279-8104
s.pflueger@ba-spandau.berlin.de
Patricia Sanches Lima
Telefon +49 30 337738421
patricia.sancheslima@kompaxx.de
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Christiane Franke
Telefon +49 30 90299-5746
christiane.franke@ba-sz.berlin.de
Treptow-Köpenik
Sigrun Zenke (für Treptow)
Telefon +49 163 1494787
zenke@offensiv91.de
Angelika Schmutz (für Köpenick)
Telefon +49 30 64897798
schmutz@msbw-online.de
Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Christiane Hollburg
Telefon +49 30 90277-6987
hollburg@ba-ts.berlin.de
Volunteer projects
Parental assistance outreach
Berlin family centres
District youth welfare offices
Child and Youth Health Service (KJGD)
As a brand-new parent, you will have a lot of questions and will be looking for competent contacts. “Are we good parents or are we doing something wrong? Is our child crying too much? Is it developing in a way that is age-appropriate?” State-approved social workers from the child and youth health service will answer your questions, be the contact persons in your new life situation and provide targeted assistance and offerings in the immediate vicinity.
Parents in psychosocially stressed situations in particular are easily reached through the health-oriented approach that provides them with low-threshold and tailor-made support programmes. Here the child and youth health service works closely with public and private youth welfare organisations and associations.
During the medical consultation hours, children starting at infancy can be presented and examined and parents can get advice on various issues (e.g., child development, sleeping and eating behaviour, health issues, vaccinations and vaccination counselling, etc.).
Centres for Sexual Health and Family Planning
There are five Centres for Sexual Health and Family Planning in Berlin that offer medical and social counselling and assistance on the following topics:
• Family planning
• Pregnancy
• Counselling in pregnancy conflict
• Psychological counselling for individuals and couples
• Information and counselling on infections and AIDS
• Social counselling
• Drug, alcohol and addiction counselling
• Counselling on support options, such as parental assistance outreach
You can find the Centres for Sexual Health and Family Planning in
Since not every location offers counselling on every topic, please make appropriate enquiries in advance.
Parenting and family counselling
Baby Guides
One of the building blocks of the Early Assistance networks is the Baby Guide prevention project, which is to be expanded to all maternity clinics in Berlin’s hospitals after a successful model phase. If there are any indications of stress having to do with the birth, the Baby Guides will be your contacts. They will clarify in a personal conversation whether you will need support during your first time together with your newborn and provide specific contact persons and customised assistance. The Baby Guides will help ensure that you can look forward to family life well-informed and well cared for after the birth of your child.
Additional counselling centres
First contacts for expectant mothers and fathers
The following contact persons are available to you for a confidential consultation on questions about your child’s development or concerns in everyday family life:
• Gynaecologists
• Midwives and male midwives, Child health care workers
• Social educational specialists for
pregnancy (conflict) counselling
• Employees of the maternity clinics and birth centres
• Paediatricians
• Surgery staff, medical assistants
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