Some children and young people cannot participate equally in public life because of their disability. Integration assistance supports children and young people with disabilities so that they can lead a self-determined life. This integration assistance is aimed at children and young people with a mental disability or a threatened mental disability.

Integration assistance is divided into 4 groups:

• Services for medical rehabilitation
• Services for participation in working life
• Services for participation in education and
• Services for social participation

Integration aids can look like this

• in outpatient form, outside of inpatient facilities, for example, a school companion
• in day care facilities for children or in other semi-inpatient facilities
• in day and night facilities and other forms of residential care
• placement in full-time care (with suitable persons; according to § 35a Para. 2 No. 3 SGB VIII)

A mental disability can be, for example, an anxiety disorder depression, psychosis, autism, ADHD or an eating disorder.

In addition to mental disabilities, there are also physical and mental disabilities. There may also be integration aids for these. Other agencies may be responsible for this. Ask your youth welfare office which agency is responsible for you.