Unterstützung von Menschen und deren Angehörigen mit psychischen Erkrankungen
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Do you have a mental illness or live with a person with a mental illness? The wide range of assistance is designed to help you participate in social life again.
Integration assistance pursues the goal of preventing an impending mental disability or eliminating or mitigating the consequences of a disability. Your participation in life in the community is to be maintained or restored after a longer stay in hospital or longer isolation.
You will find support in coping with daily life. This includes in particular
- housing
- finances
- household management
- the organization of leisure time
- the promotion of private contacts and hobbies
- visits to public offices (preparation and support), if not the task of a legal guardian
- Parenting
The time of care is usually for a longer period of time and individually designed.
The costs for the services are covered by the competent institution for integration assistance if an individual need for support is determined. If necessary, income and assets are taken into account.
An informal application to the competent authority suffices. This will ask you to use a form and submit further documents.
- the existence of an actual or imminent mental disability
as well as
- a restriction of participation.
The individual need for support is identified in the context of a participation and overall plan procedure by the competent integration assistance institution.
- You shall contact the integration assistance provider responsible for you. There you can ask for advice and support or make an informal application.
- The competent authority will ask you to fill in a form and submit further documents.
- The Authority will carry out a participation and/or overall plan procedure to determine your individual needs for integration assistance.
- When all documents are available, the competent authority checks on the basis of your information whether or to what extent you will receive integration assistance.
- After examining your application, you will receive a notice of approval or rejection.
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The authority to which the application is submitted must determine within two weeks of receipt of the application whether it is responsible for the application. If the authority is not competent, it shall forward the application without delay.
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- Services are intended to avoid inpatient admission to a clinic or living in a special form of housing and to enable independent living
- Services are possible in the home environment or in a special form of living
- Services can be: Information, counseling and referral to medical and psychosocial preventive and aftercare measures.
- Application must be made by the person entitled to benefits or his or her legal representative.
The bodies responsible for integration assistance are responsible.
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, these are the county-free cities and counties.