Förderstätten für Menschen mit Behinderung und Tagesstruktureinrichtungen für erwachsene Menschen mit Behinderung nach dem Erwerbsleben; Beantragung einer Investitionsförderung

The Free State of Bavaria supports so-called support centers for people with disabilities and day structure facilities for adults with disabilities after working life (T-ENE) by granting grants to facility operators for construction investments.

Purpose

The funding is intended to enable the employment, stimulation and activation of people with disabilities outside their home or residential group in so-called support centers or T-ENE facilities.

Visitors to support centres are people with disabilities who do not or do not yet meet the requirements for employment in a workshop and who can no longer find a place in the support group of a recognized workshop for people with disabilities (WfbM) - combined in groups or divided into individual groups in the work area.

T-ENE visitors are older people with disabilities who have reached the end of their working life, in particular those who have left the sheltered workshop or the support center. The aim is to provide them with needs-based assistance and enable them to lead as individual a life as possible.

The support centers and T-ENE facilities are permanent integration assistance facilities.

Support centres are independent integration assistance facilities that also cooperate with a recognized workshop in order to provide an introduction to the vocational training area of the workshop, to mitigate the consequences of the disability, to participate in life in the community and to relieve the family.

T-ENE facilities are independent facilities of integration assistance that offer people with disabilities in old age the choice between different services according to their personal needs, so that this stage of life can be as self-determined as possible in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Object

The (new) construction of support facilities or T-ENE facilities is the object of the funding. The operation and ongoing (building) maintenance are not eligible for funding. State grants are awarded for support facilities that are physically connected to recognized workshops for disabled people (WfbM) or physically connected to inpatient residential facilities. In exceptional cases, the construction of a separate support facility is also eligible for funding, provided it also cooperates with a recognized workshop.

Funding is available for

• New construction, conversion, extension, fundamental modernization (not renovation) and the equipping of support facilities and T-ENE facilities,
• Acquisition of a building, its conversion or repair.

Funding is not available for measures whose eligible expenditure does not exceed EUR 100,000.

Recipients of funding

Applications may be submitted by non-profit organizations with legal capacity.

Type and scope of funding

• Building and space programme
• Site plan of the building project and its surroundings with drawn-in planning and boundaries as well as representation of the development

  (Scale 1: 1.000, a general plan is not necessary)

• plans that verifiably demonstrate the nature and scope of the project

  (Scale 1: 100, if necessary with furniture drawn in)

• Building inspectorate or other approvals

  (e.g. statement of the Fachstelle für Pflege- und Behinderteneinrichtungen - Qualitätsentwicklung und Aufsicht (FQA); preliminary decision or similar are sufficient)

• Property sheet
• if necessary, explanatory report according to model 6 to Art. 44 BayHO

  (in particular with a general description of the construction and function and information on the location and nature of the construction site as well as the type of construction and execution)

• Area composition
• Calculations for construction according to DIN 276 (1993 edition), DIN 277 (1986 edition) and DIN 283
• Auditable cost estimate for equipment
  1. for costs of general interior furnishings, kitchen and common rooms (excluding 2)
  2. for costs of workplace equipment
• evidence of the own resources provided for in the financing plan and of the external resources approved, committed and envisaged
• Overview of assets and liabilities as well as expected future obligations, balance sheet and profit and loss account of the last year, budget estimate for the current year, profitability calculation, current daily cost rate
• Articles of association with list of board members or corresponding documents, proof of recognition of "non-profit status" of the institution's sponsor, excerpt from register
• Land register excerpt according to the latest status

  (purchase, lease or usage agreement, if applicable)

• Additions

The above-mentioned measures are funded in accordance with the Bavarian Budget Regulations if, among other things, the following conditions are met:

• Recognition of need and approval of the location by the supra-local social welfare provider;
• Submission of a concept that meets the requirements of the disability sector, also in terms of inclusion, as well as a spatial and functional program approved by the supra-local provider of integration assistance and the executive authority responsible for state funding, in particular taking into account the principle of economic efficiency and economy. The room and functional program must always address the multiple use of rooms and circulation areas with another facility separately;
• Compliance with the applicable DIN standard for handicapped-accessible construction to the extent required for the group of persons;
• Guarantee that the provider can properly operate and maintain a support center or T-ENE facility;
• Proof of securing the overall financing and at least 10% participation of the locally responsible districts.

The application and approval process is free of charge.

Application and approval procedure

• The applicant contacts the responsible district administration to check the need and the location and the subsequent determination of the need by resolution.

• Notification of the planned project by the applicant to the office responsible for funding.

• In the case of a future application with funding for the acquisition of land: Examination of the planned land prior to acquisition for its suitability as a location for a facility for the disabled and cost review by the responsible authority and district. The suitability of the property depends on the type and extent of use and the building regulations of the municipalities. For this reason, the suitability of the property should be coordinated with the municipal urban land-use planning department as early as possible in order to clarify the legal planning requirements, such as the type and extent of use, urban integration, architectural design and development in advance of the construction planning.

• Preparation of a concept with a spatial and functional program by the applicant.

• Expert advice to the developer and review of the concept and the spatial and functional program by the responsible authority and the district.

• Determination of the spatial and functional program in cooperation between the responsible body and the district. This determination does not yet constitute a funding commitment.

• The applicant enters the preliminary planning phase with a cost/area calculation and cost estimate in accordance with DIN 276 and coordination with the approval authorities. The approval body also advises the project sponsor on the basic technical and economic concept of the project and assesses the estimated expenditure.

• The approval office will coordinate the overall financing.

• The approval office notifies the project to the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labor and Social Affairs (StMAS) and, if the approval offices for housing promotion at the governments, the state capital Munich, the cities of Augsburg or Nuremberg are responsible, to the Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Construction and Transport.

• By March 15 of the respective funding year at the latest, the approval office will communicate a priority list of the projects planned in its area of responsibility after consultation with the responsible district and the StMAS.

• The StMAS decides on the inclusion of a project - within the scope of the available funds - in the annual funding program (JFP), taking into account the priority lists and the priority of the state in terms of disability. Decisions on the respective JFP are made depending on the state budget, among other things. Projects that cannot initially be considered due to a lack of funds must be submitted again the following year and will be considered again when the next JFP is drawn up.

• The approval authorities inform the project sponsor of the decision made and, after submission of the necessary application documents, in particular the concrete design input planning with cost calculation in accordance with DIN 276, and after a technical building inspection, issue the approval notice regarding the granting of state funding (financing share of the StMAS). The district, which also participates in the investment funding, issues its own approval notice for its grant - usually 10% of the eligible expenditure.
  
  The StMAS funding is usually approved using commitment appropriations if it is only due for payment in future years. This represents a binding commitment of funds for the responsible body, so that it can begin construction and be sure that these funds will actually be paid out in the following financial years. However, these state funds are not only disbursed according to the progress of construction (this is a basic requirement), but can only be disbursed successively within the framework of the expenditure funds available in the respective financial year and depending on the other projects also under construction. The consequence of this is that the sponsors have to provide interim financing for some of their projects. This is expressly pointed out to the sponsors in the approval notice.
  
  Insofar as the funding procedure is carried out by the approval offices for housing promotion, the notification of the approved state funds is sent by the Bayerische Landesbodenkreditanstalt, which also handles the collateralization of the approved funding and disburses the funds.

At least 1 to 2 years should be allowed for the above-mentioned process. If the project has been allocated annual funding, the processing time from application to notification of approval is approx. 3-6 months.

The projects must be reported to the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labor and Social Affairs by March 15 of each year for inclusion in the annual funding program of the respective year (see above). The projects should therefore be reported to the governments by the applicants by mid-January of each year at the latest.