Support services at the KVA Vogelsbergkreis – Municipal jobcenter

"DVO – Direktvermittlung for Ort" (direct placement on-site)

Location:     Lauterbach

Provider:     Employer service KVA Vogelsbergkreis – Municipal job center

Duration:     8 weeks, possible extension by 8 weeks if necessary

Requirements for participation: Current application documents

Content:

• Individual single appointments
• Job acquisition from the fund of the employer service
• Support and introduction to potential employers
• Placement of practical trials

"Lia – Leistungsfähigkeit individuell aufzeigen" (highlight performance individually)

Location:     Lauterbach or Alsfeld

Provider:     Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V.

Duration:     6 weeks

Content:

First two weeks (daily, in the morning):
Performance analysis

• Occupational medical examination
• Psychological examination
• Test procedure to determine suitability

Then 3 individual appointments:

• Discussion of test results
• If necessary: Development of career alternatives

For further information please see the flyer.

"ABC – Aufsuchen, Beraten Coachen" (outreach, consult, coach)

Location:     Individual, at your site

Provider:     Hephata – Hessisches Diakoniezentrum e.V.

Duration:     Up to 6 months, extension by 4 months if necessary

Content:     

• Individual coaching at your site
• Support in keeping appointments, e.g. with authorities, doctors, debt counseling, etc.
• Accompaniment to appointments, e.g. with authorities, doctors, etc.
• Support in clarifying health restrictions

Social Coach "Vogelsberger Lebensräume"

Location:     At your site or at the counseling centers in Lauterbach, Alsfeld, Grebenhain, Schlitz, Mücke/Nieder-Ohmen, Schotten

Provider:     Vogelsberger Lebensräume

Duration:     Individual, according to demand

Content:

• Individual life counseling
• Psychosocial counseling and support
• Help for self-help
• Support in keeping appointments, e.g. with authorities, doctors, Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German pension insurance), debt counseling, etc.
• Support in clarifying health restrictions
• Referral to further support services

Social Coach "Beratungszentrum"

Location:     At your site or at the counseling centers throughout the entire Vogelsbergkreis

Provider:     Beratungszentrum Vogelsbergkreis

Duration:     Individual, according to demand

Content:  

• Individual life counseling
• Psychosocial counseling and support
• Help for self-help
• Support in keeping appointments, e.g. with authorities, doctors, Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German pension insurance), debt counseling, etc.
• Support in clarifying health restrictions
• Support with the application for a therapy
• Referral to further support services

"AIDA – Aktivieren-Integrieren-Durchstarten-Ausbilden" (activate-integrate-start-training)

Location:     Alsfeld

Provider:     Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V.

Duration:     Individually up to 12 months with the possibility of extension by another 12 months

Content:

• Experiential education
• Company internships
• Project work (in wood processing, metal processing, paint and housekeeping)
• Job application training
• Addiction and debt prevention
• Basics of healthy living
• Expansion of (job-related) language skills
• Supplementary lessons for the acquisition of a secondary school diploma

For further information please see the flyer.

"BvB – Berufsvorbereitende Bildungsmaßnahmen" (vocational preparation)

Location:     Alsfeld and Lauterbach

Provider:     Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V.

Duration:     Individually up tp 10 months

Content:

• Suitability analysis at the beginning of the measure
• Vocational orientation/choice of profession
• Application training
• Telephone training
• Language promotion
• Company internships
• General education and subsequent acquisition of a secondary school diploma
• Workshops for strengthening IT and media skills
• Specialized theoretical training
• Acquisition of qualification modules from reconized apprenticeships
• Excursions

"DivA – Digital und individuell vermittelt in Ausbildung" (digitally and individually mediated into an apprenticeship)

Location:     Lauterbach

Provider:     Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V.

Duration:     4 to 6 months

Content:

• Vocational orientation
• Identification and mediation of digital skills
• Vocational guidance
• Getting to know companies
• Creative projects
• Promotion of the german language (job-related language)
• Practical trials
• Job application training
• Provision of mobile devices
• Parents' café

For further information please see the flyer.

Qualification & Employment of young people            

Location:     Schotten

Provider:     Schottener Soziale Dienste gGmbH

Duration:     Individually up to 12 months with the possibility of extension

Content:

• Personality development and promotion of social skills
• Promotion of practical life skills
• Strengthening of self-esteem
• Competence assessment
• Vocational orientation in the following professions: Painting and varnishing, building trades, locksmithery, carpentry, gardening and landscaping, housekeeping, kitchen, service and hospitality
• Practical trials
• Language promotion classes / job-related language promotion classes (if required)

For further information please see the flyer.

"Wirtschaft integriert" (economy integrated)

Location:     Alsfeld and Lauterbach

Provider:     Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e. V.

Duration:     individual

Contents:

Promotion module "Vocational orientation BOplus" (4-6 months)

• Competence assessment
• Get to know the training system and different apprenticeships
• Try out at least three professions
• Make a career decision
• Receive help in finding an internship or apprenticeship

Promotion module "Introductory training EQplus" (6-12 months)

• Long-term internship (3,5 days per week)
• Support lessons (1,5 days per week)
• Preparation for the apprenticeship

Promotion module "Apprenticeship assistance ABplus" (2-3,5 years, depending on the apprenticeship)

• In-company training
• Attendance in a vocational school
• Additional support lessons (4-8 hours per week)

Accompanying offer (overarching)

• Job-related language promotion
• Integration assistence
• Social pedagogical guidance

A "Bildungsgutschein" finances further training and retraining in accordance with § 16 I SGB II and § 81 SGB III.

It can be issued if the further education is necessary so that unemployment can be ended, threatened unemployment can be avoided or a vocational qualification can be made up for.

The educational institution of choice must be authorized to provide further education via "Bildungsgutschein".

Interested? Please contact us!

In accordance with § 45 SGB III the "Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein (AVGS)" promotes the personal skills and abilities of unemployed and job-seeking people in order to improve their chances on the primary labor market. This offer supports „measures for activation and professional integration“.

There is no legal claim to an AVGS.

If you would like to participate in a suitable and helpful offer, please consult your contact person at the KVA Vogelsbergkreis.

"Psychosoziale Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle der Vogelsberger Lebensräume"

Counseling:
The psychosocial contact and counseling center is an independent service integrated into the two psychiatric centers of the "Vogelsberger Lebensräume" in Lauterbach and Alsfeld (as well as at the locations Schlitz, Grebenhain, Schotten, Mücke and Homberg/Ohm).

The aim of the counseling is to support mentally ill people and people in life crises in maintaining or rediscovering the scope of action which enables them to lead a self-determined life – if necessary with the support of relatives, friends and neighbors.

Coaching:
This offer encourages self-reflection on the professional life in relation to the personal life goals.

Hereby, individual competencies, interests and goals are brought into accordance with the requirements of the work context in a way that all resources and abilities are optimally applied.

In this way, the ability to act in difficult situations is regained.

"Beratungszentrum Vogelsberg"

The "Beratungszentrum Vogelsbergkreis" – formerly the "Jugend- und Drogenberatung Suchthilfe im Vogelsbergkreis" – is a point of contact for many topics related to family, partnership and addiction problems.

It offers the following services:

• Addiction counseling
• Educational guidance
• Regardless of the age
• Prevention offers

Debt counseling

The Vogelsbergkreis dept counseling service aims to find solutions on how to secure the livelihood of its clients in the short term and how to reduce their debts in the long term.

The following services are offered:

• Counseling for individuals who can no longer meet their payment obligations
• Online counseling
• Help in dealing with creditors
• Advice on issues of compulsory enforcement, including the garnishment table
• Advice on "consumer bankruptcy" in accordance with the Insolvency Code (recognized advice center in accordance with § 305 InsO)

For further information please visit the website.