Germany: admission of unaccompanied minors

The project strengthens the arrival, support and integration systems for refugee children and adolescents who enter Germany without adult adults. The project goal is the advice, qualification and networking of actors involved in unaccompanied underage, so that they contribute to protection, to the well -being and the equal participation of children and adolescents.

Direct target group are colleagues from advice centers, specialists from authorities, judiciary and public and free youth welfare and volunteers, such as guardianships, which are dealt with with unaccompanied minors.

Project measures include the research to change legal areas, a needs analysis and continuous advisory practice. The focus is also on the transfer of knowledge, the networking and the qualification of honorary and full-time actors, according to the special needs of the unaccompanied children, adolescents and young adults. Finally, specialist dialogues take place in order to contribute to a cross -legally and networked cooperation of the systems dealing with unaccompanied minors.

Project partner of Terre des Hommes is the Federal Association of Unaccompanied Minor Refugees EV (BUMF). The project takes up the experiences and good approaches of the previous project ("from welcome to the arrival") and stabilizes them.