The family previously received a video greeting from SV98 player Clemens Riedel, who congratulated them on the birth. The sports club also invited the family to the Merck Stadium at the Böllenfalltor. They received a private tour, an honuor and a gift presented by Christoph Zimmermann. This ceremony was accompanied by Mayor Barbara Akdeniz, Nadia Alwan-Häfner, the head of the municipal social service department in the youth welfare office of the science city of Darmstadt, and Leonie Bothe, the specialist service employee.
Every year, around 1,600 families are visited in the “Protect Children – Support Families” model. The specialist service supports families in a low-threshold, unbureaucratic and preventive manner in the period after the birth. The specialists in the Darmstadt model inform, advise and support young families with challenges in the newborn’s first year of life. The positive contact should make the changed life situation easier for the parents and strengthen the parent-child bond; You will continue to receive information about advice and support options for families within the city area. The Darmstadt model represents an important part of the work within the Youth Welfare Office of the Science City of Darmstadt in the context of support for families.
“I am very happy that with this low-threshold offer we can reach all families with children and provide unbureaucratic support,” says Mayor Akdeniz. “It is important to us to stand by the families as they start their new life and family situation. We are also pleased that this creates positive contacts with the youth welfare office of the science city of Darmstadt.”
