Country promotes intercultural parent-mentoring programs

The use of intercultural educational mentors increases the educational opportunities of children with their own or family immigration history. The country promotes such programs 2022 with a total of 300,000 euros.

The country will also promote the use of intercultural parent mentors in the coming year. This was shared by the Social and Integration Minister manne lucha On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 in Stuttgart. The mentors have an important bridge function between parents with escape or migration history and the educational institutions. With the support of their parents, they want to increase the children's educational and opportunities. The country provides a total of 300,000 euros in 2022.

"Children with their own or family immigration history still have unequal educational opportunities. We have to change that," said the Minister of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Manne Lucha. The situation has intensified with the Covid 19 pandemic. Educational opportunities are now even more dependent on the family's family situation. "Here we have to intervene as a country and offer support for families," said Lucha.

Additional support for more equal opportunities

educational opportunities for children still depend on socio -economic factors such as the level of education or the profession of parents. Children with their own or family immigration history in particular often have worse educational opportunities than peers without this experience. These were the results of the Society Reports 2/2020 "Child poverty and migration background" (PDF) . "The current Corona pandemic has hit these families particularly hard and presented many new challenges. That is why newly immigrant families and families with migration history urgently need additional support," continued Lucha.

The strengthening of the educational responsibility of newly drawn families and families with a history of migration is therefore of crucial importance for the future of children. Parents-mentoring programs can advise and support parents and parenting officers in particular on pedagogical questions. This increases the educational opportunities of children from immigrant families and creates an important prerequisite for equal opportunities.

That is why the country also promotes intercultural parentingoring programs with a total of 300,000 euros in 2022. Both municipalities as well as freelancers such as clubs, migrant organizations or foundations can apply. The application deadline is the 31.01.2022.

Parents-mentoring programs 2022: Application form