[DeepL:] The German Family Association, Landesverband Berlin e.V. is the founder of the first specialized debt counseling center in social work in the state of Berlin.
We provide holistic advice. The advice covers financial-legal, life-practical and psychosocial interests. It also has an educational and preventive effect.
The counseling is free of charge for the person seeking advice.
Our counseling principles are: Voluntariness, guidance for self-help, orientation towards resources, right to self-determination of the person seeking advice, guarantee of data protection, commitment, mediation between the parties in the interest of the client.
Our strength is our experienced staff. They are motivated, professionally qualified and regularly undergo further training.
Since 1984, we have been advising families and individuals who can no longer meet their payment obligations. Our social workers support those seeking advice in their efforts to deal responsibly with their financial possibilities and to gradually reduce their debts. As a recognized counseling center, we also provide counseling after the insolvency proceedings.
Our main areas of advice are:
We provide debtor and insolvency counseling in the districts of Reinickendorf, Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Mitte-Tiergarten.