[DeepL:] With the help of a dedicated network, we have created a unique offering in Berlin Spandau: The Open Family Apartments. Here, people of all ages come together and can exchange ideas. Children play in a safe environment, while adults receive professional advice. The service has established itself as a contact point for small and large neighbors and offers children in particular a protected space. The dovetailing of prevention and intervention makes it possible to solve problems in the neighborhoods. Neighborhood becomes a resource, everyone experiences participation in a location without sufficient social infrastructure.
Neighborhoods lacked places that combine both family security and support. In addition, incidents of violence against children prompted the development of a concept to improve their quality of life. The open family homes operate at the interface of community work and prevention on the one hand and intervention (individual case assistance, child protection) on the other. In these places a feeling of togetherness develops, supported by professional coordination and voluntary commitment of neighbors. Children can spend their free time accompanied and are in safe hands. Parents can meet to exchange ideas and get advice if needed.