Germany is one of the largest host countries for refugees. After numerous traumatic experiences in their home country, many refugees often also often go through arduous escape routes. In the last 20 years, CHILDREN FOR TOMORROW has been able to establish a unique therapeutic care of these refugee children and adolescents with the “Refugee outpatient service for children and adolescents and their families” in Hamburg. The multicultural and interdisciplinary 15-person team provides outpatient care for up to 500 children a year. The aim is to provide refugee children and adolescents with orientation in the country of exile, in addition to stabilizing their emotional world.
What we offer
- Treatment of refugee children under the age of 18 living in Hamburg
- Specially trained Trauma-Therapists and partially native speaking therapists
- Multi-disciplinary team of doctors, psychotherapists, social workers, educators, psychologists, and art-therapists
- Continuous support from experienced interpreters
- Individual and group therapies
- Long-term therapies with regular weekly sessions
- Close connection with the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) with options of admission to other services within the hospital
507
Children were treated in the ambulance in 2018
20
Months was the average time the children had been in germany before they got registered at the foundation
75
of the patients came to Germany on their own
Therapy offers
Origin countries, age and sex of patients 2018
- Average age: 16 years
- Distribution by sex
- male
- female