District: Osterholz
Next date: Thu. 30.04.2026, 12:00 – 15:30

STRENGTHENING YOUTH: Bridges to Independence (JUST Best): Individual and personal support in everyday life

At the Gröpelingen youth counselling center, young adults receive individual and personal support in difficult personal situations – for example, when moving into their first apartment, dealing with debt, or dropping out of school or vocational training.

The project aims to provide guidance and support in finding housing. It is aimed at young people and young adults aged 16 to 26 on the cusp of independence with special support needs from Gröpelingen and Bremen-Mitte, and offers a free, easily accessible contact point in Bremen West (Gröpelingen) including an initial assessment.

  • Thursdays: open consultation (no appointment necessary) and free lunch
  • Outreach work / mobile counselling services
  • intensive individual case management
  • Housing advice
  • Referral and support also to other institutions
  • Guides in the local network
    • If needed, accompaniment to authorities, external providers and specialist advice centers
    • Establishing contacts with businesses, offices and authorities

Cooperation partners

  • Office for Social Services/ Social Center Gröpelingen
  • Gröpelingen youth leisure center
  • Center for Girls Gröpelingen
  • Bremen Youth Employment Agency
  • Get ready for the future (BeK)
  • [docking
  • Central Housing Office
  • Bremen and Bremerhaven Integration Network (bin)
  • Association for Inner Mission Bremen» Association for the Promotion of Accepting Youth Work (VAJA eV)
  • Health Meeting Point West

The project “Youth Counselling Gröpelingen” is funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and by the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the program “Strengthening Youth: Bridges to Independence”.

Line

E. Buchmann-Jaber,
Seewenjestr. 98a,
28237 Bremen, Germany
, Phone: +49 421 6990 9448 or +49 176 4341 9027
, e.buchmann-jaber(at)wabeq.de

Tessa Engelbrecht

0176/4341 9500

Elisabeth Buchmann-Jaber

0176/4341 9027

Anna Becker

0176/4339 3515

Appointments can be made by telephone
at 0421 / 69 90 94 48

Open consultation hours
without appointment
every Thursday, 12:00 to 15:30

 

Cost:
free

Upcoming events:
Thu. April 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m. -
3:30
p.m. Thu.
May 7, 2026, 12:00 p.m. - 3:30
p.m. June 4, 2026, 12:00 – 3:30 p.m