Bremen KiFaZ Service Center

The KiFaZ Bremen service center is responsible for the operational implementation, coordination, and municipal networking of the KiFaZ project. It provides advisory and training support to participating daycare centers and has been located at the State Institute for Schools (LIS) since January 2024.

The KiFaZ Bremen service center is responsible for the operational implementation, coordination, and municipal networking of the KiFaZ project. It provides advisory and training support to participating daycare centers and has been located at the State Institute for Schools (LIS) since January 2024.

Through KiFaZ, the City of Bremen, together with the Auridis Foundation, supports the community-based collaboration between daycare centers and families, as well as their further development into children's and family centers within the framework of the Bremen Social Pedagogy Program. The aim is to provide children and their families with low-threshold and needs-based access to tailored support and educational services through their daycare center in their local community.

Areas of responsibility

• Support for quality assurance and quality development in the KiFaZ Bremen project
• Monitoring and reporting of the KiFaZ Bremen project
• Templates and impulses for the professional and strategic development of daycare centers in Bremen
• Linking the KiFaZ strategy to nationwide developments in the field of “Integrated services for children and families”
• Representation of the interests of the KiFaZ Bremen project in committees, state politics and legislative initiatives
• Implementation and consulting for the development strategy of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for the expansion and further development of children's and family centers in Bremen.

Process support KiFaZ Bremen

Through its process support, the KiFaZ service center offers regular guidance and advice to daycare centers on their path to becoming children's and family centers. It also provides professional support to daycare centers in further developing their programs in the areas of family education and support.

Accompanying offers

In addition to the process support provided by the KiFaZ service center within the framework of the development cycle and the available working materials, the following optional offers can be used by the daycare centers participating in the KiFaZ project.

We currently offer the following training formats and consultations:

• education course “Specialist in Children's and Family Centers (KiFaZ) Bremen”
  The course consists of 5 modules (8 days) covering the 5 development areas at the operational level and concludes with a certificate of completion as a “Specialist in Children's and Family Centers Bremen”. Practical assignments between modules promote the transfer of theory into practice.

The target groups for this training are social pedagogues (coordinators) and specialist advisors. The training strengthens their competence in shaping change processes in children's and family centers and in advising these institutions accordingly. Three training sessions are planned between 2021 and 2022. Depending on the available time resources of the KiFaZ service center, further sessions will be offered in 2022 if needed.

• Basic Knowledge of
  the Children and Family Center (KiFaZ): This offer is aimed at the pedagogical staff of participating daycare centers. In a two-and-a-half-hour online event, participants will be informed about the tasks and goals of a children and family center and their own role in the project will be strengthened, because a KiFaZ thrives with and through the entire team. Therefore, as many team members as possible should be familiar with the structure and goals of the project.

• Management Workshop for Children and Family Centers (KiFaZ):
  Managers within their institutions bear strategic responsibility and control over the "Development into a Children and Family Center (KiFaZ) Bremen" project and therefore have their own perspective on the project. To address the needs of managers involved in the project, workshops on various relevant topics are offered and addressed from their point of view. This event format also provides managers with an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences.

• Telephone consultation:
  The KiFaZ service center provides institutions with a 3-hour time allocation per year for telephone consultations.

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen,
State Institute for Schools,
Department of School Development – ​​Continuing Education,
Section 10 – Early Childhood Education – Primary Schools – All-Day School,
Service Center for Children's and Family Centers