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Help with re-entry

Do you have a physical, mental or emotional disability and need support to (re)enter the workforce? Or do you employ people with health restrictions and have questions about vocational rehabilitation? The Jobcenter Stuttgart can help you.

Or you are an employer and have employees
with health restrictions?
And you have questions about the topic of vocational rehabilitation?
Then the Jobcenter Stuttgart can help you.

Health is important at work

You would like to find a job.
Or you would like to start working again.
Then your health is important.
Especially if you have been sick for a long time.
Or if you have a disability.
Or if you had to flee from another country.
Because this experience of flight can also have consequences for the body.
Many then ask themselves:

Can I work at all?
And how do I find a suitable job?
And what are suitable working hours for me?
Can I still learn a new profession?
Are there also therapy offers?

The Jobcenter Stuttgart supports you with these and other questions.
You get help on your way into work.
Or into training.
And that also despite health difficulties.

Contact point for vocational rehabilitation

Vocational rehabilitation means:
All measures that help:
A person can have a job.
Or can have a job again.
For example, after a long illness.
Or with a disability.

The Jobcenter Stuttgart is the point of contact on the subject of
vocational rehabilitation.

The  contact point of the Jobcenter Stuttgart
helps employees and employers with questions on this topic.
And the job center can also put you in touch with other counseling centers and rehabilitation providers.
Rehabilitation agencies are, for example, the Agentur für Arbeit.
Or the German Pension Insurance.

At the contact point for vocational rehabilitation of the Jobcenter Stuttgart you can get information about:

  • Offers of professional counseling
    Counseling can also be provided by people
    who are themselves disabled.
  • Training programs for re-entry
    into the working life
  • Money as financial help for the re-entry
    into the working life
  • The personal budget
    This allows you to decide for yourself:
    What support do I want to receive?
  • The application for vocational rehabilitation

Would you like to get advice from the contact point?
Then please make an appointment beforehand.

The Contact Point can only give you general information.
The Contact Point does not carry out any tests:
Do you need vocational rehabilitation?
Are you entitled to vocational rehabilitation?
The rehabilitation institutions do the checking.
This is, for example, the Employment Agency.
Or the German pension insurance.

Medical-psychological service

At the Jobcenter Stuttgart there is also the
Medical-Psychological Service.
The abbreviation for this is MPD.
Various specialists work at the MPD.
For example, doctors and psychologists.
The specialists from the MPD provide counseling for

  • people who receive benefits from the Job Center
  • The personal contact persons,
    who work at the Jobcenter.

The consultation can be about, for example:
What influence can the health restrictions
of the person have on the job search and the working life?
What influence can the psycho-social restrictions of the person
have on the person's job search and working life?

The specialists of MPD will help you confidentially and reliably.

You get unemployment benefit 2?
Unemployment benefit 2 is also called Hartz 4.
And you have problems with your health?
And this has consequences for your working life?
Then your personal contact person from the Jobcenter Stuttgart can
will be happy to advise you.

Do you have an appointment with the MPD?
Or you would like to make an appointment with the MPD?
And you would like to know beforehand:
What actually happens at such an appointment?
Then your personal contact person at the Jobcenter Stuttgart can
will be happy to inform you.

Important:
You cannot make the appointment with the MPD yourself.
Your personal contact person at the Jobcenter must make the appointment.

Good to know:
The conversations and appointments at the MPD also have the doctor-patient confidentiality.
This means:
The employees of the MPD are not allowed to tell anything to others.
Your personal contact person at the job center is also not allowed to see your
see your medical records.

You give your information to the MPD voluntarily.
The MPD complies with data protection regulations.


Translated and checked by the Braunschweig Office for Easy Language © Lebenshilfe Braunschweig

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