agil in Wolfsburg

In the course of the agile project, a close-knit support network between the Wolfsburg Job Centre and the local medical-therapeutic or psychosocial counselling facilities is to be created. 

The aim is to provide early support for young long-term unemployed people with mental health problems in Wolfsburg. The targeted and coordinated cooperation of the individual facilities is intended to pick up young people between the ages of 18 and 35 with addiction and/or mental illnesses at an early stage in their respective living environment and to provide needs-based support in maintaining or restoring their ability to work and earn a living.

For this purpose, existing services and facilities in Wolfsburg are successively integrated. The individual services are coordinated and interlinked within the framework of cooperation on an institutional and individual level, including the vocational perspective of those seeking help. The aim is to provide every person seeking help with timely access to counselling, treatment and rehabilitation services as well as customised integration measures.

The project is evaluated by conducting qualitative interviews and focus groups with staff of the job centres and staff of the health services participating in the project as well as with participants of the project. In addition, a quantitative questionnaire survey of the participants in the project is conducted over several measurement points in order to record the utilisation of the health services, the change in general and mental health as well as the ability to participate in the course of the project. In addition, routine data from the job centre is collected in order to record the course of the work biography during the project phase.