Gut vernetzt in die Zukunft. Drei Bildungsberatungseinrichtungen und ihre strukturelle Einbindung

This article presents three innovative counselling institutions with different organizational structures from different regions of Germany. The Berlin job assistance centres (Berliner Jobassistencen in German) are independent counselling institutions in which those in search of advice can receive counselling on educational and career related topics as well as social, youth and debt counselling services directly in these institutions. In the state of Lower Saxony, there is a counselling network coordinated throughout the state that consists of twelve different regional support centres. To reach people in the countryside better, this network has set up counselling centres “on site” in the town halls of the municipalities. The third example is the counselling network in Freiburg, a central information point integrated into a counselling network in the centre of Freiburg whose task is to increase the transparency of the different educational and counselling services in the city and pool the offerings. These three examples represent three options for organizing lifelong guidance: independently, connected to institutions or integrated into a professional network. What all three have in common is good networking and public funding – two conditions for success that will also be relevant in the future. The authors demand that the limited period of funding be extended and lifelong guidance be anchored in municipal and state budgets as an integrated long-term task in order to head into the future as part of a good network. (Ed.)