Counselling in accommodation - Family midwives

We offer health counselling by family midwives in shared accommodation.

Course description

Family midwives visit families in community centres for asylum seekers and homeless people. They answer questions about pregnancy, but also after the birth until the child is three months old. Interpreters are called in if necessary. The service is voluntary and free of charge.

Counselling services offered by family midwives during pregnancy and in the postnatal period:

  • Prevention
  • Hygiene
  • Female genital mutilation, HIV, hepatitis and others
  • Support with applications and visits to the authorities
  • Connecting pregnant women with doctors and maternity clinics
  • Contraception

Family midwife counselling services for the child:

  • Breastfeeding and nutrition
  • Weight control
  • Assessment of growth and development
  • Nursing
  • Sleeping
  • Preventive check-ups and vaccinations
  • Accident prevention
  • Strengthening the mother/parent-child bond
  • Organising further help, such as early help

If you have any questions or would like to make an appointment, please give us a call or send us an e-mail.

Landeshauptstadt München

Gesundheitsreferat
SG Gesundheitsvorsorge für Menschen in Unterkünften

Phone number

Consultation hours

  • Mon 09:00 - 12:00 (An answering machine is available outside office hours.)
  • Tue 09:00 - 12:00 (An answering machine is available outside office hours.)
  • Wed 09:00 - 12:00 (An answering machine is available outside office hours.)
  • Thu 09:00 - 12:00 (An answering machine is available outside office hours.)
  • Fri Closed
    (Mariä Himmelfahrt: Office hours may vary)
  • Sat Closed
  • Sun Closed

Postal address

Landeshauptstadt München
Gesundheitsreferat
SG Gesundheitsvorsorge für Menschen in Unterkünften

Bayerstraße 28a
80335 München

Fax: +49 89 233-12747335

Address

Bayerstraße 28a
80335 München

no party traffic. Outreach service.

Related services

Promotion of self-help in the social sector

If you offer a self-help group or self-organised initiative, you can apply for grants for material and personnel costs for the first eight years.

Healthcare for people in accommodation

In shared accommodation, we offer health counselling by medical professionals.