Stiftung Achtung!Kinderseele

Founded in 2009, Stiftung Achtung!Kinderseele is a foundation based in Hamburg, Germany working on mental health, children & youth, health +1 more.

Stiftung Achtung!Kinderseele is a German foundation based in Hamburg that promotes the mental health of children and young people. It works mainly through prevention, early recognition and public education, aiming to reduce stigma around psychological illness and to point families and young people towards help. Its work is carried out with volunteer child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychiatric specialist associations. Its programmes target kindergartens and their staff and parents, schools, and apprentices and their trainers, and include a kindergarten godparent scheme, a training programme for apprenticeship mentors, free e-learning for apprentices, and school advisory lectures. The foundation also publishes information material and a poster on children's rights, and offers resources for families affected by the war in Ukraine in German, Ukrainian and Russian. It does not provide individual case counselling or fund other organisations. The foundation was established in 2009 by specialist medical associations for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. It is recognised as charitable by the Hamburg tax office and is funded by donations.