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Other advisory services

Counselling and support for asylum seekers, recognised refugees and migrants

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Arcobaleno

Social and cultural integration of foreigners in Upper Austria

Asylum in need

It offers counselling and support for asylum seekers and persons entitled to asylum (recognised refugees) in legal and social matters.

Supports organisations and committed individuals in advising migrants and refugees and provides addresses of asylum authorities at federal and state level as well as links to organisations in the field of asylum.

Counselling centre for migrants

Provides counselling and support for foreign workers and their family members as well as vocational and educational counselling for asylum seekers (recognised refugees).

Caritas Austria – Help for refugees

Accommodation and care, counselling and representation as well as help with the integration of refugees

Caritas Austria – Help for migrants

Assistance in finding work and housing, educational measures, counselling for migrants etc.

Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna – Asylum and Integration

Asylum centre, centre for migrants, social services at the airport, educational and legal advice, psychosocial service centre (trauma treatment), etc.

Deserter and refugee counselling Vienna

Advice and support for refugees, especially in matters of asylum and residence law.

Diakonie Refugee Service

Counselling, care, accommodation, (initial) training and medical and psychotherapeutic treatment of asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and Austrians

FIBEL – Women’s Initiative Bicultural Marriages and Living Communities

Provides information and advice on legal problems (residence, asylum, work permits, family law, etc.) as well as social and cultural issues.

Helping Hands

Lawyers offer free advice on immigration law and integration, as well as on problems with racism.

Hemayat

Provides interpretation-supported medical, psychological and psychotherapeutic care for torture victims and people with war trauma from Vienna and the surrounding area.

I am Refugee – Association for the Gradual Integration of Refugees

Provides information about the step-by-step integration process and a structured overview of the respective integration offerings. The website is available in German, Dari, Farsi, Arabic and English.

Interface Vienna

Promotes the integration of children, young people and adults with a migration background in society as a whole through educational, information and counselling measures.

NIPE – Network for Intercultural Psychotherapy after Extreme Traumatisation

NIPE is a network of 10 institutions offering psychotherapy for refugees, especially for severely traumatised adults and children.

OMEGA – Transcultural Centre for Mental and Physical Health and Integration

The association OMEGA, based in Graz, offers advice and support in various languages. The services are aimed, for example, at asylum seekers, those entitled to asylum, people with subsidiary protection, people without legal residence permits, etc.

Austrian Integration Fund

The Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) is a fund of the Republic of Austria and a partner of the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and the Exterior as well as numerous responsible persons in the field of integration and migration in Austria. It advises refugees and immigrants in their integration process in all nine provincial capitals as well as at numerous mobile counselling centres throughout Austria. In its activities, the ÖIF addresses asylum seekers, persons granted subsidiary protection and third-country nationals, people with a migration background, institutions, organisations and multipliers in the integration, social and educational sectors and Austrian society. The ÖIF’s range of advisory services is extensive and includes, in particular, language promotion and the transmission of values.

Austrian Red Cross – Migration and Tracing Service

Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants receive assistance and support measures, e.g. help with family reunification, etc.

Legal advice platform

Supports the independent legal advice team of the Diakonie Flüchtlingsdienst in Tirol and conducts public relations work and awareness raising in the field of asylum and migration.

SOS Human Rights Austria

Offers support and assistance to refugees and projects in the field of anti-discrimination and human rights education. The association is mainly active in Upper Austria.

SOS Mitmensch Burgenland

Legal advice and social support for refugees

Ute Bock refugee project

Counselling and support for asylum seekers living in Vienna and, in many cases, homeless asylum seekers and other refugees in need of help

association people.life

Mainly active in the areas of integration/education/language, asylum, women’s work, psychological support and youth work; provision of accommodation for unaccompanied minor refugees, women’s specific accommodation and support for female asylum seekers, etc.