The International Family Center (Internationales
Familienzentrum IFZ) is a registered society and a social
and educational provider in different parts of Frankfurt am
Main. We enable people from different cultures in our city
to come together through our advisory services in the fields
of education and integration.
The IFZ is a center created by a Catholic
organization. We are a cooperative member of the Caritas Association.
The IFZ is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Germany
for people of different origin, religion and culture.
Families, children, teenagers and a growing number of senior
citizens from all over the world have been coming to our center
for almost 30 years. Their questions and needs concern all
parts and stages of life. The IFZ provides help in coping
with conflicts, illnesses, family problems and difficult situations
in life. We provide advisory services in German and numerous
other languages according to our motto "We know what
to be foreign is like". Our employees are professionals
and know a great deal about interculturality either because
of their own foreign background or because of their intensive
work with migration issues. It is not only important to us
that the different departments of IFZ cooperate closely with
one another, but it is also one of our special features.
Our funding sources: the municipal authority, different town
authorities, the Social Ministries of Hessen, Bistum Limburg
and the Employment Agency in Frankfurt.
Our English web site does not cover
all of the departments in IFZ, but only those where we provide
advisory services in English. These are:
1. Migration and Family
2. Intercultural Educational and Family Guidance Office
3. International Psychosocial Center