Support for single-parent families

In Yokohama City, we carry out support projects for single-parent families so that children can be brought up physically and mentally regardless of the environment in which they are placed.

For details, please refer to the page of Single Parent Family Adolescent / Connection Period Support Project.

At the ward office in your ward, we will provide employment consultation for mothers of mother and child families and fathers of fatherless families (in principle, Child Raising Allowance recipients). Employment support members create employment support plans tailored to each individual and support job hunting activities meticulously.
[Details] Guidance of employment consultation, support (PDF: 498KB)
[Inquiry] Ward Health and Welfare Center

If you take a designated education and training course to acquire the skills and qualifications necessary to get a suitable job, 60% of the cost will be paid to those who applied before attending the course (the upper limit varies depending on the course). ) Will be paid. (There is an income limit.)

• Mother and child, father and son family independence support education and training benefit business

To acquire qualifications that are effective for economic independence of nurses, etc. for at least one year (including those that are scheduled to have a curriculum of at least six months if training is started within 2021) If you are going to do so, we will provide higher vocational training promotion benefits and higher vocational training completion support benefits to reduce the burden on living. (There is an income limit.)

• Maternal and Child and Father's Family Higher Vocational Training Benefit Project

If a parent of a single-parent family who has not graduated from high school or elementary school studenｔ seeks to pass a high school graduation degree certification test in order to lead to employment or job change under better conditions, we will pay a portion of the expenses paid for the preparation course specified in advance. (There is an income limit.)

• Yokohama-shi single-parent home high school graduation degree certification examination pass support project (PDF: 233KB)

We dispatch family life support members to mother and child families, father and son families and widows who are temporarily in trouble with housework and childcare due to job hunting or family illness, etc. to help daily life.

• Daily life support projects for single-parent homes in Yokohama

For mother and child families, fatherless families and widows, we provide free legal counseling, such as arrangements for child support by female lawyers. (3 to 4 times a month. Reservation required)
[Details] Legal consultation (PDF: 549KB)
[Consultation date] Please confirm the schedule and reservation status with single-parent support Yokohama.
[Inquiry] Single-parent support Yokohama (outside site) (Phone: 045-663-4188)

We provide consultation on the daily life and work of mother and child families, fatherless families and widows. We also accept consultations from children in single-parent families.
Reception hours: From 9:00 am to 8:30 pm (Monday to Friday)
[Inquiry] Single-parent support Yokohama (outside site) (Phone: 045-663-4188)

For households receiving Child Raising Allowance who are raising first-year junior high school children, we provide learning support for children and consultation support for parents.
Single Parent Family Adolescent / Connection Period Support Project

In Yokohama City, with the aim of providing consistent employment support services, such as providing employment consultations that provide appropriate advice and providing employment information, according to the situation of individual families, occupational aptitude, employment experience, etc. We have established employment and independence support centers for mothers and children. "Single Parent Support Yokohama" is a nickname for the Employment and Independence Support Center for Yokohama City Maternal and Child Families.
(Business consignee: Yokohama City Mother and Child Widows Welfare Association)
[Implementation Project]

• Employment support projects for mother and child families (listed in the information on the above support projects)
• Employment placement business
• We provide job information and introduce employment for free. Job postings can be viewed on the files and websites installed at the support center.
• Free rental of job interview suit
• Employment interview suits (for women only) can be rented free of charge to users of the employment support and employment placement business at the support center.
• Holding various employment support seminars
• Information on seminars currently being recruited is available in "Recruiting Participants" above.
• Free legal consultation on child support arrangements (listed in the above support project information)
• Holding child support seminars
• Information is currently being posted in "Recruiting Participants" above.
• Telephone consultation on daily life and work (listed in the information on the above support project)

[Location]
〒231-0014
8th floor of Sun Building, 3-24 Tokiwacho, Naka-ku, Yokohama
Single-parent support Yokohama (outside site)
(Phone: 045-227-6337, Fax: 045-227-6338)

When working on employment, etc., we will implement a loan system with redemption exemption conditions that lend the funds necessary for renting a house.
[Target persons] (Those who meet all of the following requirements)
・Child Raising Allowance recipients or those with equal income levels
・Those who have received the formulation of a employment support plan and are actively working toward independence
[Details of Loan]
Lending amount ：Actual rent of the house you are moving in (up to 40,000 yen per month)
Loan period: Up to 12 months
[Repayment exemption]
・Currently, those who are not working will find employment within one year from the date of receiving the loan, or those who are working will change jobs that are expected to have higher income than when applying for the loan, and continue working for one year If you do, you will be eligible for redemption exemption.
[Contact information regarding the use of the system]
・Acceptance of the first consultation and employment support plan creation:　Single-parent support Yokohama (outside site)
　Contact: 045-227-6337
・Loan application procedure acceptance:　Yokohama-shi Japan National Council of Social Welfare　　※The website of the Japan National Council of Social Welfare is under preparation. If you have any questions, please contact us.
　Contact: 045-201-2219

Mother and child father and son widow welfare fund is loan system for independence support of mother and child families and father and son families.
To the page of Yokohama City Mother and Child Widow Welfare Fund

To page of Yokohama-shi single-parent home independence support plan

Parents in single-parent families often face difficulties in finding employment because they have to balance work that supports their livelihood and child care. In the recent severe economic and employment situation, employment has become even more severe.
We would like you to understand this situation and ask for your support for the employment of parents in single-parent families.
For example, we would like you to provide job postings that are designed to make it easier for parents of single-parent families to apply to the Hello Work (Mothers Hello Work) and the Employment and Independence Support Center in Yokohama City.
For employers who employ parents of single-parent families, there are the following subsidy systems, so please use them.
Specified job seeker employment development subsidy (outside site) ※For more information, please contact Hello Work (external site).

Under preparation
Press release document (concluded in February 2018) (PDF: 1,019KB)
Press release document (concluded in October 2018) (PDF: 789KB)

Child and Family Agency web page (outside site)
Mother and child and father and son and widow welfare law (outside site)
Mother and child and father and son and widow welfare law enforcement order (outside site)
Child support consultation support center web page (outside site)
Yokohama City Mother and Child Widows Welfare Association web page (outside site)