Support for single-parent families

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

For details, please refer to the page of single-parent home adolescents and Connection Support Project.

At the ward office of 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 staff prepares employment support plan tailored to each person and supports job hunting activity in detail.
[Details] Guidance of employment consultation and support (PDF: 498KB)
[Inquiry] 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 taken) ) Will be paid. (There is an income limit.)

• Education and training benefit business for mother and child and father and son family independence support

Training and acquire qualifications that are effective for financial independence such as nurses for at least one year (including those with a curriculum of 6 months or more if training is started within 2021) If you are going to, we will provide higher vocational training promotion benefits and higher vocational training completion support benefits to reduce the burden of living. (There is an income limit.)

• Higher Vocational Training Benefit Business

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

• Yokohama City Single Parent Family High School Graduation Level Certification Test Pass Support Project (PDF: 233KB)

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

• Yokohama single-parent homes and other daily life support projects

For mother and child families, fatherless families and widows, we provide free legal consultation such as arrangements for childcare expenses by female lawyers. (3 to 4 times a month.) Reservation required)
[Details] Legal consultation (PDF: 549KB)
[Consultation Date] Please check 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 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 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (from Monday to Friday)
[Inquiry] Single parent support Yokohama (outside site) (Phone: 045-663-4188)

We provide learning support for children and consultation support for parents to households receiving Child Raising Allowance who raise first grade junior high school children.
Single-parent home adolescents and Connection Support Project

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

• Employment support projects such as mother and child families (published in the information on the above support project)
• Employment placement business
• We provide job information and job placements free of charge. Job postings can be viewed on the file and on the website installed at the support center.
• Free rental of job interview suit
• We rent employment interview suits (for women only) free of charge for employment support and employment placement business of support center.
• Holding various employment support seminars
• Information on the seminar currently being recruited is posted in "Recruiting Participant" above.
• Free legal consultation such as child support arrangements (listed in the above support project information)
• Holding child support seminar
• Information is currently being posted in the "Recruitment of Participants" above.
• Telephone consultation such as daily life and work (published in the information on the above support project)

Location:
〒231-0014
8th floor of Sun Building 33-24 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 a redemption exemption condition that lends funds necessary for renting a house.
[Target persons] (Those who meet all of the following requirements)
・Recipients of Child Raising Allowance or those with equal income levels
・Those who are willing to work toward independence after receiving the employment support plan
[Contents of Loan]
Loan amount ：Actual rent expenses for housing in which you live in (up to 40,000 yen per month)
Loan period: Up to 12 months
[Exemption of redemption]
・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 where higher income is expected than when applying for a 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 first consultation and employment support plan creation:　Single parent support Yokohama (outside site)
　Contact: 045-227-6337
・Loan application procedure Accepted:　Yokohama-shi Japan National Council of Social Welfare　　※The Japan National Council of Social Welfare webpage is currently being prepared. 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 family and fatherless family.
To the page of Yokohama Mother and Child Widow Welfare Fund

To the page of Yokohama City Single Parent Family Independence Support Plan

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

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

Children's Family Agency web page (outside site)
Mother and child, father and son and widow welfare law (outside site)
Mother and child, father and son and widow welfare law enforcement order (outside site)
Child care consultation support center web page (outside site)
Yokohama City Mother and Child Widow Welfare Association Web Page (outside site)