KOMPASS Advice Centre

Title

KOMPASS Advice Centre

Main organization

Partners/Supporters

The KOMPASS advisory center is part of the network of deradicalization of the Senate Administration for the Interior and Sports of the State of Berlin

Sponsor/Funds programme

The KOMPASS advisory center is financed by the " Landeskommission Berlin gegen Gewalt " in the context of the Berlin federal program "Radikalisierungsprävention".

Target

people affiliated to Islamic-motivated extremism

Objectives

The "Kompass Advice Centre" aims to dissuade people affiliated to Islamic-motivated extremism from their propensity for violence and to prevent departures to destinations in civil war-torn regions in Syria and Iraq. Similarly, work with so-called returnees is a component of the programme.

Operational context

BERATUNGSSTELLE Kompass, Bergmannstraße 5, Haus 2, 3. Stock, 10961 Berlin and in several prisons

Main activities

- Counseling, monitoring and specific training for young people who are at risk of radicalization in the run-up to punishment.
- Intervening measures in cases of emerging radicalization.
- Counseling and monitoring in the prison system.
- Exit Support: Consultation and dialogue activities with radicalized, exit volunteers and returnees (eg from Syria)
- Counseling for members of the family in the fight against religiously based extremism in order to reach the target group.

Duration

individual

Attachments

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