Social counselling / Integration
Many nongovernmental organisations offer social counselling in the different cantons. You can ask for assistance e.g. by contacting the organisations listed below:
- Social counselling as well as further services and projects to foster integration, equal opportunities and participation of asylum seekers and refugees by Caritas
- Social counselling and further services to support the socially disadvantaged by HEKS
- Counselling and further services to support integration and access to work by SAH
Persons in detention
- Counselling services for persons in detention and their families by the association humanrights.ch
Persons without a residence permit
- Legal and social counselling for persons living and working in Switzerland without a residence permit by the sans-papier counselling offices
Women and girls / Sexual and gender-based violence
- Counselling and support for women and girls by FIZ Advocacy and Support for Migrant Women and Victims of Trafficking
- Counselling for survivors of gender-based violence by Terre des Femmes Switzerland.
Forced marriage
- Counselling for persons threatened with forced marriage, or in a forced marriage by Zwangsheirat.ch.
LGBTIQ+
- Counselling and referral services for LGBTI asylum-seekers by Queeramnesty Switzerland
- Legal counselling for trans people by Transgender Network Switzerland (TGNS)
Human trafficking
- Counselling and support for victims of human trafficking by FIZ Advocacy and Support for Migrant Women and Victims of Trafficking
- Counselling and support for victims of human trafficking by Astrée
Children and Families
- Individual assistance and counselling, e.g. concerning child protection and family tracing by the International Social Service Switzerland
- Family tracing service of the Swiss Red Cross
- Counselling and referral services to partner organizations by The Alliance for the Rights of Migrant Children (ADEM)