CKG De Schommel

What CKG De Schommel does

CKG De Schommel is a Belgian non-profit (vereniging zonder winstoogmerk, vzw) family support organization headquartered in Averbode, with additional locations in Tienen and Leuven. It serves families with children from pregnancy through age 12, with crisis intervention services extended up to age 18, across the Diest-Leuven-Averbode-Tienen region of Flanders. The organization provides free family support, parenting counseling, crisis intervention, and day/night care services, with families typically referred through healthcare professionals, schools, social workers, and municipal authorities.

The organization's core digital product is Opla, an online parenting platform that packages exercises, videos, podcasts, a diary, and a stoefboek (a keepsake record) to extend service delivery beyond in-person counseling. The platform supplements the organization's in-person interventions by enabling self-directed parental engagement, though technical architecture details, integration capabilities, and usage metrics are not disclosed. The organization maintains a presence on Facebook and Instagram for outreach but does not appear to have a working API or third-party developer integration surface.

The business model is non-commercial: all services are provided free of charge to families, with the organization funded through government subsidies, donations, and sponsorships. There is no pricing model, no disclosed revenue, no paying customer base, and no headcount or operational scale figures publicly available. The organization operates under the Belgian social services regulatory framework as a recognized non-profit providing family support services.

Name

CKG De Schommel

Legal name

CKG De Schommel vzw

Website

https://ckgdeschommel.be

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CKG De Schommel is a Belgian non-profit family support organization serving families with children from pregnancy through age 12 (crisis services up to 18) across the Diest-Leuven-Averbode-Tienen region of Flanders, providing free parenting counseling, crisis intervention, and day/night care supplemented by the Opla online parenting platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Family Support Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (62411), Child Care Services (6244)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Family Coaching, Parent-Mediated & Home Visiting EI Services (EDACAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Family & Parent Support Services (Parent Coaching, Advocacy) (EDAJALAK)

Keywords

• Family support services
• Parenting counseling
• Online parenting platform
• Child welfare services
• Family coaching

Headquarters

HQ city

Averbode

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Free Family Support Services: All services are provided free of charge to families. The organization operates as a vzw (non-profit association) likely funded through government subsidies, donations, and sponsorships. Revenue is not generated directly from service fees but through institutional funding and charitable contributions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CKG De Schommel is a Belgian non-profit family support organization that provides free parenting support and counseling services to families with children from pregnancy through age 12 (and crisis support up to age 18). It combines in-person family coaching at three regional locations (Averbode, Tienen, Leuven) with the Opla online parenting platform that offers exercises, videos, podcasts, a digital diary, and a 'stoefboek' (bragging book), enabling integrated online self-service and face-to-face guidance.

Product overview

CKG De Schommel operates primarily as a family support organization, with its main digital product being the Opla online parenting platform. Opla serves as the core technology offering, providing a comprehensive suite of online resources including exercises, videos, podcasts, a diary, and a stoefboek feature. The platform is designed to support parents independently while enabling family counselors to integrate online support with in-person guidance through shared account access.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Opla: Online parenting platform developed to support parents with parenting challenges, offering exercises, videos, podcasts, a diary feature, and the 'stoefboek' (bragging book) resource.

Products and services

• Opla Online Parenting Platform

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Opla Platform Users (Families)coreOthersFamilies register with De Schommel and automatically receive a free Opla account. Their assigned coach gains access to monitor their progress, enabling a combination of online self-service and in-person coaching.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• 24Baby: Online Dutch-language parenting platform offering articles, tools, and community for parents from pregnancy through childhood. Comparable as a digital-first parenting resource that competes for the same audience's attention and engagement that Opla targets.
• Ouders van Nu: Established Dutch parenting media brand with online content, community forums, and digital tools for parents from pregnancy onward. Comparable as a Dutch-language digital parenting platform with overlapping content categories (exercises, podcasts, video) that Opla also delivers.

Others

• Awel: Belgian helpline and chat service where children, youth, and parents can discuss concerns anonymously. Adjacent rather than directly competing, but operates in the same family/child well-being ecosystem and shares referral pathways.

Regional players

• JAC (Jongeren Advies Centrum): Flemish youth advice centers providing free counseling to young people and parents on family, school, and well-being issues. Comparable as a free, regional, publicly-supported family/youth support network with overlapping parenting-support mandate.
• Child Focus: Belgian foundation focused on child safety, missing children, and online child protection. Comparable as a Belgian child-welfare organization serving overlapping families and working in similar referral and policy networks across Belgium.

Broad incumbents

• CAW (Centrum Algemeen Welzijnswerk): Flemish network of welfare centers offering broad psychosocial support including family difficulties, parenting questions, and crisis intervention. Comparable as a larger, established welfare provider with overlapping family-coaching services across Flanders.

Direct peers

• Opgroeien (formerly Kind & Gezin): Flemish government agency that supports children, young people, and families from pregnancy through adulthood with preventive care, parenting guidance, and child/family support. Directly comparable as the dominant public provider of family-support services in the same regions De Schommel serves.
• CKG De Kering: Another Flemish CKG (Centrum voor Kinder- en Gezinsondersteuning) organization providing intensive family support, day/night care, and parenting coaching. Closely comparable in service model, mission, and target population within the same Flemish CKG ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ckgdeschommel
• Instagraminstagram.com/deschommel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ckg-de-schommel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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