Worker Samaritan Youth
The Arbeiter-Samariter-Jugend (ASJ) is the children and youth association of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund . It is open to membership and collaboration for all young people. Its activities and positions are geared towards the needs and interests of young people.
The Arbeiter-Samariter-Jugend in Germany
Democratic construction
The ASJ is democratically structured at every organizational level. A general assembly, or a delegate assembly or conference at higher organizational levels, elects a board of directors and a control commission for a period specified in the statutes. This ensures that children and young people in the ASJ have creative options and are involved in all major decisions directly or indirectly via the principle of representation ( not principle of delegation ).
Fields of work
The ASJ is active in the following fields of youth work : open youth work, youth group work, youth project work, youth association work, educational work and international youth work.
Concrete activities
Local or regional level:
- The ASJ offers numerous children and youth groups in many places in Germany.
- First aid training in almost all groups of children and young people.
Federal level: The offers at the federal level are a supplement or a service for the state levels and the local or regional level.
- Further training seminars in the field of extracurricular youth education.
- With the federal youth competition every two years, a nationwide performance competition in which the ability in first aid, culture and general knowledge is queried. To participate, a qualification in the competitions at the respective municipal and state levels is a prerequisite.
- every two years the “children's days”. This is a nationwide adventure weekend for the participants in ASJ children's groups. The children's days are openly advertised within the ASJ.
- The ASJ does international youth work. Individual ASJ groups have partner groups abroad. It cooperates with the youth organizations of the member associations of Samaritan International .
- The ASJ named thematic focus areas, campaigns. The current campaign is called "First Aid for Our Environment". The content is about pollution and ways to avoid it. The ASJ uses the future workshop method for creative preparation of actions within campaigns .
Goals of the work of the ASJ
Through its work, the ASJ wants to promote social engagement, community, solidarity, tolerance and equality for both sexes. It is also important for the ASJ to support children and young people in their development to become independent personalities.
Volunteering
The ASJ works almost exclusively on a voluntary basis.
Political orientation
The ASJ is neither confessional nor politically bound. The political commitment of the ASJ is primarily aimed at representing the interests of children and young people. This she takes z. B. true as a full member of the German Federal Youth Association . As part of its thematic focus of work, called campaigns, the ASJ focuses on individual social problems. To this end, the ASJ prepares political position papers.
Cooperations with other youth associations
In addition to its membership in the German Federal Youth Association , the ASJ works with other youth associations. That's the one associations with a historical background in the workers' youth movement: the DGB Youth, the youth of the AWO , the Naturfreundejugend Germany , the German Schreberjugend which SJD-Die Falken and solos youth . On the other hand, there are the youth organizations of the helping associations: the DLRG youth , the German Youth Red Cross , the Johanniter youth , the youth fire brigade , the Maltese youth , the THW youth .
Federal publications
- The member magazine “ASJ am Puls” appears three times a year.
- The ASJ seminar calendar appears once a year.
- The ASJ offers its branches an image flyer for advertising purposes.
- Further publications are created irregularly, depending on the focus of work or special occasions.
The Samaritan Youth in Austria
All members of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Austria under the age of 18 are automatically also members of the Samaritan Youth . Of these, around 600 children across Austria are assigned to a youth group that is active on a local or regional level. The federal states most active in the youth work of the organization are Vienna and Lower Austria .
- The aim of the youth of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Austria [...] is to promote the development of children and young people into self-confident, independent and responsible personalities by strengthening social engagement, community and lived solidarity and tolerance. The advocacy of a free, solidary, just and prejudice-free society is an important part of the self-image of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Austria and has a special value in its youth work. The youth work of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Austria is based on the idea of democracy and is neither confessional nor party-political. The work is done on a voluntary basis.
Democratic construction
At group level: The youth officer of a local ASBÖ group is elected every four years by the youth conference. The youth conference corresponds to the general group assembly at youth level, all members of the ASBÖ group concerned between 6 and 18 years of age are entitled to vote. The elected youth officer must be confirmed by the group's board of directors .
At the state level: The state youth officer is elected every five years by the state youth conference according to the delegation principle . In some federal states with few members (e.g. Carinthia with only one active youth group) there is no state youth department.
At the federal level: The federal youth officer is elected every five years by the state youth conference according to the delegation principle . The Federal Youth Officer is currently Simeon Alexander Egger from Tyrol.
Concrete activities
In the youth groups, the following measures are taken for youth work:
- First aid training for members with a special focus on self-protection, health care and accident prevention.
- Training of the social skills of the members with regard to civil courage , helpfulness and social commitment.
- Community-building activities such as hiking days, tent camps, excursions and workshops.
- Cooperation with other organizations, such as B. the fire brigade youth .
- Participation in regional, national and international events on the topic.
The Federal Youth Department and the State Youth Department offer further activities:
- Seminars, workshops and training for youth leaders and group leaders .
- First aid competitions for children and young people
- Federal youth competition: takes place every second year at Whitsun.
- Lower Austrian state youth competition: takes place annually.
- National and international youth encounters
- Social projects, the most noteworthy here is the Santa Claus procession .
- Project work on various social and health-related topics.
Web links
- www.asj.de ASJ Germany
- www.asj.at ASJ Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guideline for ASBÖ Youth, Version 2005 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
