Federal Association of Catholic Institutions and Services for Educational Aids
The Federal Association of Catholic Institutions and Services of Educational Aids e. V. (BVkE) is a recognized, central professional association of the German Caritas Association . It is the network of Catholic institutions and services of educational assistance at the federal level. The association has around 550 members from all federal states who offer educational support in inpatient, semi-inpatient, outpatient and counseling areas.
The BVkE is currently chaired by Klaus Esser , managing director of Bethanien Children's Villages in Germany .
The aim of the association is to create needs-based, technically sound, professional offers of aids for education with and for young people and their families. The BVkE understands help for education as a pastoral service of the church, which is oriented towards the individual needs and resources of young people and their families. He advocates for the young people and their families with whom he works in his facilities and services.
history
At an educational conference organized by the Central Committee for "Catholic Charitable Educational Activities" from August 9th to 11th, 1909 in Limburg an der Lahn , the foundation of the "Association for Catholic, Charitable Educational Activities" (VkcE) as a subdivision of the German Caritas Association (DCV) was first established carried out and discussed a statute. The purpose of the association is described in the statutes of that time as follows: "The purpose of the association is the union of Catholic associations, institutions and individuals active in the field of charitable education, for the mutual exchange of their experiences, for mutual orientation and stimulation". Just one year after its foundation, the VkcE initiated the first training courses for women religious and educators of the member institutions and from 1912 published a “magazine for charitable education” (renamed “Jugendwohl” in 1920).
On November 8, 1922, the VkcE dissolved: On the one hand, it had only very modest financial and organizational resources, on the other hand, the professional representation of child and youth welfare was now integrated into the German Caritas Association. The “Association of Catholic Orphan and Welfare Educational Institutions in Germany”, which was founded in 1924 as a professional association of the German Caritas Association, was transformed into “Association of Catholics” in 1936. charitable education homes in Germany ”. After being banned from conferences and courses in 1942, he succeeded in organizing a federal assembly for the first time after the Second World War in 1949.
On February 25, 1959, the association was entered in the register of associations and in 1964 was renamed "Association of Catholic Institutions for Home and Curative Education eV". To the regret of many members, the publication of the association's magazine “Jugendwohl” had to be stopped in 1999. In September 1999 the Federal Association of Catholic Institutions and Services for Educational Aid (BVkE) was founded.
aims
The association pursues the following overarching goals:
- Development of needs-based and technically well-founded, professional offers of aids for education with and for young people and their families.
- Quality development in the educational aids
- Promotion of the professional and personal qualifications of employees
- Securing the political, legal and economic basis for educational assistance
- Bringing the professional position of educational assistance into the child and youth policy of the federal government and into the European level
literature
- Educational aids - investment in the future Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the BVkE, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, approx. 290 pages
- The neglected bearers of hope, contributions to educational aid, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, 416 pages
- Perspectives for child and youth welfare - from home education to the variety of educational assistance, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, 438 pages
- BVkE Info in the New Caritas [1]