Caritas Socialis
Caritas Socialis (CS) is a women's order .
Today the sister community runs nursing and care facilities for chronically ill, very old and terminally ill people as well as kindergartens, a dormitory for mothers and children and a social assistance and counseling service. The CS is best known for the CS Hospiz Rennweg and the specialization in the care of people with dementia and people with multiple sclerosis.
history
The community was founded on October 4, 1919 by Hildegard Burjan with the support of Prelate Ignaz Seipel in Vienna as a spiritual community of sisters with the aim of alleviating social hardship. This emerged from the "Social Aid" association established in 1918. The community was canonically established on June 10, 1936 and received papal recognition on February 2, 1960. Tackling the needs of the times at the root, combined with the courage to try something new - that is what Hildegard Burjan was all about, that is what Caritas Socialis is still about today. What is meant is: structural help and not just acute help. In order to secure the long-term existence of the institutions independently of the sister community, a non-profit private foundation was established with foresight: In 2002 the sister community established the Caritas Socialis non-profit private foundation and brought in the institutions. The facilities are now divided into facilities that are organized in GmbHs, all of which were incorporated into the Caritas Socialis non-profit private foundation on January 1, 2002.
The sole purpose of the private foundation is to support and ensure the long-term continued existence of Caritas Socialis facilities: for example the CS Hospiz Rennweg, the CS care centers, the multiple sclerosis and dementia care facilities (day centers, inpatient facilities), the CS residential home for mothers and child, kindergartens as well as developing new projects.
Spiritual sisters and secular employees, some of them volunteer, work in the CS Caritas Socialis. In part, the hospice support for people with dementia and the work of the CS Hospiz Rennweg are made possible by donors. Hildegard Burjan was beatified on January 29, 2012 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .
In 2019 Caritas Socialis celebrates its 100th anniversary. The motto of the anniversary year “100 years of CS” Menschen.leben.starkken expresses the concern of Caritas Socialis to meet and strengthen people in their vulnerability.
CS sister community
Today CS sisters live and work in Austria , Germany , South Tyrol , Hungary and Brazil . Some sisters wear a dark blue dress and a white cross on a blue background with the letters “CS” as a badge. The extraordinary general assembly in 1971 reflected on Hildegard Burjan's idea not to introduce any religious clothing. Elderly sisters who had been wearing the blue religious dress for a long time were given the option to wear civil or religious clothes. Newly joining sisters receive a cross with the letters CS as a common symbol when they are accepted into the second probationary period.
After the foundation, the care for the elderly, the protection of girls, the reconstruction of the station mission and the care for those at risk were in the foreground. At the "St. Elisabeth table" people received warm meals, the "sick bed" brought food into the house for sick people and single people. The focus was on family and elderly care, hospice work , youth work, life and social counseling, protection for unborn life and support for single mothers. Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS directed the Caritas educational institution for social professions in Vienna until 1998. Then she devoted herself to the development and expansion of the hospice movement in Austria and was the first president of the umbrella organization Hospice Austria.
On June 21, 1998, Pope John Paul II visited the Rennweg hospice of the CS ( 3rd district of Vienna ) and gave a speech to all who live and work in the world of disease and suffering .
activities
In the 21st century, the community of sisters concentrates its help at the beginning and end of life with special facilities for children and single mothers as well as for people with Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis and for people with incurable cancer. The community of sisters played a decisive role in spreading the concept of hospice and palliative care in Austria in the 1980s. Dealing with spirituality and value management is also a concern of the CS sisters.
All facilities are run by a non-profit private foundation in which around 850 employees, 580 volunteers, 450 interns and 80 help (as of 2018).
Specializations
Alzheimer's and dementia care
As part of the care and support network, specialized Alzheimer's / dementia care offers
- partly in the CS day centers for seniors and
- around the clock in the specialized long-term care facilities (living areas, CS shared apartment for people with dementia)
to be entitled to.
Multiple Sclerosis Care
The multiple sclerosis day center and the neurological long-term ward are part of CS Rennweg. The MS day center is unique in Europe and offers opportunities to combine therapy and community experience during the day. The long-term neurological ward and the care at home work closely with the day center and thus create an optimal transfer between the various members of the CS care network.
Hospice culture and maeutics
The most famous Caritas Socialis facility is the CS Hospiz Rennweg. A palliative ward , the mobile palliative team, the volunteer hospice team, a counseling center and Der Rote Anker are all managed under one roof . Together they enable terminally ill people and their relatives to enjoy quality of life until the end.
Facilities
- CS advisory service for care and dementia
- CS care at home
- CS day centers for seniors
- CS day centers for people with dementia / CS Alzheimer's day centers
- Multiple sclerosis day center
- Living areas for inpatient long-term care
- Living areas for people with dementia in inpatient long-term care
- neurological long-term care unit (MS multiple sclerosis)
- Living with CS (small, manageable apartments, suitable for senior citizens, in the immediate vicinity of CS Pramergasse)
- CS Hospice Rennweg
- Social pastoral services
- CS kindergartens
- CS advisory service
- CS House for Mother and Child (MUKI)
- Open lunch
Awards
- June 1998: Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS: Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (1952)
- June 2003: Diary poster campaign of the CS-Hospiz Rennweg Health Prize of the City of Vienna
- June 2003: The initiative "Actions instead of words" and the alpha women's academy awarded the 2003 prize for the most women and family-friendly Viennese company to Caritas Socialis
- Feb. 2004: CS care and social centers: women- and family-friendly Viennese companies 2003
- Nov. 2004: Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS received the Cardinal König Prize
- Sept. 2006: Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS received the Felix Ermacora Human Rights Prize
- March 2008: Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS received the Liese-Prokop-Prize for special commitment to fellow human beings
- April 2008: Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS received the Hildegard Burjan Prize of Honor from the CS Caritas Socialis non-profit private foundation
- Nov. 2008: Dormitory for people with dementia: Austrian Nursing Prize (2nd place)
- Dec. 2008: Concept of CS flat-sharing communities for people with dementia: City of Vienna health award (1st place in the health promotion category)
- Feb. 2009: "Empty sheet" advertisement: ADGAR advertisement of the year 2008, 1st place in the social advertising category
- May 2009: Sr. Hildegard Teuschl CS, for her life's work: Lazarus Prize
- Nov. 2010: The Red Anchor: 3rd place in the Health Prize of the City of Vienna
- July 2010:
- Diary poster CS Hospice Rennweg: Bronze Venus
- TV commercial CS Hospiz Rennweg "God: Creativ Club Austria
- Nov. 2011: Project work on ethical residents' discussion: 1st place Austrian geriatric care award Teleios 2011
- Dec. 2011: Advice center of the CS Hospiz Rennweg: 3rd place at the Health Prize of the City of Vienna 2011 for
literature
- Caritas Socialis. Messages from the sisterhood to their friends . Periodical published in Vienna.
- Future gifts. Information newspaper of the Caritas Socialis non-profit private foundation. Periodical published in Vienna.
- HospizInform information sheet from the CS Hospice Rennweg. Periodical published in Vienna.
- Gert Schlegel (ed.): We can help. An illustrated book about the sisterhood Caritas Socialis . Vienna 1963
- Ingeborg Schödl (ed.): Hope has a name. Hildegard Burjan and Caritas Socialis . Tyrolia, Innsbruck-Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7022-1980-3
- Ingeborg Schödl (ed.): Hildegard Burjan: Woman between politics and church . DOM, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 2008
- Gisbert Greshake (ed.): Blessed are those who thirst for justice. Hildegard Burjan: Life - Work - Spirituality . Tyrolia 2008
- Eduard Spörk, Andreas Heller (ed.): The hospice idea has many mothers and fathers. The history of the hospice movement in Austria and the hospice work of Caritas Socialis. Tyrolia, Innsbruck Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3190-3
Web links
- Sister community Caritas Socialis
- Caritas Socialis aid organizations