German Association for Rehabilitation
The German Association for Rehabilitation (DVfR) is an interdisciplinary forum for rehabilitation in which experts from institutions and associations for rehabilitation and participation as well as people with disabilities can exchange ideas as "experts in their own right". The association based in Heidelberg is recognized as a non-profit association . The DVfR is funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on the basis of a resolution by the German Bundestag .
The aim of the association is to develop unification processes and to find consensus among the various institutions and associations. The division into member groups, each representing institutions and people with different tasks, responsibilities and interests in the rehabilitation area, enables all groups to be equally involved and represented accordingly on the main board of the DVfR.
The association was founded on April 14, 1909 as the "German Association for Cripple Welfare" in Berlin. The Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Olaf Scholz, took over the patronage of the 100th anniversary of the association in April 2009 .
tasks and goals
The association organizes the dialogue between all social forces for the further development of rehabilitation in Germany with the aim of promoting self-determination and participation of people with disabilities and chronic diseases through comprehensive and individual rehabilitation . At the same time, it promotes the recognition and implementation of comprehensive rehabilitation as a fundamental part of health and social care.
The DVfR takes on functions in the field of medical, school, professional and social rehabilitation:
- Balance of interests between the groups involved in rehabilitation
- Constructive proposed solutions for the design of appropriate opportunities for participation
- Critical monitoring of developments in the rehabilitation area from the point of view of those affected
The goals of the association are:
- Empowerment as a result of rehabilitation that should always be striven for
- Promoting disability prevention
- Promotion of innovative forms of social benefits in rehabilitation
- Provision of information
- Continuous offer of an integrative, professional platform for interdisciplinary exchange
- critical monitoring of the implementation and application of laws that affect people with disabilities in a special way
- Help shape disability policy
- Integration of national and international developments
Examples of operational work are:
- The DVfR organizes workshops , conferences and congresses on current topics .
- Interdisciplinary working committees develop suggestions and opinions on current problems in rehabilitation.
- At national and international level, the DVfR advocates the promotion of scientific dialogue and the exchange of practical experiences.
- Through diverse public relations work , the DVfR draws attention to the concerns of people with disabilities and the role of rehabilitation in the modern welfare state.
Main topics
- Operational integration management (BEM)
- Aid supply
- International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
- Mobile rehabilitation
- UN Disability Rights Convention
Board of Directors and Management
Main board
The main board represents in its composition the entirety and complexity of the members. According to the articles of association, it consists of 32 members, with two deputies being elected for each member. The division of the board seats to the member groups is based on the following key:
composition
- Member group A (social service providers): 8 seats on the main board
- Member group B (disability associations): 8 seats on the main board
- Member group C (responsible for facilities for the disabled): 8 seats on the main board
- Member group D (people from the rehabilitation sector): 8 seats on the main board
- Member group E (professional and professional associations for rehabilitation): 8 seats on the main board
Executive board
The executive board consists of seven people and is elected every four years from among the main board. In the 2016 to 2020 term of office, the following persons belong to the Executive Board:
- Matthias Schmidt-Ohlemann , Chairman, Ltd. Doctor, Kreuznach Diakonie , Bethesda Rehabilitation Center, Bad Kreuznach
- Arnd Longrée, 1st Vice Chairman, German Association of Occupational Therapists e. V., Karlsbad
- Marion Rink, 2nd deputy chairwoman, board member, Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Selbsthilfe e. V., Düsseldorf
- Gerd Kukla, Secretary, National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, Berlin
- Bernhard Greitemann, Deputy Secretary, Chief Physician, Medical Director, Clinic Münsterland, Bad Rothenfelde
- Rolf Buschmann-Steinhage, Treasurer, Head of the Rehabilitation Sciences Division, German Federal Pension Insurance, Social Medicine and Rehabilitation Division, Berlin
- Walter Krug, Deputy Treasurer, General Management BBW St. Franziskus Abensberg, Deputy. Board member of the Federal Working Group of Vocational Training Centers, Berlin
Manager
- Sylvia Kurth
Members
Members are associations for the disabled and self-help organizations, specialist rehabilitation associations, rehabilitation institutions and services, associations of rehabilitation providers and - as individuals - experts from many areas of health and social services and research. International issues
The DVfR and the Federal Association for Rehabilitation (BAR), Frankfurt, jointly represent the interests of Germany in the World Rehabilitation International Association (RI) , New York / USA. There are also bilateral cooperation relationships with individual states, B. with Finland and the Netherlands.
Associations of social service providers
The associations of the providers of social services belong to member group A:
- General accident insurance company
- District Middle Franconia -Social Department-
- District of Upper Bavaria
- Federal agency for work
- German Statutory Accident Insurance e. V.
- German Federal Pension Insurance
- German District Association
- German Association of Cities
- National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds
- Municipal Association for Youth and Social Affairs Baden-Württemberg
- Regional Association of Rhineland - Department 7
- Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
- Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family
- City of Heidelberg - Office for Social Affairs and Seniors
Rehabilitation services and facilities or their providers
The rehabilitation services and facilities or their providers belong to member group B of the DVfR.
- ARZ-Ambulantes Rehabilitationzentrum Nürnberg gGmbH
- adViva GmbH
- Academy for vocational education and training Schweiger & Schmitt GmbH
- Annedore Leber Vocational Training Center Berlin
- Berlin Workshops for the Disabled GmbH (BWB)
- Professional training centers of the Education and Crafts Foundation (BTZ) gGmbH
- Bad Wildbad professional development agency
- Vocational Promotion Agency Berlin-Brandenburg e. V.
- Frankfurt am Main vocational promotion agency
- Vocational Promotion Agency Hamburg GmbH
- Berufsförderungswerk Hamm GmbH
- Job Promotion Agency Munich gGmbH
- Vocational Promotion Agency Nürnberg gGmbH
- Vocational Promotion Agency Stralsund GmbH
- Vocational Promotion Agency Würzburg gGmbH
- BHH Sozialkontor gGmbH
- BTZ Vocational Training Cologne GmbH
- CJD Vocational Promotion Agency Koblenz
- CJD Homburg / Saar gGmbH
- Concept: Rehabilitation GmbH
- date up health care GmbH
- Delme-Werkstätten gGmbH
- German Study Institute for the Blind (blista) e. V.
- Diakonie Stetten e. V.
- DIAKOVERE Annastift Life and Learning gGmbH
- Elisabeth Foundation of the DRK Birkenfeld
- Evangelische Heimstiftung GmbH - Stephanuswerk Isny
- Evangelical Foundation Alsterdorf
- Evangelical Foundation Volmarstein
- Fachklinik Feldberg GmbH - Klinik am Haussee
- Further Education Academy for Business (FAW) gGmbH
- Prince Donnersmarck Foundation in Berlin
- Society for the Promotion of Professional and Social Integration gGmbH
- Hegau-Jugendwerk Gailingen GmbH, neurological hospital and rehabilitation center
- HELIOS Klinik Geesthacht / specialist clinic for neurology and neurological rehabilitation center for children, adolescents and young adults
- iba berlin - Individual job finding and work trials
- ICP Group Munich - Integration Center for Cerebral Palsy
- IHR Rehabilitation Service GmbH
- INN-tegrativ gGmbH
- Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH
- Catholic youth welfare of the Diocese of Augsburg e. V.
- Catholic youth welfare of the Diocese of Regensburg e. V.
- Klinik Bavaria Freyung GmbH & Co. KG
- Bavaria Kreischa Clinic
- Klinik Bavaria Zscheckwitz gGmbH
- Clinics Schmieder (Foundation & Co.) KG
- Lichtenau e. V. - Orthopedic Clinic and Rehabilitation Center of Diakonie
- m & i clinic group Enzensberg
- Neurological Rehabilitation Center Godeshöhe e. V.
- Otto Bock HealthCare Germany GmbH
- RC reweca gGmbH
- Rehabilitation & Profession gGmbH
- Rehabilitation Krefeld - rk - GmbH
- rehacare GmbH
- REHAintegra
- RehaNova Cologne GmbH
- reIntegro - Mobile social and professional rehabilitation
- ReIntra GmbH, medical and professional advice and integration service
- Rummelsberger Services for People with Disabilities gGmbH
- SRH Vocational Rehabilitation gGmbH - Heidelberg Vocational Promotion Agency
- Friedehorst gGmbH professional development agency
- Rehabilitation center Bethesda of the Kreuznacher Diakonie
- Pfennigparade Foundation in Munich
- Heidelberg University Hospital - Orthopedic University Hospital Foundation
- v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel
- Association Oberlinhaus
- Physical Therapy Center
Associations of people with disabilities and self-help associations
The associations of people with disabilities and self-help associations belong to member group C of the DVfR.
- BDH Federal Association for Rehabilitation
- Federal working group self-help
- Federal Association for the Physically Disabled and Multiple Disabilities V.
- Federal association for people with arm or leg amputation eV
- Federal association self-help physically disabled e. V.
- Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe for people with intellectual disabilities e. V.
- German Society of the Hearing Impaired - Self-Help and Professional Associations e. V.
- German Rheuma-Liga Bundesverband e. V.
- German Disabled Sports Association e. V.
- German Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- German Wheelchair Sports Association
- Patients in a vegetative state e. V.
- Craniocerebral patients in need e. V.
- SoVD Social Association Germany
- Social Association VdK Germany e. V.
- Special Olympics Germany e. V.
Interested individuals, rehabilitation experts
Interested individuals and rehabilitation experts belong to member group D of the DVfR.
Professional and specialist rehabilitation organizations
The professional and specialist organizations of rehabilitation belong to member group E of the DVfR.
- AWO Bundesverband eV
- Professional Association of Doctors for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine eV
- Federal Working Group on Outpatient Vocational Rehabilitation (BAG abR) eV
- Federal Working Group for Advice Centers for Communication Aid e. V.
- Federal Association of Professional Training Centers eV
- Federal Association of Vocational Training Centers (BAG BBW) eV
- Federal Working Group of Medical-Professional Rehabilitation Institutions eV Phase II
- Federal Working Group for Supported Employment eV - BAG UB
- Federal Working Group on Mobile Rehabilitation
- Federal Association for the Rehabilitation of Mentally Ill People eV
- Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft sheltered workshops e. V.
- Federal working group for professional development agencies
- Federal college for orthopedic technology
- Federal Association of Company Social Work e. V.
- Federal Association for Orthopedic Technology
- Federal Association of Outpatient Medical Rehabilitation Centers V.
- Federal Association of Outpatient-Partly Inpatient Neurorehabilitation e. V.
- Bundesverband Deutscher Berufsförderungswerke eV
- Federal Association of German Private Clinics (BDPK)
- Federal Association for Burn Injured eV
- Federal Association of Protestant Disability Aid eV (BeB)
- Federal Association of Geriatrics V.
- Federal Association of Conductive Promotion according to Petö eV
- Bundesverband Rehabilitationssport / RehaSport Deutschland eV
- Caritas Disability Aid and Psychiatry e. V.
- German Professional Association for Nursing Professions V. - Federal Association
- DEGEMED - German Society for Medical Rehabilitation e. V.
- German Society for Epileptology V.
- German Society for Neurorehabilitation eV
- German Society of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery e. V. (DGOOC)
- German Society for Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine eV
- German Society for Language Special Education e. V.
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care V. (DVSG)
- German Federal Association for Speech Therapy (dbl)
- German Association of Occupational Therapists V. (DVE)
- German Association for Physiotherapy - Central Association of Physiotherapists / Physiotherapists (ZVK) e. V.
- German Board of Trustees for Therapeutic Riding e. V. (DKThR)
- FiBS eV research institute for inclusion through exercise and sport
- Institute for Social Research and Social Economy V.
- International Center for Socio-Legal Studies - SOCLES
- International support group for children and youth rehabilitation rehaKIND eV
- IQPR - Institute for Quality Assurance in Prevention and Rehabilitation at the German Sport University
- Quality Association Aids e. V.
- SHV brain forum V.
- Oskar-Helene-Heim Foundation
- Association of Special Education V.
- Association of North German Rehabilitation Clinics
Personalities of the DVfR
- Konrad Biesalski (1868–1930), German orthopedist and university professor, he is considered to be the founder of modern care for the disabled
- Eduard Dietrich (1860–1947), doctor and Prussian medical officer
- Georg Hohmann (1880–1970), German surgeon and orthopedist
- Kurt-Alphons Jochheim (1921–2013), chairman from 1967 to 1992 and professor for rehabilitation at the German Sport University Cologne (DSH)
- Kurt Lindemann (1901–1966), orthopedist and professor in Heidelberg
- Hans Würtz (1875–1958), influential protagonist pedagogy for the physically handicapped during the Weimar Republic
Honorary Members:
- Karlheinz Siek, Potsdam (since 1999)
- Günter Tiedt, Bochum (since 2002)
- Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Pape, Potsdam (since 2012)
- Hans-Martin Schian (since 2016)
- Ferdinand Schliehe (since 2018)
- K.-Dieter Voß (since 2019)
Honorary Chairman:
- Wolfgang Blumenthal, Geesthacht (since 2004)
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Blumenthal, Ferdinand Schliehe (Hrsg.): Participation as a goal of rehabilitation. 100 years of cooperation in the German Association for Rehabilitation eV, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-9800900-2-5 .
Web links
- Official website of the DVfR
- History of the DVfR
- Reception for the 100th anniversary of the DVfR
- Discussion forum on rehabilitation and participation law sponsored by the DVfR