Fritz Felsenstein House
The Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus (FFH) is a private, non-profit organization that sees itself as a competence center for people with physical or multiple disabilities and their relatives.
With its offers, it ensures that people with physical or multiple disabilities can plan and realize their individually appropriate balance of care, participation and self-serving full life.
The Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus is based in Königsbrunn and is listed in the register of associations at the Augsburg District Court .
history
After the Second World War there were hardly any physically handicapped children - during the Nazi regime handicapped people were abused for experiments, killed or simply hidden.
It wasn't until the 1950s that the need for facilities for the physically challenged was recognized. Today's "Penny Parade" was created in Munich in 1950 as a result of a citizens' initiative for people paralyzed by polio . For Augsburg and the administrative district of Swabia , Fritz Felsenstein was the state doctor for the physically handicapped. At the beginning of the sixties this task was taken over by Horst Matthäus. But not only that, he also adopted the idea of founding a school and boarding school. The main criticism of the two doctors: in all of Swabia there were no schools for physically handicapped children. Only when the thalidomide scandal became public in 1961 and children who had suffered thalidomide injuries were born in the Augsburg region did the pressure on the government increase. But it was also the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall that challenged Germany in terms of domestic and foreign policy. One had other worries than taking care of such "little things".
Foundation of the first facilities in Göggingen
Nevertheless: A preschool kindergarten for physically handicapped and thalidomide-damaged children eV as well as a swimming school eV were founded in 1966 by Matthäus. He himself offered swimming lessons in the municipal swimming pool, which was the start of the first important initiatives. In September 1967 the time had come: the special school for handicapped children began its work. At that time, the organization founded by Matthäus was still called the “Private School Association for Physically Handicapped Children”. On February 1, 1968, the Fritz-Felsenstein-School started with 13 pupils and eight preschoolers in Ulmer Strasse in Augsburg. The official opening took place on May 8th by the then District President Frank Sieder. In 1970 there were already 64 students. That is why the school's move to a larger building with rooms on the ground floor on the grounds of the Hessing Foundation in Göggingen was welcomed. The boarding school, which at the time was only attended by children who lived further away, initially stayed on Ulmer Strasse.
In 1972 100 students went to the Fritz-Felsenstein-School, which in the meantime had a day care center as well as the boarding school . An extension of the building in Göggingen ensured a slight relaxation in the rapidly growing facility.
Relocation to Königsbrunn
When the new building began in 1974 on the current site in Königsbrunn, the number of students had already increased to 150. The move took place in the autumn of 1977. By the time of the inauguration on June 30, 1978 by the then Minister of State for Education and Culture, Hans Maier , the number of students had already grown to 200. The facility was built for 180 children; the building was already too small when it moved in.
Due to the growing demand, in 1978 it became necessary to set up special classes for children with severe multiple disabilities, for which care plays an essential role in the classroom.
In 1979 the specialist service department was established. By hiring social pedagogues and a psychologist, those responsible responded to the parents' growing need for intensive advice.
For school leavers with multiple disabilities, the work level (today vocational school level) was introduced in 1981, which serves to prepare for the workshop for the disabled and partially replaces the vocational school.
In 1983 an extension of the day care center could be started, which was inaugurated in 1985. The time of rapid growth was now over.
Expansion of the offers
In 1985 a model test for the use of computers and electronic aids for physically handicapped students was started. This resulted in the advice center for electronic aids and computers for the physically handicapped (ELECOK), which is now an integral part of the school.
With the opening of the first residential group in 1986 for six adults on the ground floor of the boarding school, a further conceptual expansion of the competence center was realized. A year later, a second residential group for five adults was founded on Donauwörther Strasse in Königsbrunn. A third residential group took place in 1994 in cooperation with Markt Mering . In 1994 the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus looked after 17 adults and 250 students.
In 1997, with the start of the Open Work with the Disabled (OBA), new territory was entered. For the first time, there were also counseling offers for physically disabled people from the Augsburg district who were not cared for in the FFH.
In autumn 1998 Karin Stoiber, the wife of the then Prime Minister , opened a barrier-free playground on the boarding school grounds.
In 1999, the offer was supplemented by a support facility for adults, which now over 20 people visit.
Structural extensions
In 2000 the extension of the school was completed for 30 school classes. With the extension, a school preparatory facility (SVE) could be reintroduced at the same time, which had already existed in the initial phase of the facility.
In order to remedy the permanent shortage of space in the therapy department, new rooms for occupational therapy were created in 2001 by adding additional floors.
In 2003 the renovation of the in-house swimming pool , which had existed in Königsbrunn since the beginning, was completed - now with significantly better, handicapped-accessible equipment and larger changing and care rooms.
The rooms of the boarding school and its equipment were no longer up-to-date after 25 years of use. The new boarding school opened its doors in 2004, and since then 40 students have had well-equipped living and care rooms at their disposal.
The Fritz Felsenstein School has been participating in the European Comenius project since the 2005/06 school year .
The lack of space in the two residential groups for adults in Königsbrunn was remedied in 2006. The district of Aichach-Friedberg and Markt Mering provided 13 adults with new living space after the renovation of the former district hospital in Mering.
The vacant rooms in the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus in Königsbrunn were ready for renovation. In 2008, the funding center for adults was able to move into new rooms with attractive furnishings.
Extension of the advisory offer
In February 2010, another department of the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus was founded under the name “Consulting Team”. Various advisory services from the facility are now brought together under one roof. Financed primarily through private funds, the "Interaktiv" advice center located there provides advice on communication and support technology .
Current situation
In the meantime, around 300 children and young people are supported and looked after in the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus; For adults there are currently 18 places available in the residential groups and 18 places in the funding facility. Over 350 employees from a wide variety of professional groups ensure their well-being.
In an intensive development and consultation process over 1.5 years, a mission statement was developed with the involvement of all employees . The individual guiding principles are intended to support day-to-day work and to set the direction for further Felsenstein development.
Structure of the facility
Due to the organizational form of a registered association , the general assembly with currently around 200 members is at the top of the facility. These elect the honorary board of seven members. The board of directors has appointed a managing director to manage the business. Two staff units (central administration team and central service team) support them in their tasks. The association currently has a total of eight non-profit institutions with their respective institution managers.
The facilities
In the various departments of the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus, physically and multiply disabled people experience the individual support and attention they need in order to lead a fulfilling life. In addition to interdisciplinary support, the facility offers advice and support for the viable and sustainable implementation of personal life plans. Working together with fun and joie de vivre and the goal of discovering and promoting individual strengths and opportunities of people guides action. The further development of the work is shaped by the vision of an inclusive society.
Fritz Felsenstein School
The school is a state-approved support center with a focus on physical and motor development. The students are promoted in small classes according to their individual capabilities. A school leaving certificate is planned as in public schools. Aids are used to support learning and independence. School life is characterized by diversity and joie de vivre: project work, on-site learning, musical support, cultural events, etc. Further offers at the Fritz-Felsenstein-School are:
- School preparatory facility: Three to six year olds are given targeted support here to enable them to successfully start school. The children learn to be with one another outside of the family, they acquire important social skills, learn practical skills and are given plenty of scope for their childish instincts to play and discover.
- Mobile Special Education Service (MSD): Trained special school teachers support and look after children and adolescents with a physical disability or a long-term illness who attend a general school (elementary school, secondary school, secondary school, grammar school), a special school or a vocational school. They complement subject-specific education, instruction and support, advise and help ensure that school integration can succeed.
Remedial day care center
After school is over, the students are looked after here until around 4 p.m. Individual support takes place in small groups. Homework supervision, support in learning to be self-employed in everyday life, promotion of personal development, as well as groups of inclinations and leisure activities are offered.
Special educational boarding school
Up to 40 children and young people can be accommodated during school hours and sometimes on weekends and school holidays. The upbringing takes place according to an individual concept in cooperation with the parents. The employees lead the development of social skills, care and maintenance are based on personal needs.
Therapy area
The therapy methods include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and music therapy. In individual and group therapy, the motor skills, perception and communication of those in care are promoted. Each individual is given individual advice and aids in cooperation with the in-house specialist in orthopedics. The therapists work closely with the parents and also support the adaptation of aids and the necessary training.
Residential groups for adults
Assisted living for adults with multiple disabilities who are dependent on assistance and care in daily life and who usually visit a workshop or subsidy facility. The residential groups enable assistance and accompaniment in everyday life as well as the organization of leisure activities and external contacts.
Funding facility
The facility is a daily offer for adults with severe physical and multiple disabilities. The actions are based on a modern concept for individual support and care, which allows a structured daily routine, recognizes and appreciates the achievements of disabled people, enables the development of a positive feeling about one's own performance and thus strengthens self-esteem. The offer also includes activating comprehensive care and therapeutic support.
Advisory team
Various advisory services are grouped under one roof under the name of the advisory team. The bundling is intended to support people with physical or multiple disabilities even better in realizing their ideas about life. Some of the offers can now also be used by people outside the facility. The offers are:
- Psychosocial counseling: Individual support and accompaniment for those affected and their relatives with personal and family problems as well as social law issues. Networking with regional and national aid offers.
- Open offers: The task is the organization and implementation of leisure, meeting and educational offers with special consideration of the needs of people with muscle diseases and people with severe physical disabilities. Appropriate assistance is offered if necessary.
- Psychotherapy and family therapy: Psychotherapy supports internal users as well as their parents and legal guardians with psychotherapeutic questions and problems as well as with the processing of disabilities, progressive, organic and mental illnesses as well as with the examination of the perspective of life.
- Advice center for communication and assistance technologies Interactive in cooperation with the advice center for electronic aids and computers for the physically handicapped at the Fritz-Felsenstein-School: Advice for people with missing or difficult to understand spoken language on all types of communication aids as well as for people with physical or multiple disabilities about the possibilities in the field of assistance technologies.
- Advice and support on the transition from school to work for students at the Fritz-Felsenstein-School.
- Individual school support for external students: Providing assistance to students with physical disabilities so that they can attend a general school.
- Department for advanced training: The work includes offering advanced training courses to ensure the quality of work in the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus over the long term.
- Department for regional networking: The task is to inform the public comprehensively about the diverse range of the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fritz Felsenstein House .
- ↑ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus imprint .
- ^ Fate of people with physical disabilities during National Socialism .
- ↑ Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus in 2008 , (6976 kB; PDF file).
- ^ Foundation Pfennigparade .
- ^ Wall construction in Berlin .
- ^ Fritz Felsenstein House Elecok .
- ↑ Play area of the Fritz Felsenstein House .
- ↑ Brochure of the curative educational boarding school of the Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2013 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. , (1713 kB; PDF file).
- ^ Comenius project of the Fritz Felsenstein School .
- ^ Residential groups in the Fritz Felsenstein House in Mering .
- ↑ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus model .
- ^ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus organization chart .
- ^ Fritz Felsenstein School .
- ↑ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus curative educational day care center .
- ^ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus boarding school for therapeutic education .
- ↑ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus therapy area .
- ↑ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus residential groups for adults .
- ^ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus funding site .
- ↑ Fritz-Felsenstein-Haus advisory team .
