Learning to live together

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Learning to live together
legal form Registered association
founding 1980
Seat Munich
purpose Common life for people with and without disabilities .
Action space Germany
Chair Konstanze Riedmüller
Managing directors Rudi Sack
Website gll-muenchen.de

The association, learning to live together (GLL) e. V. is a non-profit association founded in 1980 with headquarters in Munich . The association operates several integrative residential communities in and around Munich and supports the equal participation of people with and without disabilities in life in society.

The association's first shared flat in Munich- Neuhausen , which nine people moved into in September 1989, was the first nationwide project in which people with intellectual disabilities and students came together to live in a shared flat.

Basic goals

As part of the Evangelical Lutheran deanery district of Munich, the association advocates a human life in diversity and diversity. It is based on the biblical statement of man as the image of God, as the Christian foundation of the work of the association. Inclusion is lived together and living together is seen as a shared learning process.

The common form of living implemented by the association enables the integration of people with disabilities on a partnership basis and “on an equal footing”.

Activities and offers

Living

Using the example of the shared flat in Neuhausen, the model is based on the following concept: Five people with disabilities and four students live in a shared flat, and the shared flat is supported by an external socio-educational specialist and a participant in a voluntary service ( voluntary social year , federal voluntary service ). This concept would be summarized today under the term “help mix”. A cleaning service has been hired to clean the common rooms for several years. The four non-handicapped roommates live rent-free, contribute to the flat share and work on a weekday from the afternoon until the next morning, as well as one weekend per month including Friday afternoon; disabled residents are in during the dayWorkshops or visit a day care center . A lot of communication, help with everyday activities as well as joint activities and vacations are part of living in a shared apartment.

The shared apartment is financed, among other things, from integration assistance . For this purpose, a service agreement for integrative outpatient care residential communities was made with the Upper Bavaria district as the provider of integration assistance .

After the association's first shared apartment was opened in Munich-Neuhausen in September 1989 in a villa that a childless couple had bequeathed to the city, additional shared apartments were opened in 1996, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2015. The association runs two 24/7 residential communities: one in Riem , one in Domagkpark . He runs six other shared apartments: in the Am Hart district , in Graefelfing , in Gröbenzell , in Großhadern , in Neuhausen and in Perlach . He also runs two individual apartments at Domagkpark and in Graefelfing (as of 2020). The flat share in the villa in Neuhausen still exists.

Such approaches are now mostly called inclusive living, but the association explicitly sticks to the original name " integrative living community". Today there is a strong demand for this type of living; GLL managing director Rudi Sack speaks of "waiting lists that we will not be able to cope with in 100 years."

Almost all of the association's shared apartments are barrier-free and therefore also accessible for wheelchair users.

There were also reservations about the new form of living. For example, the social welfare office doubted that the non-disabled students get up at night to help their roommates if necessary, and that they generally carry out their tasks in the right way, because the agency lacks an official right to intervene over the roommates compared to conventional facilities for people with disabilities . On the other hand, the GLL managing director reports that the mistrust has meanwhile turned into trust and that experience has shown that problems can be solved through dialogue.

Outpatient service

The outpatient service of the association, learning to live together, offers a school escort service . The offer also includes open work with the disabled and advice , participation services , care services and project work. Among other things, other organizations are supported in implementing similar or modified models.

Limits of the model

Based on experience, the association “with a guilty conscience” now assumes that the form of living in an integrative shared flat reaches its limits when people have a mental handicap in combination with significantly challenging behavior or an additional mental illness, because employees have no option to demarcate themselves after “termination of service” because they live there.

In order to maintain the family character of the association and to avoid excessive institutionalization , the association welcomes it when other organizations take up the model but implement it on their own responsibility.

history

According to its own statements, the association initially emerged as an association of parents of young people with intellectual and multiple disabilities who had jointly participated in leisure activities of the open work with the disabled (OBA) of the Evangelical Youth Munich. Originally, the association was conceived as a development association to support the leisure activities in the context of open work with the disabled.

Around 1983 the idea of ​​an inclusive residential community came from the group of young people who were volunteering together in the OBA of the Protestant Youth and were just starting their studies. Their model for the new form of living was the concept of a student flat share.

Networking

The GLL is a member of the LAG Bavaria Living Together - Learning Together eV

There are now several providers of integrative or inclusive residential communities for people with and without disabilities. According to estimates by experts, there are currently around 50 including shared apartments in Germany. The GLL is one of the founding members of the nationwide association Wohn: Sinn - Alliance for inclusive living .

Media coverage

There have been several reports about the association in print media and television or video media. Representatives of the association are also consulted as experts on the subject of integrative or inclusive forms of living.

Awards

The following awards were given in direct or indirect connection with the GLL:

  • 2012: Inclusion award from the district of Upper Bavaria for the inclusive housing project in Domagkpark.
  • 2019: The chairwoman Konstanze Riedmüller received the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver for her "outstanding commitment to inclusion and participation of people with disabilities". The lawyer was on the board of the Munich parents' and sponsoring association “Helfende Dinge” for 14 years. She was deputy chairwoman of the GLL for several years and has been its first chairwoman since 2018.

literature

  • Rudi Sack: Living under one roof: people with and without disabilities live together . In: Inclusion - Living - Social Space. Basics of the index for inclusion for living in the community, Lebenshilfe-Verlag, Marburg 2016, pp. 323–332. (2nd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-88617-220-7 .)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Where we come from. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Contact. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Berthold Neff: So far unique project in the Federal Republic: Living together with disabled people. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 1989, accessed November 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ What we want. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b conception of integrative living community. Learning to live together e. V., October 31, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Annette Wild: Nobody goes out here the way they went in. In: BISS. May 2014, accessed November 17, 2020 . Pp. 6-13.
  7. ↑ FSJ / BFD. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Rudi Sack: Living under one roof: people with and without disabilities live together . In: Inclusion - Living - Social Space. Basics of the index for inclusion for living in the community , Lebenshilfe-Verlag, Marburg 2016, pp. 323–332.
  9. ↑ a b organizational chart. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c Dieter Sell: Including shared apartments. "Specialists for everyday life". In: Frankfurter Rundschau (fr.de). November 4, 2019, accessed November 17, 2020 .
  11. ^ Heimatrauschen - Article in BR magazine on 30 years of Neuhausen shared accommodation (2019). Online , from minute 3:27.
  12. ↑ Integration as a lifelong dream. Interview with Rudi Sack about the history of integrative residential communities (from 0:07:30) on YouTube , accessed on November 18, 2020.
  13. ↑ Conception of an integrative residential community. In: Stammtisch-wohnen.de. Learning to live together e. V., July 10, 2014, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Integration as a lifelong dream. Interview with Rudi Sack about the history of integrative residential communities on YouTube , accessed on November 17, 2020 ..
  15. ^ Regional associations LAG Bayern Living Together - Learning Together eV In: inklusionleben.com. Retrieved November 17, 2020 .
  16. ↑ a b Dieter Sell: Living together: Inclusive residential communities have “waiting lists that we will not be able to cope with in 100 years”. In: sonntagsblatt.de. November 19, 2019, accessed November 17, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Wohn: Sinn - Alliance for Inclusive Living e. V. In : wohnsinn.org. 2020, accessed November 17, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Pullach: “Like in a student flat share”. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved November 17, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Hanna Klein, living together with people with disabilities: "They're just a little crazy": WG shows how inclusion can work , Focus (video).
  20. ^ TV report 2008 by Bayerischer Rundfunk as part of the series " Vita about the integrative residential community in Munich-Am Hart on YouTube , accessed on November 17, 2020.
  21. ↑ Report from SAT 1 BAYERN about the integrative residential community in Munich-Neuhausen on YouTube , accessed on November 17, 2020 ..
  22. ↑ TV report about the integrative residential community Gräfelfing in Menschen - das Magazin , ZDF January 13, 2017 on YouTube , accessed on November 17, 2020 ..
  23. ^ Flat share: Free room, but for work - ARD Alpha / BR. Report on YouTube , accessed on November 17, 2020 ..
  24. ↑ living. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 16, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Rudi Sack: High distinction for GLL chairperson. Learning to live together e. V., February 20, 2019, accessed November 17, 2020 .
  26. ^ Constitutional medal for Konstanze Riedmüller. In: sueddeutsche.de. February 22, 2019, accessed November 17, 2020 .
  27. ^ Rudi Sack: New board elected. Learning to live together e. V., June 25, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Board of Directors. Learning to live together e. V., 2020, accessed on November 17, 2020 .