Graf Recke Foundation
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Dusseldorf , Germany
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The Graf Recke Foundation , until 2012 Graf Recke Foundation , is a non-profit foundation in the social sector based in Düsseldorf . It was built by Count Adelbert von der Recke-Volmerstein established to around the early 19th century, many children without parents to care. Today the foundation consists of three business areas with offers of help for children, adolescents, psychiatric experienced and disabled as well as those in need of care and the elderly. The foundation belongs to the Diakonie Rheinland . The number of their employees is more than 2,500, who look after over 4,000 people with different support needs.
history
After taking care of children in need since 1816, Count Adelbert von der Recke-Volmerstein founded a rescue house for street children in 1819 near the Overdyck house in Bochum , Westphalia, which he moved in 1822 to the former Trappist abbey in Düsseltal, east of Düsseldorf , which he had acquired . The Düsseltal rescue facility for orphans was created . The Overdyck Foundation emerged from the work of his brother.
Due to the industrialization of Düsseldorf, the Lindenhof near Wittlaer was bought in 1902 and the facility moved there. Theodor Fliedner's Kaiserswerther Diakonie is located nearby .
In 1907 the foundation built the Neu-Düsselthal home in Wittlaer, which included a church and a school.
post war period
In addition to child and youth welfare, there was assistance for the disabled in 1986 and assistance for the aged in 1995.
Due to the systematic mistreatment of autistic children and adolescents in the facility at Horster Allee 5 in Hilden and the sentencing of several pedagogues by the Düsseldorf Regional Court in 2017 to imprisonment in some cases , the independent subsidiary Educon non-profit GmbH returned to Graf Recke as the "Education" division Foundation integrated.
Today's areas
Child and Youth Services
The Graf Recke Education & Training division is part of a nearly two-century tradition of work by the Düsselthaler Anstalten, the Dorotheenheim in Hilden and the Girls’s Home Ratingen ; As the oldest of the three business areas, he supports children, adolescents, young adults and their families in mastering their lives. The range of services includes residential groups, individual care, socio-educationally assisted living, curative educational day groups, curative and leisure-time educational and therapeutic specialist services, family and parent work and other offers for young people, some with disabilities.
Together with the private special needs schools with a focus on emotional, social and spiritual development in Düsseldorf-Wittlaer , Ratingen and Wuppertal as well as Graf-Recke-Kindertagesstätten gGmbH in Düsseldorf and Mülheim an der Ruhr , these offers make up the Graf Recke Education & Training division with over 1,600 supervised children, adolescents and families. In 2017 the Graf Recke Foundation took over the operation of the curative educational-therapeutic facilities Grünau in Bad Salzuflen and the youth welfare service Bielefeld-Mitte from the Ev. Johanneswerk eV, Bielefeld , and continues this as Graf Recke Pädagogik gGmbH, Westphalia-Lippe region.
Care and service living
In its senior facilities in Düsseldorf, Hilden and Neumünster, Graf Recke Wohnen & Pflege offers a total of over 800 places in the inpatient area as well as in service living. Today's Living & Care division includes the Walter-Kobold-Haus in Düsseldorf-Wittlaer , the Zum Königshof senior citizen center in Düsseldorf-Unterrath , the Dorotheenpark senior citizen center in Hilden and Haus Berlin gGmbH in Neumünster ( Schleswig-Holstein ). Since 2014, the Graf Recke Foundation has also been running the outpatient care service recke : mobil in the north of Düsseldorf . In addition, since 2017 it has offered day care and a shared apartment for people with dementia in Düsseldorf-Unterrath near the Zum Königshof senior center.
Social psychiatry and curative education
The Social Psychiatry & Curative Education division offers people with psychiatric experience in the Social Psychiatric Association and people with intellectual as well as multiple disabilities different types of care and living (residential buildings, outdoor living groups and assisted living), as well as various therapeutic training and support offers in the day-structuring area (ET, AT , Practice for occupational therapy, SPZ, day care center). The offers are intended to enable those affected to learn or relearn a self-determined life in steps that correspond to the current possibilities of the individual.
Institution church community
Until 2011 there was still an “institutional church community” within the Graf Recke Foundation. On November 22, 2011, the church leadership of the Rhenish Church approved the merger of the Evangelical Church Community at the Graf Recke Foundation with the Evangelical Church Community of Kaiserswerth on January 1, 2012. The pastoral work of the honorary and full-time employees of the Graf Recke Church was retained by the Graf Recke Foundation. The community rooms and the church will also continue to be financed by the foundation. Instead of the previous presbytery, a church advisory council will be responsible for the special concerns of pastoral and diaconal work in the Graf Recke Foundation . In addition to the previous presbyters and a member of the previous Kaiserswerth presbytery, it also includes skilled employees of the Graf Recke Foundation. Services are still regularly celebrated in the Graf Recke Church. Since January 1, 2012, it has also been the place of worship for the Kaiserswerth parish. Pastors of the foundation and the previous parish in Kaiserswerth will alternately organize the services.
Fonts
- See, I stand in front of the door and knock (Revelation 3.20) Rescue facility, Düsselthal approx. 1840 ( digitized version )
- Gerlinde Viertel: the beginning of the rescue house movement under Adelberdt Graf von der Recke-Volmerstein (1791–1878) . Series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History Volume 110, Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7927-1387-X .
- Edith Salzmann: Children on the sidelines . Verlag Presseverband der Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland eV, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-87645-061-5 .
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