Curative Education Center Krefeld - District Viersen
The Heilpädagogisches Zentrum Krefeld - Kreis Viersen gGmbH (hpz) consists of workshops that offer people with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses jobs as rehab measures.
The hpz was founded in 1967 as a non-profit company based in Tönisvorst - Hochbend in the Viersen district in order to enable people with disabilities to work in workshops. Today the hpz operates various workshops for handicapped people at nine locations in the city of Krefeld and in the district of Viersen, with around 2000 childcare places, supported by 450 specialists. The approximately 50 services range from gardening and landscaping to large laundry services and machine cutting. There is also early intervention and a curative educationDay care center. The hpz has five shareholders: the city of Krefeld, the district of Viersen, the Lebenshilfe eV in the district of Viersen and Krefeld and the association for the physically and multiply disabled. V. Krefeld.
Basic data
- Heilpädagogisches Zentrum Krefeld - Kreis Viersen gGmbH, also called hpz
- Founded: March 17, 1967
- Company form: gGmbH
- Employee. approx. 2,000
- Skilled workers: 450 pedagogical, curative pedagogical and nursing professionals as well as masters of the craft or industry with special pedagogical additional training .
- Locations: 9 in the city of Krefeld and spread across the Viersen district.
history
The beginnings of the hpz workshops go back to the 1960s, when the working group “Heilpädagogisches Zentrum” was formed. It was made up of special educators, parents, the Paritätischem Wohlfahrtsverband NRW , Lebenshilfe Krefeld and the association for the promotion and care of the spastic paralyzed and other physically handicapped people, Krefeld. Disabled school leavers should be enabled to participate in social life through work. In addition to a special educational day-care center, a workshop for people with disabilities should also be set up. In 1973 Grefrath - Vinkrath started with 60 workshop spaces. In August 1977 the new building of the curative education workshops in Tönisvorst / Hochbend with 280 seats was put into operation, where the central administration of the hpz is still located today. Since then, the workshops and offers of the hpz in the district of Viersen and in the city of Krefeld have been expanded. The increasing target group of people with mental illnesses find jobs in the own workshops of the hpz subsidiary "impuls" in Viersen , Kempen , Tönisvorst and Krefeld.
tasks
The hpz sees itself as a lobby group and as a promoter of people with intellectual disabilities, with severe multiple disabilities and with mental illnesses. The hpz follows the task of promoting and promoting the participation of disabled people in the world of work and promoting their integration or inclusion in society.
particularities
The dual management of the workshops by a production specialist and a teacher is a special feature of the hpz. It serves to balance the goals of education and rehabilitation on the one hand and product orientation on the other hand in everyday work. This approach of achieving a balance between pedagogy and economy would also be applied to other workshops.
Special offers
Since 1980 workshops have been set up for severely and multiply disabled people in the special educational care work area (ASB) and the work area for social integration (ASI) for people with behavioral and integration problems. Compared to other workshops in the region, the proportion of these employees is now relatively high at almost 35 percent. The system of integrating severely disabled people under the roof of the workshops only exists in North Rhine-Westphalia. The other federal states have set up day-care centers for this purpose.
Facilities
- Special educational day care center and mobile and interdisciplinary early intervention - in the cities of Krefeld and Viersen
- Workshops for people with mental , physical and multiple disabilities at a total of five locations
- impuls workshops for people with mental illnesses at four locations
Services
The hpz offers services such as packaging, metal and woodworking, assembly, electrical assembly, acrylic processing, packaging, shipping, gardening and landscape maintenance for industry, trade, trade and administration. In addition, the hpz has service providers such as the large laundry in Krefeld-Uerdingen, the four-color offset printing company with bookbinding at "impuls" in Kempen, a bicycle repair shop for company fleets and private ones in Krefeld, as well as a storage and logistics center in Nettetal-Breyell. The hpz has positioned itself with its job offer in such a way that it can work with small and large companies.