Joseph Society
| Divisions and service areas of the JG Group (as of 2014) |
branch | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten and school | 1449 | |
| Vocational training | Vocational preparation year | 183 |
| Vocational colleges | 769 | |
| Vocational training centers | 890 | |
| Professional development agencies | 743 | |
| Work and employment | Workshops for disabled people |
1553 |
| Integration companies | 323 | |
| Daily funding | 388 | |
| Living and leisure | Youth welfare | 121 |
| Housing for children and young people |
579 | |
| Living for adults | 1364 | |
| Outpatient services / family relief service |
514 | |
| Assisted living | 521 | |
| Old people's home | 309 | |
| hospital | 455 | |
| total | 10,057 |
The Josefs-Gesellschaft e. V. (JG group) is a Catholic provider of hospitals, retirement homes and facilities for people with disabilities and a member of the German Caritas Association .
The JG Group offers differentiated help and has around 10,000 places for the disabled with over 7,444 employees in around 50 service areas. In the facilities of the JG group, people take independent steps in school, professional and social rehabilitation. The JG Group is socio-politically committed to the rights of disabled people and their integration.
The JG group is a member of the Brussels Circle, a cooperation of 13 German denominational social enterprises . Since 2001 she has been a full member of the 'European Platform for Rehabilitation', an association of social enterprises from over 20 European countries based in Brussels.
Foundation and history
The Josefs-Gesellschaft was founded in 1904 on the initiative of pastor Heinrich Sommer in Bigge in the Sauerland. The association thus took up a concern of the 1903 Katholikentag in Cologne, which had spoken out in favor of "cripple welfare" and for Catholic "cripple institutions". The founding members wanted to improve the living conditions of physically handicapped young people through medical care and, above all, through vocational training. The first chairman was the former district administrator Hans Carl Federath . In the following decades, in which Conrad Freiherr von Wendt was chairman of the board from 1914 to 1945, the Josefs-Gesellschaft grew continuously through the establishment of new companies and the assumption of sponsorship to 25 companies nationwide with a focus on North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1945 to 1972 Wilhelm Rombach headed the board of the JG. Even disabled from birth, his commitment to the disabled was a lifelong concern for him. Since the thirties he was a board member of the Vinzenz-Heim in Aachen, later also a board member of the Josefs-Gesellschaft.
From 1959 the JG offered thalidomide victims subsidies and assistance.
In 1972 she founded the vocational support organization for the vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped adults in Hamm. By the mid-1980s, vocational training centers were set up in other institutions.
From around 1990, more and more JG institutions developed outpatient services.
In 2004 the JG took over the sponsorship of the Bad Wildbad professional development agency in the Black Forest.
On June 1, 2010, the JG appointed the board of trustees of the Sankt Vincenzstift in Aulhausen. On January 1, 2012, the operational business of the St. Vincenz Foundation was transferred to Sankt Vincenzstift gGmbH as a subsidiary of the JG Group.
From 1986 to 2014 Franz Kaspar was Chairman of the Supervisory Board; Volker Odenbach held this office from 2014 to 2016. Reinhard Elzer has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since January 2017.
organization
The following independent institutions and companies are united under the umbrella of the Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH holding company :
Facilities
- Antoniushaus, Hochheim am Main , 380 places: In the middle of the Rhein-Main-Taunus region, in the Antoniushaus Hochheim in the Peter-Josef-Briefs-Schule and in the Edith-Stein-Schule für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung, places are offered for physically handicapped people. A school boarding school is attached. Different housing spaces are available for adult disabled persons.
- Benediktushof, Reken , 629 places: The Benediktushof Maria Veen in Münsterland is a bundled facility that offers accommodation for children, young people and adults with disabilities as well as training positions in a vocational training center and jobs in a workshop for disabled people and in an integration company.
- Bad Wildbad Vocational Promotion Agency , 230 places: The Bad Wildbad Vocational Promotion Agency offers retraining in new professions and hospital beds for patients with paraplegia and similar disabilities. An advice center and a driving school to regain mobility complete the offer.
- Berufsförderungswerk Hamm GmbH, 600 places: The offers of the Berufsförderungswerk Hamm include the rehabilitation assessment, rehabilitation preparation, diverse training and qualification measures and an adjoining living area. In addition to Kolping and KAB of the Diocese of Paderborn, the Josefs-Gesellschaft has a 50% share in the sponsorship.
- Conrad-von-Wendt-Haus , Dahn , 50 places: The Josefs-Gesellschaft has opened a dormitory for people with disabilities in Dahn. The house is located in the city center of the climatic health resort surrounded by the "Palatinate Forest" nature park. The residents can find the new center of life here in spacious residential apartments
- Eduardus Hospital, Cologne, 287 places: The internationally known Eduardus Hospital in Cologne on the Rhine is more than just a hospital. It offers the departments of orthopedics, orthopedic rheumatology, trauma surgery, internal medicine, surgery, anesthesia and radiology. Under the roof of the hospital there is a health and nursing school, the workshop for orthopedic technology, the rheumatism center and practices for resident doctors, occupational therapy, a hospital pharmacy, the Hospiz e. V. and the “Reha-Deutz health and rehabilitation center” as well as a state-approved school for physiotherapy.
- Elisabeth Clinic, Bigge , 190 places: The Elisabeth Clinic, Bigge in Olsberg in Hochsauerland is a nationally recognized specialist clinic for orthopedics, rheumatology, internal medicine and internal rheumatology with a designated department for early rehabilitation.
- Haus Elisabeth, Dillenburg , 118 places: Haus Elisabeth is a residential, care and nursing facility for the elderly and people in need of care on the outskirts of Dillenburg, in the Lahn-Dill district. Here they not only receive competent care, but also loving support and a daily schedule that corresponds to their ideas, wishes and skills. Single rooms are standard.
- Haus Golten, Geldern , 99 places: The Haus Golten nursing home is located in a park on the course of the river Niers , embedded in the extensive Lower Rhine landscape. Above all, the house offers a wide range of day and short-term care through to fully inpatient living, primarily in single rooms and senior citizens' apartments.
- Haus Rheinfrieden , Rhöndorf , 198 places: Adolescents and young adults live and learn in Haus Rheinfrieden in Rhöndorf am Rhein. The Nell-Breuning vocational college for business and administration guarantees a wide-ranging commercial school education that leads to different degrees. The boarding school and the outdoor living groups offer physically handicapped students an attractive living space.
- Heinrich-Haus , Neuwied , The places in the large facility Heinrich-Haus Neuwied am Rhein include, among other things, differentiated housing offers for children, young people and adults with disabilities, the Christiane-Herzog-School and the Wilhelm-Albrecht-School, the vocational training center in Heimbach -Weis with an integrated vocational school, workshop locations for people with disabilities, day care centers and integration companies.
- Josefshaus, Lipperode , 97 places: As part of the Josefsheim Bigge, the Josefshaus Lipperode offers contemporary, differentiated forms of living. It connects the living and working world on one site in the neighboring house with the “Lipperoder Werkstätten”. As a partner of industry and trade, the Lipperoder workshops attach great importance to high quality.
- Josefsheim Bigge, 732 places: The Josefsheim Bigge, the bundled facility with a long tradition in the Hochsauerland, offers a remedial educational kindergarten, a boarding school for children and young people, a vocational training center and the Heinrich Sommer vocational college with connected housing, a workshop for disabled people and a large, very differentiated living area. In addition, the Josefsheim offers open assistance, which is divided into outpatient services for assisted living and family care, as well as a brewery as an integration company.
- JOVITA Rheinland, Troisdorf , 24 places to live, 74 people in outpatient care: JOVITA Rheinland gGmbH is a service provider for people with physical, learning and sensory disabilities. The range of services is aimed at people of all age groups and includes inpatient and outpatient housing and services in the Cologne / Bonn area and the Rhein-Sieg district.
- Kardinal-von-Galen-Haus, Dinklage , 314 places: The Kardinal-von-Galen-Haus Dinklage in Lower Saxony provides places for children and young people in its own school as well as in an attached boarding school. It also offers living spaces in outdoor living groups. In 2008, a nursing home for young adults with physical disabilities was opened on site.
- Rehabilitation Center Stadtroda, 182 places: In Thuringia, the offers of the Rehabilitation Center Stadtroda include two day care centers at several locations, a workshop for handicapped people and very different types of living from inpatient housing to a transitional home to assisted living for mentally impaired and handicapped people . Other shareholders are the Josefs-Gesellschaft with 55%, the Saale-Holzlandkreis and the city of Stadtroda.
- St. Vincenzstift Aulhausen Aulhausen , 1000 places: The St. Vincenzstift in Aulhausen looks after and accompanies people with mental and / or multiple disabilities. The spectrum of assistance for the disabled ranges from decentralized children's houses to adult living groups. Around 70 children and young people also live in the Marienhausen youth welfare service. In addition, the St. Vincenzstift operates an integrative daycare center and a tripartite school with around 300 internal and external students.
- Vinzenz-Heim, Aachen , 339 places: The Vinzenz-Heim in Aachen developed into a special provider for the living area with numerous outdoor living groups and houses for children, schoolchildren and adults with disabilities. The Vinzenz-Heim includes a vocational college for business and administration with a private, state-recognized two-year business school.
- Headquarters of the Josefs-Gesellschaft e. V. Cologne: Due to the expansion of the Josefs-Gesellschaft e. V. the central administration was relocated to Cologne in 1926.
Integration companies
The Josefs-Gesellschaft supports the integration of disabled people into the labor market through its own integration companies:
- DG Mittelrhein gGmbH : Workplaces in three postal agencies with stationery sales and book ordering service, supplemented by contract packaging.
- DGT Dienstleistungs-Gesellschaft Taunus GmbH : Jobs in the service sector from office work to gardening. A training workshop and an integration center are attached.
- Service Center DLC Neuwied gGmbH : Workplaces for people with physical disabilities in all areas of the office industry.
- Josefs-Brauerei gGmbH : Jobs for disabled people in beverage production, distribution and sales.
- Transfair-Montage GmbH Maria Veen : Workplaces for two-wheel assembly and metalworking.
Other companies in the JG group
- JG-Services GmbH : JG-Services deals with the cleaning, assembly and sterilization of surgical instrument sets.
literature
- Andreas Wollasch, Werner Hinse, JG (Hrsg.): History and stories of the Josefs-Gesellschaft (100 years of Josefs-Gesellschaft) . Dialogverlag Münster, 2004, ISBN 3-933144-89-2
- Between welfare and Nazi ideology - institutions of the Josefs-Gesellschaft in the time of euthanasia . dialogverlag Münster, ISBN 3-933144-38-8
- Fritz Krueger, Theodor Michael Lucas (eds.): Traumatic brain trauma - accompanying people competently . Verlag Josefsheim, ISBN 3-938481-02-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2016 of the Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH. (PDF) Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH, July 15, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Annual report 2017 of the Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH. Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH, July 11, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Brussels Circle: Together for People
- ↑ epr.eu European Platform for Rehabilitation
- ^ Josefs-Gesellschaft gGmbH: Our facilities
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier: Josefs-Gesellschaft without Kaspar . ( Memento from April 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Wiesbadener Kurier , March 26, 2014