Youth at work

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Youth at work
The new umbrella brand of Jugend am Werk
purpose Promotion of a self-determined life
Chair: Managing Director: Brigitte Gottschall-Müller; Chair: Gabriele Mörk
Establishment date: June 1, 1945 ( Youth in Need on December 19, 1930)
Seat : Vienna 16 , Thaliastraße
Website: https://www.jaw.at

Jugend am Werk is a non-profit association that operates two non-profit limited liability companies . The Jugend am Werk Vocational Training for Young People  GmbH enables young people who could not find an apprenticeship position to receive vocational training. The Jugend am Werk accompaniment of people with disabilities  GmbH offers services for people with mental or multiple disabilities as well as occupational therapies . The organization operates in Vienna , Lower Austria and Burgenland . Independent organizations with the same name exist in Styria ( Jugend am Werk Steiermark ) and in Carinthia (Jugend am Werk Kärnten ). There is also the Jugend am Werk  GmbH in Upper Austria , a subsidiary of the BBRZ group, and the Jugend am Werk Salzburg  GmbH, a subsidiary of the Styrian organization.

history

Establishment in the Karl-Seitz-Hof in Vienna

Youth in need

On December 19, 1930, the organization Jugend in Not was founded in Vienna . The aim of this organization was initially to combat youth unemployment, on August 1, 1932, working groups were started under the name Jugend am Werk , which enable unemployed young people to receive vocational training and further education. This model was also adopted in other federal states. After Adolf Hitler came to power in Austria in 1938, these organizations were dissolved.

Re-establishment in 1945

former logo

On June 1, 1945, the City of Vienna founded Jugend am Werk as part of Municipal Department 11 (Youth Welfare Office) . Fritz Konir from the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions took over the first management of the organization and Leo Mistinger was entrusted by the city government to set up the organization Jugend am Werk within the city of Vienna. In the form of leaflets and on the radio, calls were made to the young people and their parents to contact the Aktion Jugend am Werk advice centers. At the beginning, the young people helped clear up the bomb debris and later with harvest operations in the countryside. In autumn 1945 the first vocational training courses were started in the ÖGB training workshops in Hellwagstrasse and Hofmühlgasse.

Vocational preparation courses

In 1948 vocational preparation courses started, which are arranged by the employment office. They served the young people as a bridging measure until they got a suitable job or apprenticeship position. The success of the offers also increased the demand for additional measures among Jugend am Werk. From 1948 to 1954, Jugend am Werk initiatives were founded in the federal states. Among them was the pre-school youth at work , which was founded in Vorarlberg in 1953 by the later Toni Russ Prize winner Helmutz Lutz († 2000) .

In 1951 Felix Dvorak , later an actor and author, was accepted as a teenager in the workshops, first in Herklotzgasse, 1150 Vienna, and then in Grundsteingasse, 1160 Vienna.

In 1957, Jugend am Werk became an association

In 1957, Jugend am Werk was spun off from the City of Vienna's municipal department and became an independent association. Members of the association were the municipality of Vienna, the Federal Ministry for Social Administration, the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions , the Union of Construction and Woodworkers, the Union of Metalworkers and Miners, today's Labor Market Service and the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees . The ÖGB training workshops for metal and wood processing were integrated into the Jugend am Werk association.

The first workshop for occupational therapy in Austria

After the systematic extermination of people with intellectual disabilities during the Nazi era, there were only a few disabled people who were able to escape Action T4 in 1945 . It was only when a new generation grew up that there were children with intellectual disabilities who grew up to be young people. Since there were hardly any offers for school and vocational training for these young people, Jugend am Werk faced this new challenge and in 1958, together with the employment office and the Vienna City School Board, established three working groups for young people with intellectual disabilities.

For those part of the young people with an intellectual disability who leave school and were not suitable for a later entry into professional life, new offers had to be developed. This expanded the content-related area of ​​responsibility, because so far the focus was on preparing for professional life. Now offers have been developed that enable meaningful employment. In 1959, Jugend am Werk opened the first occupational therapy workshop in Austria in a former school building of the City of Vienna at Kuefsteingasse 38. In addition to courses to promote the individual skills of young people with intellectual disabilities, the first orders from business have already been accepted.

In 1963 Fritz Muster and Andreas Rett founded the first sheltered workshop for young people with nervous disorders in Vienna.

Vienna Disability Act 1966

With the passing of the Vienna Disability Act in 1966 , a quantum leap was achieved in the care of people with disabilities in Vienna. The City of Vienna concluded contracts with organizations in which daily rates were agreed as the financing basis.

In the early 1970s, the field of assistance for the disabled grew rapidly. New workshops were continuously opened and additional dormitories were put into operation. The range was expanded in the workshops.

Shared flats

The first shared apartments for people with intellectual disabilities were set up at Jugend am Werk in 1984. In this type of living, 8-10 people live in a large apartment in the middle of a residential area in order to promote integration with the surrounding area.

Professional integration

In 1996, Jugend am Werk organized an international conference on the subject of professional integration and started as a pioneer in Austria with integration support . The integration guides support the participants in the Jugend am Werk qualification projects in their search for a job and advise the companies. In the years that followed, numerous other projects were launched to integrate people with disabilities into the general labor market, including job assistance , job coaching, projects on temporary employment and professional orientation, and the integration specialist service. Since 2016, the inclusive teaching team has been creating news in simple language in cooperation with the Kurier (daily newspaper) .

In 1997, Jugend am Werk took part in a program run by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnstellen, in which the first accommodation offers for people with disabilities, who were often isolated in psychiatric hospitals for years, were set up. Jugend am Werk set up a shared apartment for this target group in Sobieskigasse in the 9th district. An intensive phase of getting to know each other began and many residents often expressed their own wishes for the first time in their lives.

Inter-company vocational training

Due to the decreasing number of apprenticeships for young people at the end of the 1990s, Jugend am Werk took part in the “Initiative Apprentice” program of the Austrian federal government and started in 1996 with the so-called apprentice foundations and later with vocational courses for those young people who couldn't find an apprenticeship position. In April 2005, a new model was created with the inter-company vocational training according to Section 30 of the Vocational Training Act, with which young people can complete the entire training over the entire apprenticeship period with a training provider. Since 2009 there has been a training guarantee from the federal government as well as a Vienna training guarantee, which enables young people who want to do an apprenticeship either an apprenticeship position, a qualification or a supportive advisory service.

Self-determination and participation initiatives

After a lecture by Michael Long, the leading representative of the people first movement, the group Vienna People First was founded at Jugend am Werk in 2000 . People first stands for a movement from the USA that advocates self-advocacy for people with learning disabilities.

Building on the experiences of the future conference, the opportunities for participation for apprentices and people with disabilities will be expanded. Annual apprentice surveys and regular house parliaments take place in the workshops. In the meantime, self-advocacy bodies for people with disabilities have established themselves as workshop councils and housing councils.

In 2007, Jugend am Werk organized an international congress entitled We are right (e) , in which over 300 self- advocates for the rights of people with learning disabilities took part.

Since June 2012, the self-advocates for people with learning difficulties and disabilities (self-advocates reject the term “intellectual disability”) have their own office space in the so-called “Competence Center” of Jugend am Werk.

Management since 1945

  • 1945: Fritz Konir , Austrian Federation of Trade Unions
  • 1945–1950: Leo Mistinger , City of Vienna
  • 1950–1966: Josef Blaszovsky
  • 1966–1980: Fritz Muster
  • 1980–1995: Hans Sutara
  • 1995–2017: Walter Schaffraneck
  • since 2017: Brigitte Gottschall-Müller

structure

In 1957, Jugend am Werk was spun off from the Vienna community and organized as a separate association. Founding members and sponsors on the board are the City of Vienna , the Republic of Austria represented by the Ministry of Social Affairs , the Labor Market Service , the Chamber of Labor , the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the trade unions for metal, textile and construction , as well as the Province of Burgenland and the European Social Fund .

Since January 1, 2012, the association has been operating two non-profit limited liability companies, the "Jugend am Werk Vocational Training for Young People GmbH" and the "Jugend am Werk Support for People with Disabilities GmbH".

At the beginning of 2015, the “REiNTEGRA Vocational Reintegration of Mentally Ill People in Vienna non-profit GmbH” became a subsidiary of the “Youth at Work Support for People with Disabilities GmbH”. REiNTEGRA will remain an independent company and will retain its name and brand identity.

today

As of January 1, 2018, 1743 people with learning difficulties and disabilities were accompanied in a workshop and day structure. 880 people with learning difficulties and disabilities were cared for in residential facilities (residential buildings, shared apartments or accompanied individual living spaces).

Around 1,240 young people who could not find an apprenticeship and 470 adults who are catching up on educational qualifications attended training and further education measures. A total of 280 people with learning difficulties and disabilities have taken advantage of offers for professional integration.

Further offers of the organization include one location with accompanied living spaces for people with mental illnesses (since 2011) and four locations with shared apartments for a total of 32 children and young people (since 2012), which are commissioned by Municipal Department 11 ( Municipal Authority of the City of Vienna , Vienna Children's and youth welfare).

The organization is one of the largest such institutions in Austria.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anton Kimml : 5 years "Youth in Need" - a work of social assistance. Self-published by the board of trustees of the “Youth in Need” campaign. Vienna 1935, pages 6-9.
  2. ^ Arbeitsmarktservice Vorarlberg (ed.): Concept summary for pre-school youth at work. 2006, PDF , p. 2.
  3. ↑ Andreas Rett: Children in our hands - A life with the disabled. ORAC, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7015-0178-5 , page 141.
  4. ↑ The Inclusive Teaching Editing of September 29, 2016 at https://kurier.at/einfache-sprache .