Youth at work Styria
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat | Lendplatz 35, 8020 Graz, Austria |
| management | Anna Rieder (Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board / President of the Association) Walerich Berger (Managing Director) Walter Ferk (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | more than 1000 |
| Branch | Social economy |
| Website | www.jaw.or.at |
The youth at work Steiermark GmbH is a non-profit company in the field of social services in Styria . The main focus of work is in the areas of training, work and employment as well as care, leisure and living. As a Styrian provider of social services, it employs more than 1,000 people at 100 locations; Every year more than 8,000 people take advantage of the corresponding offers.
Independent organizations with the same name exist in Vienna (Jugend am Werk) and in Carinthia (Jugend am Werk Kärnten). There is also the Jugend am Werk Salzburg GmbH, a subsidiary of the Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH, and the Jugend am Werk GmbH in Upper Austria, a subsidiary of the BBRZ Group.
Fields of activity and objectives
Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH works in the field of inclusion of people with disabilities , in youth welfare and in the training and employment of young people. There are workshops and training centers, residential facilities as well as advice and support services. Jugend am Werk Steiermark is aimed at children, young people and adults who need support in professional, social and personal life issues and would like to achieve their equal opportunities in society.
The aim is an inclusive society in which all people can participate equally. All people should be able to live as independently as possible, self-determined and active. The right to participate applies to all areas of life.
history
Jugend am Werk began its work in 1948. The labor market administration at the time was looking for solutions to the high level of youth unemployment after the Second World War. The so-called vocational preschool Jugend am Werk implemented numerous course measures. In the founding year, locations were set up in Graz , Judenburg , Zeltweg and Fohnsdorf and 270 young people were looked after. In 1955 there were already more than 3,700 young people at 20 locations.
When unemployment fell drastically in Austria with the boom in the 1960s, the association's management considered dissolving the organization. However, a new area of activity soon emerged: young people with disabilities were already being looked after in many courses, and so working with people with disabilities became the new central area of responsibility. On the basis of the Styrian Disability Act (1964), new related offers were installed.
With the economic downturn in the 1970s, the AMV area also gained in importance again, so that the work of Jugend am Werk Styria was now based on two pillars: vocational preparation courses for unemployed people and training in the hotel and hospitality industry. During this time, there was a regional expansion in the area of assistance for the disabled.
The first private initiatives in the context of so-called welfare in Styria emerged in the early 1980s . One of these projects - the very first socio-educational residential community in Styria - was run by Jugend am Werk from 1982 onwards. With this facility, the foundation stone was also laid for what would later become the youth welfare department.
In 2000, Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH was founded in 100% ownership of the association. All operational activities of social work, qualification and training, activities for work integration take place in the GmbH.
Currently, Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH is confronted with growing challenges: Maintaining or constantly improving the quality of services while at the same time using public resources carefully, adapting the range of services to the new legal framework and changing framework conditions due to strict tendering procedures in the field of labor market policy are essential points.
society
The Jugend am Werk association was founded in 1948. Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH is 100% a subsidiary of the “Jugend am Werk Steiermark” association and was founded in 2000. All operational activities of social work, qualification and training, activities for work integration and refugee care take place in the GmbH. In addition, the association Jugend am Werk Styria deals with overarching tasks. This includes, for example, the best possible qualification and further training for people in social professions (further training institute "inbildung") and professional advice to our customers and their relatives (legal advice "inberatung"). Its members are Styrian communities, the Styrian Chamber of Commerce , the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) and the Styrian Chamber of Labor . The board of directors consists of the following people:
- President: Anna Rieder , former President of the Landtag D.
- Deputy President: Verena Nussbaum , Member of the National Council of the SPÖ
- Board members: Josef Wallner, Mayor of Deutschlandsberg, Johannes Schwarz , SPÖ member of the state parliament, Ute Sonnleitner, state education secretary of the ÖGB Styria, Klaus Zenz , state parliament member SPÖ, Günter Pirker, state manager of the Styrian community representatives association
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Success report 2017. Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH, June 1, 2017, accessed on February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Jugend am Werk Salzburg - About us. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Jacline Feldbaumer: The professional inclusion of people with a migration background and a physical impairment from the perspective of those affected and the companies using the example of Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH
- ↑ Dr. Heimo Halbrainer, Mag. Thomas Stoppacher: 70 years of youth at the factory in Styria . tape 1 . Graz, ISBN 978-3-200-05677-0 .
- ^ Unprotected workshops Falter. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ↑ Elke Maurer: Weeds between the beautiful flowers. Change processes from the perspective of the employees.
- ^ Association of Youth at Work in Styria. In: www.jaw.or.at. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
- ^ Organization chart Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .