Youth welfare station

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The few authors who created the definition refer to regional services as youth welfare stations , which organize, plan, advise and finance educational assistance on behalf of the authorized youth welfare offices . This makes them alternative institutions in the aid plan process .

The following approaches have been developed and / or implemented in Germany: In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , on the one hand, four model projects “youth welfare stations” were set up for hot spots with a term of five years. The independent organization ISP has introduced its flexible educational aids to you. Sections 28 to 35 of Book VIII of the Social Code should not be separated from one another, but should be provided from a single source as required. In addition to the four models, another 50 youth welfare facilities were set up in M.-V. built up. The fathers of this approach are Thomas Klatetzki (Das Rauhe Haus Hamburg, also Schleswig-Holstein), Jochen Rößler (then foreigners commissioner in M.-V.) and Hagen Winter , who received the Hermine Albers Prize in 1994 for his commitment .

As early as 1986, the Berlin-based Manfred Günther had presented a hypothesis-led exploratory study, which, on the basis of a narrative, partially structured interview with experts in child and adolescent psychiatry and youth welfare , was intended to show new ways in the jungle of offers that were still measures at the time. This was followed by a monograph that recommended the establishment of youth welfare stations and network institutions. The state (West Berlin) should be restructured (the later district mergers are similar to that) in order to then set up community-based, regional youth welfare stations for about every 60,000-inhabitant Kiez from there. Whether the authorities (sovereign) or recognized independent youth welfare organizations should operate the services initially remained open. In addition to Günther, colleagues Günter Menkel, Armin Emrich and Martin Scherpner also pursued these goals.

The faction of the Alternative List (forerunner of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party ) then commissioned the Senate to prepare a report on the possibilities of setting up youth welfare stations in the state of Berlin. Problem-oriented help in the district should be provided holistically and accompanying development. The cameralistic “title economy” was called into question. At that time, the Senate rejected this qualitative reorientation.

10 years later, however, regionalized youth welfare facilities actually emerged in Berlin, 3 to 8 facilities per double district, as presented in the old conceptions from 1987. The theoretical background, however, was now the considerations on the social and spatial administration of the Duisburg university professor Wolfgang Hinte .

Today we find parts of the youth welfare station idea in various places in Germany. This has been the case in the Cuxhaven district since 2003 . The sponsors of the youth welfare stations there are the German Red Cross - also a recognized independent sponsor of youth welfare - with four of the seven stations as well as the AWO and the Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband .

The youth welfare station is to be seen technically in conceptual proximity to the social space orientation of Hans Thiersch . Even Carl Wolfgang Müller , co-founder of practical science , is the inspiration with his approach of community work .

literature

  • Manfred Günther: Young people in the Berlin psycho jungle . AJB Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-925399-03-8 .
  • Thomas Klatetzki (ed.): Flexible educational aids . Vote 1994, ISBN 3-926549-98-X .
  • Hagen Winter: youth welfare stations. In: IGFH (Ed.): Materials for home education . No. 3, August 1993.