Catholic child welfare of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
The Catholic Youth Welfare Service of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising looks after children, young people and adults with and without disabilities in psychological, physical and social emergencies. Around 2,500 employees work in 86 facilities, including social pedagogues, educators, curative educators, speech therapists and carers.
history
The origins of the KJF movement were not in old Bavaria or Munich, but in the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine: In Kaiserslautern, the priest and religion teacher Jakob Reeb founded an association called the “Catholic Youth Welfare Association” on September 20, 1905 . Five years later, in 1910, the Catholic youth welfare of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising eV (KJF) was founded "out of concern for the need of children and young people". Up until the First World War, the focus was on arranging guardianship in helping offenders. The Bavarian Forced Upbringing Act made it possible for the state to intervene in the family for the first time in problematic cases.
In 1916 the KJF took over the Clemens Maria Children's Home on Kapuzinerstrasse in Munich. In the same year, the Princess of Bavaria took over the protectorate of the KJF. The namesake of the clerical foundation of the archdiocese was Klemens Maria Hofbauer , who in the 18th and 19th Century of neglected youth. The association opened the foundling home in Unterhaching , which was later renamed Salberghaus. During the war, in 1942, the Josefsheim in Ruhpolding was purchased .
After the war, the KJF continued to grow. In 1946, the association took over four former NSV homes , from which the facilities of the Felicitas Children's Hospital in Berchtesgaden , the Schönhäusl children's health center, also in Berchtesgaden, the children's asthma health center in Bad Reichenhall and the children's recreation home in Unterwössen emerged. A child welfare branch was established in Landshut.
After the new Youth Courts Act came into force , the KJF also took over responsibility for probation supervision for individual youths from 1953 . In 1965, the children's orthopedic clinic with spasticity center was opened in Aschau im Chiemgau . The clinic focuses on the diagnosis and therapy of congenital and acquired malformations of the extremities, disorders of the musculoskeletal system and neuro-orthopedic diseases.
In 1965 the Steinhöring care center was founded, consisting of workshops and a dormitory. In 1977 the Therapeutic Education Center in Ruhpolding opened with the St. Valentin School and day care center.
present
Since 1988 a permanent employee of the KJF has been present at the Stadelheim prison (custody for male prisoners). A KJF juvenile court assistance was founded in Freising. The refurbished Adelgundenheim was newly occupied. From 1990 onwards, children with special needs were looked after in special educational day-care centers in Munich, Putzbrunn and Freising. In the same year the project "Supervised single living" for teenagers and young adults began. In 1995, the youth court assistance in Freising started its work under the sponsorship of the KJF. This is also where the “social pedagogical family aid” started its work.
The youth welfare association , which originally worked on a voluntary basis, has developed into a church charitable professional association and recognized provider of child, youth, handicapped and health aid. In inpatient, semi-inpatient and outpatient facilities with educational and medical services, more than 13,000 children, adolescents and adults in mental, physical and social emergencies are cared for every year. The services of the church-charitable association include advice, education and integration, support, care and prevention, as well as therapy and assisted living.
In 2010, the Catholic youth welfare organization in Munich celebrated its 100th anniversary with a ceremony.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oswald, Rudolf .: Christian tradition and contemporary help: [100 years of Catholic youth welfare of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising e. V.] Verl. Sankt Michaelsbund, 2010, ISBN 978-3-939905-37-0 .