Friedenau children's home

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Friedenau e. V.
purpose Joint upbringing and care for disabled and non-disabled children, as well as the therapeutic treatment and social integration of disabled children.
Chair: Carsten Meinecke (Chairman),
Esther Engel,
Moritz Goller
Establishment date: 1972 (as children's house Friedenau)
1979 (as e. V. )
Number of employees: 35
Seat : Hedwigstrasse 13,
12159 Berlin
Website: www.kinderhaus-friedenau.de

The Friedenau e. V. is the sponsor of the first integrative day care center in Berlin and the German-speaking area. This beginning was followed by nationwide development. In Berlin, the parents, whose children had played, learned and lived together in the Friedenau children's home since 1972, campaigned for the continuation of the experience of community in elementary school. Since 1975, integration classes have been set up in the Fläming elementary school in Berlin .

Since 1972 there have been integration groups at the Friedenau Children's Home, in which disabled and non-disabled children are brought up together. Of the around 120 children (as of 2013) in nine groups, around 20 to 25 percent have special educational needs.

history

At the end of the 1960s, the pediatrician Bahram Karimi founded a center for the early detection and early treatment of cerebral movement disorders in the West Berlin district of Friedenau . This center was primarily used for outpatient treatment. In 1972 there were some parents of disabled children who found that physiotherapy alone was not enough. Therefore, in May 1972, the parents submitted a methodical, financial and personal basic concept to the Senate, which justified the need for therapeutic groups with disabled and non-disabled children.

When the parents' concept was processed for a decision by the Berlin Senate in May 1972 , two groups were already working. The parents had rented a shop in Friedenau, rebuilt it for the needs of the children over the weekend and after work, and had already started working on a common educational concept. The financial situation was not yet secured and Der Spiegel assessed the situation at that time as follows: "Without financial support, the project is doomed to failure." After the parents demonstrated in front of the youth senator's building, financial support was assured and the house at Hedwigstrasse 13 in Berlin-Schöneberg (near the suburb of Friedenau) could be used as a children's home.

In 1975 the general meeting of the children's home dealt with the problem of schooling for children's home groups for the first time. In particular, the recommendation issued by the Education Commission of the German Education Council in 1973 was discussed, which states, among other things, that "Centers for early learning should be set up" and that more pre-school education for disabled children, along with special courses and special hours, should promote integration into mainstream schools . On February 6, 1975, the children's home sent a letter to the nearby Fläming Elementary School, requesting that the first group of compulsory schooling be admitted to pre-school classes from autumn 1975.

In March 1975 the children's home finally submitted a "school concept" to the school authorities in Berlin, which states:

“The basis of the school concept is the insight that a socially integrative upbringing only meets its requirements if it is not limited to individual areas of social gathering (such as kindergarten, leisure activities), but if all environmental experiences can tend to be made together. The aim must of course be to continue this integrative process in school. "

After a few negotiations with the school authorities' committees, the first group from the Friedenau children's home was able to attend the Fläming primary school with the consent of the school management. After the end of the preliminary class, this group was refused further attendance at school with the information that one of the (disabled) children did not fit into the class. The disabled children had to switch to a special facility after the preliminary class. The parents of the children's home continued their efforts and received a commitment from the Senate for the establishment of an integration class at the Fläming primary school for the next year. In 1978, a report by the school psychological counseling center questioned the integration classes because it found that "mentally" disabled children did not belong in a regular school, but in a special school. The parents of the Friedenau children's home obtained a counter-opinion and campaigned with leaflets for the maintenance of the integration classes at the Fläming elementary school and finally obtained approval from the responsible school council in Berlin.

Thanks to their commitment, the parents of the Friedenau children's home succeeded in setting up the first integration classes in Germany at a state school in the Fläming elementary school.

Until 1978 there was “only” the Friedenau Kinderhaus as a day care center in Berlin. The association as the sponsor of the children's home was founded in 1978. The statutes of the association were established on June 2 and November 8, 1978 and entered in the register of associations of the Charlottenburg district court on February 6, 1979 (VR 5891 Nz).

On February 1, 2014, Kinderhaus Friedenau e. V. all of its facilities into the sponsorship of the Schöneberg neighborhood home.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmtraud Schnell: History of school integration / joint learning of pupils with and without disabilities in the FRG since 1970 , page 77.
  2. ↑ Wrong pattern. In: Der Spiegel 48/1972
  3. ↑ Homepage of the children's home

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 18 ″  E