Klemens Richters

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Klemens Richters (born December 15, 1950 in Legden ) is a German graduate social worker .

Career

Richters is married and has four children. From 1988 to 2017 he was the head and managing director of the St. Mauritz child and youth welfare service in Münster. Under his leadership, for the first time in Germany, all educational specialists were certified as trauma educators in a three-year training and qualification program .

Richters is a member of social policy networks, was a board member of the Federal Association of Catholic Institutions and Services of Educational Aids (BVkE) from 2004 to 2018 and headed the specialist committees “Education and Educational Aids” and “Specialists in Educational Aids”. He studied social pedagogy and social work at the Münster University of Applied Sciences from 1972 to 1976 and headed the Ludwigsheim in Münster from 1981 to 1988. In 1982 he founded the “Youth Training Center Münster” (JAZ) with inter-company workshops in which unemployed girls and boys learned various state-recognized training occupations. As an adventure pedagogue with authorization to guide sailing ships, he developed sustainable adventure education concepts and sailed the North and Baltic Seas with girls and boys from his facilities on traditional ships.

In the summer of 1988, Richters took over the management of the facility "Children's Home and Orphanage on St. Mauritz", which was founded in 1842 by the priest and order donor Eduard Michelis as the first poor orphanage in Münster. From its founding until 1988, only women religious from the community of the Sisters of Divine Providence ran the institution. Richters continued to develop the children's home with great dedication, and in 2010 it was renamed the “Child and Youth Welfare Center Sankt Mauritz” with 200 places for children, adolescents and parents, who are looked after by 180 specialists (social pedagogues, curative pedagogues and psychologists). True to the guiding principle developed under his leadership, “... that children and young people succeed in life”, his actions are geared towards realizing sustainable future prospects for every child, for every young person, for every family. With participatory concepts and the certified training of all skilled workers to become trauma pedagogues, Richters succeeded in developing the children's home into the first German child and youth welfare facility with a trauma pedagogical concept. Richters worked with the IKJ Mainz - Institute for Child and Youth Welfare - for the scientific evaluation .

In 2017 Richters retired and handed over management to his successor Michael Kaiser.

As part of his retirement, Richters was committed to unaccompanied minor foreigners and in 2018 and 2019 he led qualification courses for specialists in educational assistance in Augsburg and Ludwigshafen for the IKJ in Mainz .

Publications

  • K. Richters: The adult victims. In: social magazine. Vol. 5th issue 6/1980. Weinheim
  • K. Richters: Protection of minors from the home. In: Jugendwohl. Issue 7/1986. Freiburg.
  • K. Richters: The runaway children and young people run away from homes and families. In: FORUM youth welfare. AGJ Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare, Issue 4/1986, page 28 ff.
  • A home responds to youth unemployment . In: Caritas yearbook 1987 . 1986, ISSN  0069-0570 , pp. 53–57 (literature description in Index Theologicus for download or search query Caritas Library [accessed on August 17, 2020]).
  • K. Richters: Sailing with socio-culturally disadvantaged young people. In: experiential education. Volume 3, 1995.
  • K. Richters: Help for children in crisis situations. In: Informationsdienst DGgKV eV Trade journal of the former German Society against Child Abuse and Neglect. 1998
  • K. Richters: A home for children - and their parents. In: social magazine. 11/2000. Weinheim
  • Education - (not) an order for educational assistance ?! (= Federal Association of Catholic Institutions and Services of Educational Aids eV BVkE [Hrsg.]: Contributions to Educational Aid . Volume 35 ). BVkE, Freiburg 2009.
  • Trauma education . In: Michael Macsenaere, Klaus Esser, Eckhart Knab, Stephan Hiller (Hrsg.): Handbook of help for education . Lambertus Verlag, Freiburg, Br. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7841-2121-5 .
  • Taking in a foster child well prepared . In: New Caritas . Year 2015, No. 14 . Freiburg July 22, 2015 ( article text ).
  • K. Richters: Processing failed care - therapeutic offers for children from failed care relationships. In: Michael Macsenaere et al. (Hrsg.): Pflegekinderhilfe. Between profession and family. Lambertus, Freiburg 2017, pp. 196-206
  • K. Richters: trauma education as a core competence in inpatient youth welfare. In: Our youth. 3/2017. Munich

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  1. ↑ a b c Karin Höller: He will also take off with kids in the future. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . January 2, 2017, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Good professionalism in an intercultural context. (PDF) 2018, accessed on August 17, 2020 (flyer for the event of the Federal Association of Catholic Institutions and Services for Educational Aids (BVkE), see the description of the speaker Klemens Richter)
  3. ^ History. St. Mauritz Children and Youth Welfare, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Mission statement. St. Mauritz Children and Youth Welfare, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  5. ^ Lambertus Verlag GmbH: Foster children aids - Lambertus Verlag GmbH. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate social pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Legden