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The Leinerstift e.V. is a diaconal institution and a free provider of child, youth and family aid based in Großefehn .
deals
Around 400 young people and their families are cared for in a largely decentralized system. The Leinerstift is a non-profit organization. The following care services are offered at 14 locations in the Weser-Ems region:
- Socio-educational residential groups
- Remedial residential groups
- Five-day residential group
- Clearing house with emergency room
- Educational agencies
- Day groups
- Flexibly organized help (FloH)
- Therapeutic specialist service
- Special school with a focus on "Emotional and Social Development"
- FIBUS - Flexible, intensive, needs-based support system at the school
history
The Leinerstift is inextricably linked with the person and work of Pastor Johann Heinrich Leiner, to whom it owes its creation and whose name it bears. Johann Heinrich Leiner (1830–1868) was the first pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Mittegroßefehn . In close contact with Johann Hinrich Wichern , the founder of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg and one of the founders of the Inner Mission in Germany, he founded a poor house in his community in 1864. There was great poverty in the meager Fehn communities: families broke up, children were orphans at an early age, men were homeless. According to Pastor Leiner, these people should not only receive money to alleviate their misery, but also receive board and lodging in the poor house. At the same time he wanted to develop new perspectives for their existence together with them. However, he soon realized that housing adults and children together did not meet the needs of young people. Education was an important concern to him, and so in 1865 he founded a commission (today: Association) for the establishment of the "Ostfriesischer Rettungshaus" in Großefehn. The house was officially opened on November 10, 1868. The new house had space for 50 children to live, study and work in it. By Christmas 1868, 24 children had already been admitted. In memory of its founder, the East Frisian rescue house was later renamed "Leinerstift". 100 years later, the Leinerstift set the first milestone for its future development as a modern youth welfare facility with the extensive structural expansion of the old "rescue house".
chronology
The Johann Heinrich Leiner School was inaugurated in 1969. Founded as a home special school, it now also accepts external students with increased needs.
In 1980 the first family residential group was founded in Oldenburg. The old basic idea of bringing up the family from Wichern was combined with the reorientation of the Leinerstift as a youth welfare center with decentralized help facilities. In 1982 the painter and wood workshop began training young people from the Leinerstift and the entire East Frisian region.
In 1991 the first day group started work in Emden. The new help offer should support young people and their parents in solving family and upbringing crises without the problem child being placed in a home. A year later, the first remedial residential group was opened in Wiesmoor for young people with special needs. In 1993 the flexibly organized aid (FloH) was launched. With different forms of help, they are geared towards close cooperation with parents and / or intensive outpatient individual care.
In 1994 a partnership began between the Polish rehabilitation facility "Zaklad Poprawczy i Schronisko dla Nieletnich w Raciborzu" and the Leinerstift.
In 2002, the first children in the education center were accepted who had to live separately from their families in the medium or long term. Two years later, the 5-day group “Fokus” began with the home education of young people whose return to their parents' home is to be encouraged through intensive family work. In 2006 the therapeutic education and psychological service became the therapeutic specialist service. The work of the “clearing group” began in 2007 with the emergency room. Here youth welfare offices quickly receive well-founded statements on the situation of young people and their families as well as a recommendation for further measures based on the identified need for help.
The day group in Cloppenburg and the living group in Aurich (new name "Akzente") moved to new and more functional locations in 2007. In the same year the subsidiary “Allerhand” was founded with the aim of providing day-structuring measures and professional training for young people.
In 2008, an office for flexibly organized help (FloH) was set up on the island of Borkum, while the Leinerstift in the island school took over the school social work. The “Dorfladen Mitte” celebrated its opening on August 12, 2010 as a grocery and second-hand local supplier in Mittegroßefehn (“shop-in-shop model”).
The Johann Heinrich Leiner School founded a branch in Leer in 2010.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 22 " N , 7 ° 34 ′ 49.1" E