Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation

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Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation
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Legal form: Legal foundation under civil law
Purpose: Nationwide contact point for young mourners
Chair: Martina Münch-Nicolaidis (Chair) and Martina Willer-Schrader
Consist: since 1998
Seat: Munich
Website: www.nicolaidis-youngwings.de

no founder specified

The Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation (formerly: Nicolaidis Foundation) was founded in 1998 and has been a legal foundation under civil law based in Munich since 2014, offering help for young widowed people and their children across Germany. Martina Münch-Nicolaidis is the founder and CEO. The Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation is a non-profit and benevolent organization authorized to issue donation receipts and is a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations .

organization

The Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation was founded in 1998 because of my own dismay. It is the nationwide contact point for grieving children, adolescents and adults up to the age of 49.

The foundation supports adults whose life partner has died, as well as children and young people who have lost a father, mother or both parents. This means that the foundation can look after the entire family and offers various types of help.

With its offers of help, the foundation offers a wide range of opportunities to deal with one's own grief and loss. Those affected are given individual, long-term, resource-oriented advice and support.

Through networking and cooperation with other specialist agencies, the foundation is a partner at the side of young mourners and advocates their needs on a social level. In addition, the foundation shares its many years of experience in grief counseling in the context of training courses and lectures.

history

Martina Münch-Nicolaidis is CEO of the Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation in Munich and winner of the Startsocial Federal Prize in 2002. She initially worked for several years in her parents' company and in various marketing functions in the IT industry. After the death of her husband in 1998 she founded an initiative for half and full orphans and their families, from which the Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation emerged in 2014.

Focus

Help offers for children and young people

  • In the SABU Club , children between the ages of 3 and 9 can get to know each other in a protected educational setting and exchange ideas while playing, romping or doing handicrafts.
  • Since 2014, the foundation has been offering two leisure groups for half and full orphans aged 9 to 12 and 12 to 17 years. With the help of creative and experiential methods, there is the opportunity to deal with the topics of dying, death and mourning.
  • The YoungWings online advice center is aimed at children and young people between the ages of 12 and 21 who are grieving for a loved one. It offers the opportunity to find support anonymously and free of charge around the clock. The Bavarian State Minister Emilia Müller took over the patronage for this in 2014 . National player Thomas Müller has been an ambassador for the YoungWings online advice center since 2011 .
  • The grief self-help group YoungChange offers young adults up to 27 years of age the opportunity to talk about their loss and related issues in a secure setting every two weeks. YoungChange is aimed at people who have lost one or both parents.
  • Half and full orphans between 14 and 27 years of age who are looking for support in finding a career can contact the STARTSmart career advice center. STARTSmart offers individual support with career orientation, the application process and the search for a suitable subject, internship or training position. Business coaches accompany and advise the young people concerned with their career or secondary school decision.
  • The Sebastian Education Scholarship has also been awarded since 2017 . This is aimed at half and full orphans between the ages of 17 and 27 with German citizenship within the whole of Germany. The funding project, unique in its focus, is intended to provide young adults with financial and non-material support to help them realize their own professional prospects. The educational scholarship focuses less on the previous academic achievements than on the individual situation of each individual as well as their school and professional development opportunities. Measures are encouraged that can contribute to professional and personal development. The specific amount of the scholarship is based on the financial situation and the individual plans of the individual applicants.
  • In order to give as many young people as possible access to the foundation's offers, the foundation regularly organizes supraregional creative projects. With YoungCreatives-Film , the foundation is breaking new ground in grief counseling. Half and full orphans between the ages of 12 and 27 create their very own one-minute short film together with experts from the film and media industry. All films will then be presented to a prominent jury. The aim of the project is to support young half and full orphans as well as the nationwide exchange of contacts between those affected. In addition, the project makes it possible to be introduced to new media in a playful way with creative programs without pressure to perform. The highlight of every short film project is the presentation of the YoungCreatives Film Awards. In the presence of a prominent jury (most recently Max Wiedemann , Senta Berger , Götz Otto , Simon Verhoeven , Lucas Reiber and Kurt Schalk) the short films will be presented to the public for the first time and a jury and audience award will be given to the young filmmakers.

Help for adults

  • Surviving parents who have questions about how to deal with their children after the death of their partner can take advantage of personal and telephone counseling. This offer also applies to other caregivers of the children.
  • Many young mourners find it helpful to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences with a bereavement counselor in a confidential and reliable manner. In a joint conversation, the individual grief can be reflected and solutions for a successful further life can be developed.
  • In addition to personal grief counseling, the foundation offers grief counseling by telephone for young mourners outside of Munich . As part of regular telephone appointments with one of the grief counselors, mourners are accompanied in their personal mourning process.
  • Participation in a mourning group can provide support after the death of a loved one and support mourners in being able to cope with the incomprehensible a little better.
  • The Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation also offers a monthly alumni meeting for former participants in the mourning groups and for personal or telephone support .
  • In order to meet the needs of affected men, the foundation offers the so-called Nicolaidis-Treff for men . Here men have the opportunity to get to know other people affected and to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.
  • Organizational, legal and financial difficulties are often associated with the death of a partner. The help of experts is usually indispensable. The foundation arranges contacts to lawyers who are available for an initial free orientation interview.
  • Via the Friends of the Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation e. V. , in addition to support and advice, those affected can receive support in the form of individual funding.
  • The training program includes seminars on the subject of grief counseling and grief coping. The establishment of new self-help groups is accompanied by advice and training for the group leaders.

Awards

2002

2007

2008

  • The Nicolaidis YoungWings Foundation has received an order from the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs to set up a nationwide aid network for grieving and traumatized children and young people.
  • Headliner in the “Help for Helpers” campaign by the Federal Minister of Finance, Peer Steinbrück

2011

2012

  • Presentation of the Ethica Impuls Award 2012
  • Award of the Social Prize 2012 by the Bavarian State Foundation for the online advice center Young Wings

2014

  • Martina Münch-Nicolaidis becomes an ambassador for Startsocial Munich
  • Martina Münch-Nicolaidis is appointed to the circle of the Körber network civil society "The Movers".

2015

  • Winspiration Award

2016

  • Martina Münch-Nicolaidis receives the Bavarian Order of Merit
  • Inge Gabert Prize of the AWO Upper Bavaria

2017

  • Martina Münch-Nicolaidis' appointment to the Senate of Economics

Cooperations

Since it was established in 1998, the foundation has been expanding its range of services for young mourners and building a nationwide network. The cooperation partners include a. the coordination office aftercare, victim and relatives assistance (NOAH) of the federal government, the trauma outpatient clinics of the universities, the Tabaluga Children's Foundation and the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs. In 2004, after the tsunami disaster, she was entrusted with the long-term care of those affected from Bavaria. The foundation was also commissioned by the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs to counteract the lack of offers for grieving children and children traumatized by their loss. This is where the online advice service YoungWings can come in and quickly and efficiently support children and young people in the event of any future disasters.

support

The projects are promoted by political figures such as Johanna Wanka , Federal Minister for Education and Research a. D., Emilia Müller , Bavarian State Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Integration a. D. and Peer Steinbrück , Federal Minister a. D. supports. But numerous celebrities, including Max Wiedemann , Andrea Sawatzki , Funda Vanroy, Timothy Peach , Christian Berkel , Tina Kaiser , Vanessa Jung and Mickey Monroe, stand up for the interests of the foundation.

Hollywood star Zac Efron supported the online platform YoungWings in 2010 and celebrated the German premieres of his film Miraculously in favor of YoungWings.

The national soccer player Thomas Müller has been an ambassador for the YoungWings online advice center since 2011. Public appearances as well as sporting and creative activities help to motivate the children in care and to give them courage and perspectives again. Among other things, the soccer player organized charity auctions before Christmas in 2016 for the benefit of YoungWings, which were carried out via the charity auction platform United Charity .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When parents die prematurely. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ Claudia Dinges: Nicolaidis Young Wings Foundation: Where young people are allowed to mourn | Sunday paper - 360 degrees evangelical. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Federal winner startsocial 2002 - Nicolaidis Stiftung gGmbH. Startsocial competition website. ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Dear Personalities 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women . Retrieved October 15, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zukunftsministerium.bayern.de
  5. ↑ Eva Thöne : Ethica Impuls Award 2012: “It's not about heroic deeds” . Article on the website of Ethica Rationalis e. V., October 24, 2012. Accessed July 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Prize winners 2012 of the Bavarian State Foundation: Not everyday achievements . Bayerische GemeindeZeitung, December 19, 2012. Accessed December 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ German premiere of the film "As if by a miracle" - teen star Zac Efron helps grieving children . Message on bild.de , September 15, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
  8. ↑ Müller becomes an ambassador for 'YoungWings' ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Message on the website of FC Bayern Munich , June 20, 2011.
  9. ↑ The starting signal for the YoungWings Charity Christmas Auction, esmuellert.de, accessed on April 12, 2018.