Santa Claus care
The Nikolauspflege is a foundation founded in 1856 , which offers blind and visually impaired people assistance and promotes their school and professional education as well as social and professional participation . The church foundation under civil law is a member of the Diakonisches Werk .
With the business areas “School Education”, “Vocational Education”, “Adult Area Baden-Württemberg”, “Work and Employment” as well as several subsidiaries and holdings, Nikolauspflege is a competence center for blind, visually impaired and multiply disabled people of all ages in Germany.
They either visit the educational and support facilities, operations and workshops, advisory and regional offices, boarding schools and dormitories of the Nikolauspflege, which are located at several locations in Baden-Württemberg , or they become close to their home through outpatient services of the Nikolauspflege and in cooperation with regular institutions accompanied.
history
The Nikolauspflege was founded on August 13, 1856 by Crown Princess Olga, who later became Queen Olga of Württemberg . At first it was a dwarf school for blind children, which was run by a private teacher in a residential building in Stuttgart. Due to the high influx, the Am Kräherwald area, which was outside the city limits at that time, was created for 80 to 100 residents between 1906 and 1908. By the mid-1950s, the number of occupants doubled again. In the second half of the twentieth century, new extensions and additions followed on this site. On the threshold of the 21st century, the Nikolauspflege reacted to changed social demands on a contemporary handicapped system by dismantling centralized structures and expanding geographically with the new leitmotif “Seeing people”. Today, Nikolauspflege sees itself as a modern social enterprise and competence center for blind, visually impaired and multiply disabled people.
Facilities
- Special educational advice center, Stuttgart
- Betty Hirsch School, Stuttgart (see Betty Hirsch )
- Tilly Lahnstein School / Vocational Schools, Stuttgart
- House on Dornbuschweg, Stuttgart
- Queen Olga School, Heidenheim
- Vocational Training Center (see Vocational Training Center ) Stuttgart
- Qualification Center for Vocational Rehabilitation, Stuttgart
- NIKO vision center
- Nikolauspflege Haus des Blindenhandwerk, Esslingen and Stuttgart (Nikolauspflege Haus des Blindenhandwerk non-profit company)
- Limeshof, Welzheim
- Paul and Charlotte Kniese House, Weinheim (Nikolauspflege GmbH)
- Franz Mersi House, Mannheim (Nikolauspflege GmbH)
- NIKOWerk non-profit GmbH - integration company, Stuttgart
- SFZ Chemnitz, Chemnitz
Santa Claus care in numbers
(As of 03/2017)
Supervised people
Foundation, endowment
"Early Childhood and School Education" division
- Attendance at an education and support program: 403
- Accommodation in living area: 78
- Outpatient benefits / open aids: 352
"Vocational Education" division
- Attendance at an educational and support program: 200
- Accommodation in living area: 150
- Outpatient benefits / open aids: 223
Business area "Integrated living and working"
- Attendance at an education and support program: 202
- Accommodation in living area: 153
- Outpatient benefits / open aids: 81
"Crafts and Employment" division
- Visits to educational and care facilities: 55
Subsidiaries and investments
- Integration company NIKOWerk non-profit GmbH: 38
- SFZ Förderzentrum gGmbH in Chemnitz and Königswusterhausen total: 475
Number of employees
- Nikolauspflege Foundation: 739 people
- Nikolauspflege GmbH: 109 people
- Nikolauspflege House of the Blind Crafts non-profit GmbH: 23
- NIKOWerk GmbH: 51 people
- SFZ Förderzentrum gGmbH: 270
See also
- Education for the blind and for the visually impaired
- Vocational training center
- List of schools for the blind
- Alternative school