District mother

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The district mothers are a specific form of integration support project for parents and families. As part of the project, district mothers visit the families at home. Among other things, they give them easier access to information and advice.

Concept and tasks

District mothers mostly have their own migration background and are multipliers who provide other mothers with a migration background with information material on the topics of upbringing, education and health during a set number of home visits.

The goals of the district mothers are:

  • Promotion of language skills in children and parents
  • Encouraging and sensitizing parents to actively exercise their responsibility to bring up their children
  • Presentation of the work of day-care centers ("day care centers") and advertising for early day care centers
  • Providing specific help and information for families in the neighborhood
  • Promote communication and interaction between parents and children
  • Strengthening the self-confidence of the parents in dealing with the local educational institutions

What is essential is the low threshold of the offer. The aim of the district mothers is to contact families that are otherwise difficult to reach and to provide them with important knowledge on the above-mentioned topics. This is why district mothers often come from the same cultural area as their clients, speak the same language and often live in the same district. The work of the district mothers also requires a long-term relationship with their clients.

There are different forms of funding for district mothers. This is mostly done on a temporary project basis. However, since 2013, the state of Berlin has been employing district mothers based on the TV-L as part of its integration pilot concept. In no case will the families visited be charged for the cost of the visit.

Development and dissemination

The first district mother project in Germany was created in 2006 in Berlin-Neukölln, based on the example of the backpack parent education and language support program for migrant families from Rotterdam (Netherlands). In 2009 the Diakonisches Werk Neukölln Oberspree applied for trademark protection for the methodical concept of its project district mothers Neukölln. There are now imitation projects in other Berlin districts, in Essen, Vienna, Dortmund and Hanover. There are also numerous other multiplier projects with different orientations, including "district fathers", the MiMi project - "With migrants for migrants" of the Hanover Ethnomedical Center and several so-called "backpack projects", in which the concept of home visits with ( in a backpack) prepared information material is used.

According to press reports, district mothers financed by the Federal Employment Agency earned 1,105 euros per month for 30 hours a week in 2014, which corresponded to the minimum wage . Around 100 women protested in Berlin in 2014 when 57 district mothers should no longer be financed in order to instead spend the money on training other district mothers.

There are also district mothers in Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Qualification

District mothers are usually trained for their work. In the training, the content and handling of the information material is learned. In the case of the trademarked project district mother Neukölln, the qualification takes six months and includes ten topics from the areas of upbringing, education and health.

The topics in detail are, for example with district mothers in Neukölln: "Day care center and school, language development and language support (the family and German language), development phases of the child (physical, motor, psychosocial aspects of development), healthy nutrition, health care, Addiction prevention , sexual development and sex education , education without violence, dealing with the media, environmental education , sport and exercise, children's rights, help for families in the neighborhood, prevention of accidents with children ”.

Differentiation from other forms of integration support

Linguistically, the word can be understood to mean a mother from the district, or a mother who is there for the district. If necessary, both apply. District mothers are among the multiplier projects within the framework of the integration support activities. In this way, they can be distinguished from sponsorships, community interpreters and integration guides. However, they are occasionally equated with the latter, although - depending on the concept - there are significant differences in the task. These lie primarily in the content and scope of their training, in the home visits provided for in the concept and in the availability of the information material described on the topics of upbringing, education and health with an educational and preventive intention.

Literature and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Diakonisches Werk Neukölln-Oberspree: Short description of the pilot project: “District mothers in Neukölln”. 2007, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Koch, Liv-Berit: Evaluation of the model project "District mothers in Neukölln". 2009, p. 8 , accessed December 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Leptien, Kai / Kapphan, Andreas: A state framework program for integration guides . In: Social Extra . No. 6 , 2014, p. 29 .
  4. ^ Liv-Berit Koch: Evaluation of the pilot project “District mothers in Neukölln”. 2009, p. 12 , accessed June 4, 2018 .
  5. ^ District mothers in Kreuzberg - Diakonie Berlin Stadtmitte. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  6. ^ District mothers . In: Mehrgenerationenhaus Essen eV Accessed on December 2, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Grätzelparents. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  8. ^ A b Diakonie Dortmund: Project "District Mothers & District Fathers". Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b District Mothers and District Fathers - hannover.de. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Administrator: MiMi - With Migrants For Migrants. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  11. ↑ u. a. Friedrichshafen backpack project. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  12. ^ A b Migration Project: District mothers fight for their jobs. In: www.bz-berlin.de. October 31, 2014, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  13. ^ Diakoniewerk Simeon: District mothers in Neukölln. Retrieved June 4, 2018 .
  14. ^ District mothers . In: buergergesellschaft.de. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Lietz, Roman: Professionalization and Quality Assurance in Integration Work Criteria for the Implementation of Integration Pilot Projects . 1st edition. Budrich UniPress, Leverkusen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86388-754-4 , p. 46 .
  16. ^ Gesemann, Frank: An overview of integration pilot projects in Germany - concepts, fields of application and financing . Ed .: Commissioner of the Berlin Senate for Integration and Migration. Berlin 2015, p. 47 .
  17. ↑ Khan-Zvornicanin, Meggi / Koch, Liv-Berit / Schaffranke, Dorte: ... and now I am an integration pilot . Ed .: Commissioner for Integration and Migration of the State of Berlin. Berlin, S. 5 .
  18. ↑ Lietz, Roman: Professionalization and Quality Assurance in Integration Work Criteria for the Implementation of Integration Pilot Projects . 1st edition. Budrich UniPress, Leverkusen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86388-754-4 , p. 37 .