The Good Hand Foundation

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Building in the entrance area of ​​the Die Gute Hand foundation
Chapel and residential buildings

The Die Gute Hand foundation is a church foundation . The head office is in Biesfeld in the municipality of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district . The foundation's facilities and services employ an average of 650 people.

The Die Gute Hand foundation is the sponsor of seven child, youth and integration aid facilities and services. Its purpose is the care, education and treatment for children, adolescents and adults who are affected by emotional and social disorders, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder ( ADD, ADHD), autism disorders, eating disorders, speech impairments, attachment disorders and post- traumatic stress disorders . This goes hand in hand with family and relatives work.

history

The founder of the Die Gute Hand foundation was Jakob Holl , who, as a Catholic priest, had been director of the television station for the dioceses in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1955 . He used his camera to take pictures and make films on his travels, which brought him additional income. He took this money in hand and had the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia approve a foundation for the Die Gute Hand foundation on October 26, 1961. He then acquired a 33,000 m² piece of land in Biesfeld and began further planning and work. But he did not live to see the opening on October 1, 1968, because he died on July 9, 1966. All of his inheritance went to the Die Gute Hand foundation .

On a trip to Africa, Holl was able to meet the Dominican Missionary Sisters of St. Win the hearts of Jesus for sending young sisters from Bavaria to Biesfeld, if the care of the children and young people would start there. At Pentecost 1968 they moved into the building of the foundation, which was still unfinished at the time. For almost 40 years since Holl's death, the former NRW State Minister Konrad Grundmann has chaired the foundation . In 1969 he commissioned the prelate Dieter Freudenberg as director (managing director) with the overall management of the facility, who kept this task until 1979. Heinrich Hölzl was his successor. He was succeeded as chairman of the Grundmann Foundation in 2000 by the Cologne prelate Karl Heinz Vogt.

Organizational structure of the management

Since July 1, 2011 there has been a new organizational structure for the management of the foundation. At the highest level is a board of trustees as a supervisory body made up of seven honorary members, to which the board of directors, made up of two full-time employees, is subordinate. The chairman of the board is also the spokesman for the board and the pedagogical director. Another member of the board is responsible for the commercial management.

Wooden figures in the entrance area of ​​the facility

Facilities and services

  • The special educational children's village Biesfeld was opened in 1968. It is the main institution of the Die Gute Hand foundation . In family living groups, outdoor living groups, curative educational living groups and therapeutic intensive groups, children and adolescents from toddlers to around 21 years of age are looked after.
  • In the House Hermann-Josef Cologne in Cologne downtown intensive youth group homes are located. Young people between 14 and 18 years of age are looked after around the clock and prepared for future independence according to their age and level of development. Topics include live together - curative education support - provide intensive school - build social skills .
  • In the Haus Agathaberg residential association in the Wipperfürth church village of Agathaberg , young adults with autism spectrum disorders are cared for on an outpatient or inpatient basis as required .
  • The Nazareth Leverkusen house in Schlebusch is aimed at children and young people between the ages of 6 and 21. The aim is to create the necessary conditions for every child and every young person so that they can later return to their families or shape their lives independently as young adults.
  • The special school Die Gute Hand has three locations in Biesfeld, Leverkusen and Cologne. The special school with a special focus on emotional and social development is a state-recognized substitute school.
  • The outpatient services based in Bergisch Gladbach advise and look after families in their immediate living environment.
  • The Flex-Fernschule NRW prepares young people who for various reasons do not learn in a school, using distance learning to prepare for the secondary school leaving certificate.

Others

  • In the family center advice center Die Gute Hand in Biesfeld, parents and children from the Rheinisch-Bergisch district are advised.
  • Therapeutic riding takes place at the Meierhof in Kürten . Handling horses helps to heal people with disabilities through vaulting and riding as well as hippotherapy and sport.

literature

  • Claus Boelen-Theile: The priest's benevolent look at his work. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Gute Hand pays tribute to Jakob Holl , in: Bergische Landeszeitung of September 11, 2018, number 211, page 34

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Gute Hand Foundation: Annual Report 2014. p. 85 in the brochure, p. 44 in the PDF , accessed on March 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Help for children's souls. in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 2008, pp. 87 ff., ISBN 978-3-87314-429-3
  3. ↑ Organizational structure for the management retrieved on March 13, 2016
  4. ↑ Curative Education Children's Village Biesfeld, accessed on February 28, 2016
  5. ^ Haus Hermann-Josef Cologne, accessed on February 28, 2016
  6. ↑ Wohnverbund Haus Agathaberg accessed on February 28, 2016
  7. ^ Haus Nazareth Leverkusen accessed on February 28, 2016
  8. ↑ Förderschule Die Gute Hand, accessed on February 28, 2016
  9. ↑ Outpatient Services, accessed on February 28, 2016
  10. ↑ Flex-Fernschule NRW. February 21, 2013, accessed on March 30, 2020 (German).
  11. ^ Family Center Die Gute Hand, accessed on February 28, 2016
  12. ↑ Meierhof Riding Therapy Center accessed on March 2, 2016

Web links

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