Pfennigparade Foundation
The Pfennigparade Foundation is a Munich rehabilitation center for people with physical disabilities. For more than 65 years she has been committed to inclusion and participation in the areas of education, work, living, leisure and health. Together with 17 subsidiaries and a development association, the foundation forms the Pfennigparade group.
It is headquartered in Munich in the Schwabing district . The name is derived from the US charity March of Dimes .
history
After the Second World War, a citizens' initiative for the benefit of polio-paralyzed people was founded in Munich , which was registered as an association in 1952. As the first major campaign, the association took over the costs of vaccination against polio for financially weak patients in Bavaria in 1956. The following year, the association organized the International Poliomyelitis Conference in Munich. In the following years, the cooperation with Schwabing Hospital was intensified and aftercare for polio patients was taken over. The Contergan scandal in 1960 widened the circle of people with disabilities cared for by the Pfennigparade.
In 1961, encouraged by the association, Bavaria was the first federal state to introduce active vaccination against polio. In 1962, the successful brick- and- mortar fundraising campaign by the Münchner Abendzeitung and Bayerischer Rundfunk began , which made it possible to finance a new building very quickly. In 1969 a secondary school for students with physical disabilities was approved.
In the 1970s, a large number of new offers arose, including a dormitory for artificially ventilated people, schools, a kindergarten, barrier-free apartments and a workshop for people with physical disabilities. In 1979 the Pfennigparade Association set up the Pfennigparade Foundation.
In the years that followed, the Pfennigparade Foundation expanded its range of services. The workshop for people with physical disabilities also opened branches outside of Munich in the early 1980s. New support offers arose such as Perspective GmbH in 1991, a support center with housing for people with complex disabilities, or in 1995 the conductive support for children with spasticity, from which Phoenix GmbH grew in 2001. In 1999, there was an inclusion company, SIGMETA GmbH, in which 165 employees with and without disabilities now provide IT and commercial services together.
In 2006, Pfennigparade and three other companies founded the AtemReich GmbH children's home, in which ventilated children and infants live up to school age. In 2012 the Pfennigparade celebrated its 60th anniversary.
The Pfennigparade Foundation with its 17 subsidiaries has developed in the course of its history into a social group that offers a wide range of funding in the areas of education, work and employment, medicine and therapy, living and leisure.
Structure of the foundation
The foundation is headed by an 11-member board of trustees. It includes leading personalities from medicine, education, politics and business. The foundation is managed by two board members: Dr. Jochen Walter and Ernst-Albrecht von Moreau. The Pfennigparade Foundation has 17 subsidiaries and one association. All subsidiaries are non-profit.
Areas of activity
In the Pfennigparade and its non-profit subsidiaries, people with physical disabilities receive professional support, promotion and advice in the following areas. In addition, the Pfennigparade offers a multi-layered basis for participation and, as an active promoter of an inclusive society, creates encounters between people with and without disabilities.
education
The educational area of the Pfennigparade includes kindergartens and schools, which are now attended by just as many children without as with disabilities. In recent years, more inclusive children's homes have been added and the employees of the two funding institutions and inclusive schools have been able to bring their specialized special and curative educational know-how into the inclusive settings of the children's homes and thus also into the educational concepts.
- Ernst-Barlach-Schulen GmbH: The Ernst-Barlach-Schulen GmbH consist of three inclusive schools, including a primary and secondary school, a secondary school and a technical college. All schools are officially recognized. The curricula and examination regulations apply to them as at state schools. The schools also include a day care center for therapeutic education, a day care center, a kindergarten and a school preparatory facility (SVE).
- Phoenix Schools and Daycare Centers - Conductive Support Center: At Phoenix GmbH, children and adolescents with disorders of the central nervous system are supported according to András Pető's conductive support system. The conductive support center includes a school preparatory facility (SVE), children's homes, a primary and secondary school and a boarding school.
Living
The housing offer is geared towards the most diverse needs. There are around 200 barrier-free rental apartments on the Pfennigparade site in Munich-Schwabing. For people who cannot (yet) live independently, the foundation offers communal living. The residential groups are spread across the individual Munich districts, so that the children, young people and adults living there are integrated into the social space. Outpatient assisted living is of interest to residents who want to prepare for independent living.
Special housing offers for people with acquired brain damage and for residents with severe and multiple disabilities complete the offer.
The "Forum am Luitpold", which opened in 2016, offers accommodation for people with and without physical disabilities, an integrated children's house (Sternstundenhaus), a doctor and therapy practice and many public community facilities.
- Kinderhaus AtemReich GmbH: The Pfennigparade is a partner in the Kinderhaus' AtemReich. Severely handicapped ventilated children are cared for there from a few months old to school age.
- Perspective GmbH: Funding facility and living area for severely disabled people and people with multiple disabilities. There are around 60 places in the living area, including an outdoor living area, a living area with a day structure and dormitories.
- REVERSY GmbH: Rehabilitation of brain injured and physically handicapped people: REVERSY GmbH offers housing and support services that are tailored to the needs of people with acquired brain damage.
- Pfennigparade Vivo GmbH: Around 200 children, adolescents and adults live in the residential groups, which are distributed decentrally in the Munich city area.
- Ambulante Dienst GmbH: The outpatient service looks after around 90 people with physical disabilities. Most of them live in the handicapped accessible apartments on the grounds of the Pfennigparade Foundation.
Medicine and therapy
Associated medical, therapeutic and advisory services are affiliated with the Pfennigparade Foundation. The offer includes a medical care center (MVZ), a medical center for adults with disabilities (MZEB), two therapy practices as well as therapeutic offers for children and adolescents from the Ernst Barlach Schools and the Phoenix. In partly inclusive practices, people with and without disabilities are treated.
- Medical care center (MVZ): There is general practitioner-internal and physical-rehabilitation medical care for all public and private patients.
- Medical Center for Adults with Disabilities (MZEB): The center provides specialist medical care for people with multiple disabilities and focuses on out-of-hospital ventilation.
- Therapy practices: The practice at Petuelpark is mainly visited by rehabilitation customers such as workshop employees and residents as well as employees of the Pfennigparade at the Barlachstrasse location. The therapy practice at Luitpold looks after adults and children as well as external patients. Depending on the time of school hours or working hours, physiotherapy, logo or occupational therapy can be used, for example.
Advice and support
An important complementary area of the foundation's work is advice and support. These include social, psychological, pastoral and therapeutic services. In the counseling and social service, people with physical disabilities and their relatives receive information and support in social, economic and legal issues as well as in questions about admission to a workshop, housing options and school offers.
Job offers and services of the workshops
For the people at the Pfennigparade Foundation, work often means much more than a steady income. Work gives structure, creates self-confidence and creates meaning and community. For people with disabilities in particular, the workplace is also an important place for meeting colleagues. Here they can shape, actively contribute and feel that they are involved.
From simple manual work to IT services, the Pfennigparade offers every disabled person a job, depending on their skills. High-quality work and products from the fields of IT and technology, commercial processing, scanning and publishing as well as craft and art are part of the range of services.
- Perspective GmbH: Funding facility and living area for people with severe physical disabilities and multiple disabilities: Here 91 adults with complex disabilities receive a meaningful daily structure and employment in work groups.
- SIGMETA GmbH: SIGMETA GmbH is an inclusion company in which employees with and without disabilities jointly provide IT and commercial services for customers.
- The VUB Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft für Behindertenwerkstätten GmbH: The VUB is the holding company for workshops for people with disabilities of the Pfennigparade group and offers a unique workshop concept.
- PSG Programmier-Service GmbH: PSG GmbH provides a wide range of services in IT and technology, from contact centers to expert desks for highly complex software.
- BKG Büro-Kommunikation GmbH: The portfolio primarily includes operational commercial support processes in accounting and purchasing as well as services in the areas of data management and project management.
- WKM workshop for the physically handicapped GmbH Munich: The workshop has offers for people with disabilities and autism spectrum disorder in the arts and crafts sector (painting, ceramics, chair wickerwork, carpentry etc.), commercial services and gastronomy.
- VSB Verlags- und Sortimentsbuchbinderei GmbH: Direct marketing, packaging, lettershop, document archiving and work in manual binding are areas in which VSB GmbH offers job opportunities.
Leisure, sport and culture
Affiliated to the Pfennigparade are a public library, a cultural forum, an adult education center and the inclusive book café BEANS and BOOKS.
Since 2016, the island is being built directly on the Isar an inclusive recreational area, called: I nklusive N atur-, S port-based and e rlebnis L andschaft. It is a meeting point in the country for a colorful, barrier-free and limitless coexistence of people with and without disabilities. The social space project initiated by the Pfennigparade Foundation is supported by Sternstunden eV and the charity campaign of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.
Numbers (2020)
- 80 services and facilities at 37 locations
- 2,400 places on offer in the areas of education, living and work
- 3,200 patients in medical and therapeutic outpatient clinics
- 900 children and young people in children's homes and schools
- 90 people in the Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) and Federal Voluntary Service (BFD)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c PERSPEKTIVE GmbH - Funding facility and living area for severely disabled people and people with multiple disabilities
- ↑ a b Phönix GmbH Conductive Support Center
- ↑ Ernst Barlach Schools GmbH
- ↑ Kinderhaus AtemReich GmbH
- ↑ REVERSY GmbH - rehabilitation of brain injured and physically handicapped people
- ^ Stationary residential groups GmbH
- ↑ Outpatient Services GmbH
- ↑ SIGMETA Informationsverarbeitung und Technik GmbH
- ^ VUB administration and investment company for disabled workshops GmbH
- ↑ PSG Programming Service GmbH
- ↑ BKG Büro-Kommunikation GmbH
- ^ WKM workshop for the physically handicapped GmbH Munich
- ↑ VSB Publishing and Assortment Bookbinding GmbH
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 37.3 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 38.1" E