Mariaberg Youth services

Mariaberg-Youth-services-Mariaberg.pdf

YOUTH WORK IN COMMUNITIES

The law

Open youth work offers are offered by community-based services and are based on Book VIII of the Social Code of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a municipal task and must therefore also be carried out from municipal financial resources. In order to do youth work, the municipality has the option of employing its own employees or of making use of the offers of so-called "independent organizations".
1) Every young person has the right to support their development and to be educated to become a self-determined, responsible and socially responsible personality.
2) The care and upbringing of children is the natural right of parents and their primary duty. The state community watches over their activities. 
3) Youth welfare is intended to implement the right under paragraph 1 in particular
  1. promote young people in their individual and social development and help to avoid or reduce disadvantages,
  2. enable or facilitate young people to interact independently in all areas of life that affect them according to their age and their individual abilities and thus to be able to participate equally in life in society,
  3. advice and support to parents and other legal guardians in their upbringing,
  4. protect children and adolescents from dangers to their well-being,
  5. help to maintain or create positive living conditions for young people and their families as well as a child and family-friendly environment.

Mariaberg e.V.

  • Active in youth welfare, child and youth work, the extracurricular youth education as well as vocational education active by young people and adults.
  • Since 2001 active in the field of youth social work in communities
  • We are currently represented at twelve locations in three districts.
  • We offer the following services: School social work, open youth work, mobile youth work / street work, social group work and communal mobile youth work (KMJA).
  • We offer school social work at eight locations, with four locations specifically for primary schools.
  • At regional and supraregional level, we are represented in all important specialist working groups (e.g. LAGO, LAG Mobile Youth Work, Network School Social Work, LAG Youth Social Work, etc.)

Values and attitudes

  • Children and young people are equal counterparts
  • Children and adolescents are fully fledged, capable individuals with specific desires and realities
  • We strengthen strengths, accept and support individuality
  • Every behavior makes an individual sense. If you understand this sense, you can change behavior in the long term. (Principle of systemic social work)

Basic goals of our work

  • We convey and learn educationally lived and organized democracy
  • We offer professional support for independent learning
  • We hold young people accountable and thus introduce them to life as adults
  • We create (experience) spaces for young people
  • We look - we speak
  • We face the professional, respectful conflict and learn from it

The three pillars of youth work

  1. Open youth work with a focus on opening hours of the youth center and advice
  2. Mobile youth work with a focus on street work and clique support (not explicitly in Gammertingen, but at other locations)
  3. Youth cultural work in the areas of music, dance, sport, art, etc.

Goals of open youth work

  • The core of work is relationship work (a bond can be enough to help a person through difficult times. Dr. Udo Baer)
  • Willingness to fight for young people and the preservation of adventure worlds
  • Conflict work with young people as well as with social space, politics, etc.
  • OJA is also a place for low-threshold and open-ended advice
  • Translation work = bridge hypothesis
  • Social guarantee work
  • OJA is not the police, nor the school, nor the public order office; The top priority is voluntariness

Goals of mobile youth work

  • The focus is on establishing and maintaining contact with young people who are considered to be disadvantaged
  • Mobile youth work pursues the goal of sustainably improving the living conditions of these young people and promoting their development
  • The needs and problems of the young people are asked, possible courses of action are shown and discussed
  • If necessary, mediation of further help
  • Promote and demand personal responsibility
  • To be a reliable person of trust for these young people

Goals of cultural youth work

  • Youth cultural work promotes young people individually according to their talents - young people specify the topics
  • Life skills development
  • Promotion of personal responsibility and participation
  • Compensation and avoidance of disadvantages
  • As a focus of youth work, cultural education is legally anchored in SGB VIII, §11, Paragraph 3: "The focus of youth work includes: extracurricular youth education with general, political, social, health, cultural, natural history and technical education" 

Youth work in common

  • We understand youth work as part of the community. Therefore, close networking with the city administration and city council is important to us, which we want and strive for.
  • Close cooperation with school social work is important and necessary under the aspect of community orientation, but with compliance and maintenance of a clear division of the task areas. From this perspective, a spatial and personal demarcation from school social work is essential and one of our working principles.
  • A regular (annual) presentation of the work done in the city council is desired on our part and is part of the work assignment for us.

Focus of social work at schools

  • Advice for students, parents and teachers
  • Class projects
  • Open offers (open break)
  • Project work
  • Cooperation (school, community, youth welfare office, collegial exchange)

Social work at schools

  • “Interpreter” between those involved in school life
  • Signpost instead of signpost
  • neutral
  • "Fire alarm instead of fire brigade"
  • Developer
  • Advisor
  • willing to change
  • authentic
  • Role model function