Working Not For, but with People Sozialwerk

Sozialwerk St. Georg e.V. 2008 Sozialwerk St.Georg e.V. Working not for, but with people Preface by the Executive Board Contents 4 Retrospect, guidelines, prospects 6 6 Tasks, aims, structures 10 Foundation KEY FIGURES 2008 People assisted: about 3,600* Services offered and target groups Members of staff: about 2,200 11 Work and employment/activities Personnel expense: € 77.3 m Living / accommodation Turnover: € 97.5 m Special services offered Total operating performance: € 108,3 m Leisure Total capital expenditure: € 10,3 m *The number of people benefitting from our services also increased in 2008.The number 3,600 expresses the number of assistance relationships. 15 Figures, data, facts 2008 IMPRINT: Publisher responsible for the contents: Sozialwerk St. Georg e. V., Gelsenkirchen Editor: Stefan Kuster Original concept/design: XEO creative communication, Düsseldorf Current layout design: GLADE-MEDIEN, Schmallenberg We would like to express our gratitude to all of the authors of the contributions and to all those who have contributed in any other way to the success of this publication. 2 | Sozialwerk St. Georg Working not for, but with people. We wish to provide person-centred services so that people with disabilities, illnesses or social difficulties can live in a self-determined way. We consider it an important Christian and social task to assist and support every individual person so wishing, to respect him or her in his or her uniqueness and dignity and to make it possible for that person to take part in social life. In order to be able to ensure this on a permanent basis in the interest of our clients we must take up the challenges and assert ourselves in the market as a social service-providing company. Our committed and highly qualified members of staff are guarantors of the quality of our work and the basis of our economic success. From the brochure ‘Unternehmenskonzeption/Programm 2000plus’ – this is available online at www.sozialwerk-st-georg.de > Vision – Leitlinien Preface by the Executive Committee Dear Friends and Sponsors, „Working not for, but with people“ is the leitmotif of Sozialwerk St. Georg. The central theme for 2008 is ‘Live a sharing life – experience neighbourliness’. Neighbourhoods in which solidarity is lived and responsibility is assumed and in which the generations live together in mutual respect, are an essential module for a social culture. Voluntary commitment triggers stimuli which radiate into the direct neighbourhood since whoever commits himself/herself would like to actively shape and leave his/her mark on his/her living environment. Neighbourly efforts strengthen cohesion in society, enriches all those involved and builds bridges for a bit more quality of life. Whoever makes an effort on behalf of others gives our society a human face. This honorary commitment requires partnership-like structures. That is why our permanent staff support and assist honorary members of staff and develop, together with those interested, ideas about where and how they can, with their competence, their time and their abilities, enrich the work and the numerous projects in our services and facilities for the mentally handicapped, for people with psychological disorders or social difficulties. Under the motto “FOR ME AND WITH OTHERS’ the Sozialwerk has, on its own responsibility, been providing young people with the opportunity to undertake a Voluntary Social Year, to get to know the work with our clients and, linked with that, to commit themselves to social objectives. The sustainable promotion of social networks, neighbourhood help and civil society commitment, within the scope of help with integration, help for the old-aged and for young people, is gaining in importance, above all seen against the background of demographic and social change. It has proved advisable to link offers of help for the elderly with those for other generations and, if possible, to also orientate them in an inter-generation way: an important pre-requisite for the integration and/or participation of the elderly and of people requiring care as well as of younger people. A community-orientated conception promotes self-help forces and the ‘social area’ relationship. For this, networking with self-help groups and associations as well as the involvement of local schools and facilities for children and juveniles are also important. In connection with the changing of existing structures of help for the elderly in the recent past, above all ‘neighbourhood concepts’ have gained in importance as community-orientated living projects in urban neighbourhoods. The objective of these sustainable approaches to 4 | Sozialwerk St. Georg Dieter Czogalla (on right) and Wolfgang Meyer in front of the opened door of the Ascheberg Farm, a facility of Sozialwerk St. Georg for people with mental and/or learning handicaps: “A warm welcome and here’s to good neighbourliness!” solutions is to make possible a self-determined life and the longest possible stay in one’s own four walls and thus to adhere to the principle of ‘out-patients rather than in-patients’. The quarter concepts are intended to contribute, with the help of assistance and care in keeping with needs, to an enhancement of the quality of life of people requiring help. And a dynamic involvement of honorary staff in the process of care and assistance is intended to permit provision of a service without any loss of quality. In various projects Sozialwerk St. Georg is developing living forms which combine the retention of independence, mutual help as well as neighbourly and inter-generation living together with professional help and to created living areas at the interface between self-help and support. Our task is to (re-)integrate those people with whose care we have been entrusted into our society – and in this case what applies is: lived neighbourliness is ‘pure integration’! Since how could integration aid function better than with the help of contacts with the neighbourhood, by means of joint events, sponsorships or visits? It is along this path that we want to continue also in the future – together with you. At this point, thank you very much to all of the friends and sponsors who have already supported and assisted us so far. Without your work and participation many of the things we can offer to the people requiring assistance with whom we have been entrusted, would not be possible. We wish you pleasant and exciting reading! Dieter Czogalla Wolfgang Meyer CEO CFO Spokesman of the Member of the Executive Committee Executive Committee Sozialwerk St. Georg | 5 Retrospect, guidelines, prospects Tasks, aims, Our tasks and how we perform them structures The foundation Founded in 1952 by the Catholic parish of St. Barbara in Gelsenkirchen-Buer-Erle, Sozialwerk St. Georg assists people who need support. Committed to the aim of making participation in social life with equal rights possible for people with disabilities, we have developed into a social service company with differentiated services on offer for people with disabilities and mental illnesses in structures allowing flexible change-over between the in-patient and out- patient levels. It corresponds to our self-conception to respect every human being in his or her uniqueness and dignity and to give him or her any necessary support for a self-determined life. We perform this task by • Offering care in hostels: as of 31.12.2008 there were 1,870 persons (including special accommodation and treatment rates as well as help for children and juveniles) there as compared with 1,793 in 2007; in 2008 we were able to discharge 167 persons into private living situations as compared with 148 in 2007 (see graph). Discharges to private living conditions 250 number of cases 200 167 148 150 126 128 111 111 85 90 100 64 50 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 • Ensuring appropriate care where necessary: 7.70 % of cost bearing commitments in the hostels in 2008 related to help for care according to Art. 61 of the German Social Code XII as compared with 8.87 % in 2007, 18,100 assignments for our psychiatric specialist care service were carried out in private flats in 2008 as compared with 22,537 in 2007. The out-patient psychiatric specialist care according to the German Social Code V has unfor- tunately been in marked decline due to the limiting of care to a four-month period according to the health insurance companies’ rules, to the disadvantage of the clients, since 2005. • Providing assistance in their homes to people who can shape their lives on a largely independent basis: as of 31.12.2008, there were 691 persons in out-patient assisted living as compared with 569 in 2007. 6 | Sozialwerk St. Georg Dieter Czogalla, CEO Spokesman of the Executive Committee • Running workshops which prepare people for the requirements of the general labour market and provide permanent jobs (there were 886 employees in 2008 as compared with 864 in 2007). • Providing opportunities for employment, meetings and education in day-care centres as well as in contact and counselling offices. At the same time our principle is that general services on offer are to be made use of before specialist help, out-patient care before partly in patient help and partly in-patient help before in-patient help, if the individual aim of the respective help can thus be achieved. The high degree of flexibility permitting movement between our out-patient and in-patient structures permits a flexible provision of services in line with needs. Organised in the legal form of a registered association, Sozialwerk St. Georg together with its subsidiaries bears responsibility for about 2,200 members of staff (full-time and part-time employees as well as young men performing civil services as an alternative to military service), who care for 3,600 people with disabilities on an out-patient, partly in patient and in-patient basis.

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