HERZOGSÄGMÜHLE

Protestant Social Services of Upper Bavaria

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Table of Contents

Herzogsägmühle – A Place of Diversity Page 2

Catching up AgainPeople in special situations Page 6

Finding One’s Own WayChildren, adolescents and families Page 8

Managing the Working WorldEmployment and integration Page 10

Customized WorkplacesEmployment for people with handicaps Page 12

Self-determination and Participation Handicapped people Page 14Senior citizens Page 16

Coping with LifePeople with mental illnesses Page 18People with addiction problems Page 20

Schools in Herzogsägmühle School for students with learning problems Page 22Vocational college Page 23School for social care workers Page 24

General InformationAdmission Page 26Volunteering Page 27Map of Herzogsägmühle Page 28

Herzogsägmühle

There are many reasons why fellow citizens suddenly become unable to manage their lives on their own, may it be for a while or even permanently. Usually, this is not their personal fault. More commonly, these crises derive from organic or mental diseases, as well as from social conflicts and family prob-lems that may necessitate a special therapy and a modified environment for living, lear-ning and working. Those who receive support by the Herzog-sägmühle depend on the respect everyone deserves within society. In this regard, St Paul reminds us: “Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you.”

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HerzogsägmühleA Place Like No Other

Herzogsägmühle – A Charming Place

Many people who visit us for the first time encounter a quite ordinary village. Beautifully settled in the countryside, the parish with its 900 residents is situated in the famous area of Pfaffenwinkel between Peiting and Schongau.Herzogsägmühle is a district of the muni-cipality of Peiting, located five kilometres away. The place itself is characterized by a grown, colourful mixture of residential and administrational buildings, stores and work-shops. The town centre at the village square is surrounded by the church and the may-pole, a sports and festival centre as well as the non-alcoholic restaurant Herzog with its bowling alley and minigolf course. Various schools, sport and leisure facilities are situated in the area.

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Herzogsägmühle – A Social Place

Our village is not just a beautiful place. At the same time, it’s a home for people who have been disadvan- taged by life in some way. The reason for this could be a psychological disease, a mental or physical han-dicap as well as the loss of home or employment. In Herzogsägmühle, this special community, these people find a place to live, supported by specialists from social, medical, caring, crafting, commercial and technical professions. Beyond that, we offer voca-tional training in 41 branches, as well as specialized propositions concerning therapy, education and soci-al aid. Many co-workers who live in Herzogsägmühle with their families contribute to the character of this quite normal and yet very particular place.

Herzogsägmühle – A Place of Bavarian Deaconry

With Herzogsägmühle’s supporting association “Innere Mission München – Diakonie in München und Oberbayern e.V.” we are a member of Diakonisches Werk Bayern (the social services organisation of the Protestant church in Bavaria). The employees are rooted in Christian values or receive according offers. Besides the improvement of the relations one has to others as well as to oneself, our social work focu-ses on the mediation of people’s trust in god, spiritual guidance and the combination of spirituality and as-sistance in life.

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Herzogsägmühle – Offering Opportunities to the Region In the past 25 years Herzogsäg- mühle has built a strong con- nection to the region itself. Its consulting offices, day-care centers for mentally challengedcitizens, accommodation facilities and manifold out- patient services can now be found in neighboring cities like Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Marktoberdorf, Peiting, Penzberg, Schongau and Weilheim, too.

All together, there are three schools available for peop-le from all over Southern Bavaria. The village commu-nity of Herzogsägmühle with its specific atmosphere of mutual respect has blended well into the region.

With its services and products at over 150 locations it’s also a powerful employer with more than 1100 employees, whose working and spending power let the whole region profit from this social enterprise.

Many economic and personal links to shops and companies in the region ensure both a good occu- pancy and workload of our local training companies and sheltered workshops.

A guarantor for a stable social network in the Pfaffen- winkel area – this is what Herzogsägmühle stands for, too.

Herzogsägmühle A Place with History

The name Herzogsägmühle goes back to duke (German: Herzog) Christoph the strong in the 15th century, who ran a sawing mill (German: Sägemühle) here. From 1894 to 1905 the “Association for worker colonies in Bavaria” purchased the estates, including “Unterobland”, the present town centre, and the “Oberobland” area. Here, the named so- ciety founded the second Bavarian worker colony for poor and homeless men and gave to it the name HERZOGSÄGMÜHLE.

Since 1946 Herzogsägmühle is managed by the society “Innere Mission München –Diakonie in München und Oberbayern e.V.” From a state-owned workers’ colony back in the Third Reich it by now has developed into an open village with good infrastructure.

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modern apartments at site or be- nefit from our range of ser-vices in Schongau, Peiting, Landsberg a. L. and Weilheim. Health-promoting activities and regular cultural events are roun-ding up the picture.

A Place to Live

Besides, there are residential offers for citizens who – due to their personal health and ability to work – cannot live on their own anymore, nor participate in the first labour market. They receive our respect and acknowledgement in a welcoming environment, as well as extensive attendance, guidance and help in a stabilizing community.

Our Consulting Centers and the Hostel

Before it comes to a loss of home, we’re offering pre- ventive support through our offices in the region of Weilheim-Schongau and Ostallgäu, that also assist in the case of private insolvency. If people already haven’t got a roof over theirs heads, our hostel offers them an open and non-obligatory service of accom- modation and regeneration.

Vocational Promotion, Work and Employment

In Herzogsägmühle, there’s the possibility to realign or accomplish a professional education in our diverse training companies. Furthermore we offer structured daily schedules and the opportunity to get a regular employment, including insurance and pension bene-fits.

Catching Up Again

Life doesn´t always go as planned. People, especially those who live in socially special circumstances, are going through painful experiences and get deeply influenced by them. At the time where the loss of home, of work or a beloved partner cannot be over- come, there’s the threat of an ongoing life on the streets. To cope with such a life crisis, Herzogsägmühle offers a broad and strongly individualized assistance.

Interim Accommodation

In the field of interim accommodation we pursue the goal to get people standing on their own feet again as soon as possible. Our extensive social, psychological and thera- peutic aid supports the returning into a self- determined life as well as practical training. Our clients are lodging in single-rooms and

mastering different problems, and they provide efficient support when there are worries concer-ning education and professional training.

At the same time our associates accompany the biographical background with the personal past, including a co-operation with the parents and support for a realistic plan for the future.

For those kids who are mentally unstable, endange- red in their development or threatened by a persistent handicap we offer (ad hoc) admissions in our clea- ring department for boys and girls and, what’s more, individually designed and integrated support and maintenance in special pedagogic establishments in Germany and abroad.

These offers are endorsed by groups with a training in personal autonomy and individually assisted living.

Besides, we provide – if necessary – ambulant social- pedagogic, systemic and therapeutic assistance for families in distressed situations. The reasons might be, for example, when families cannot cope with every- day life anymore, parents seem to be overwhelmed with the care and education of their kids or when children might be endangered in their development.

In our department we have the possibility to clarify the amount of assistance needed and to intervene quickly, if a crisis occurs. Our advice and assistance takes place in the households of the families, or in our premises in Schongau, Landsberg a. L. and Kempten.

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Finding One’s Own Way

Remedial Teaching and Therapeutic Assistance of Children and Adolescents – Socio-Pedagogical Support for Families

Children and teenagers with development and behavioral problems receive remedial teaching and – if needed – therapeutic care within Herzogsägmühle and various places in its neighborhood. There’s the possibility to live in residential groups with five to nine occupancies and four to five pedagogic spe-cialists. For younger kids with a long-term length of stay we provide several professio-nal foster homes and families.

Our skilled employees try to establish a sus- tainable relationship with the children and adolescents, they encourage them in their personal development and assist them with

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Persisting in the Working World

Future-oriented Professional Training

Being integrated at work ensures an im-portant participation in society. Herzogsäg-mühle is therefore offering a broad pallet of opportunities of vocational preparation, training and employment. These offers are specially made for adults and adolescents with •Learning difficulties and behavioral

problems•Addiction problems•Problems of social conduct and motivation

Our specialized and training companies are managed by experienced craftsmen. Our apprentices are frequenting vocational schools in Herzogsägmühle and places in the neighborhood.

They receive long-term assis- tance until they reach their final exams at the chamber of crafts. Herzogsägmühle is offering 30 state-approved vocational trai-nings and eleven apprentice-ships which are certified by the chamber of crafts.

Our enterprises and workshops are not only open for citizens with the right to receive governmental help, but also for those who undergo a vocational rehabi- litation, a professional training or an apprenticeship accredited by a public or private benefactor. As a matter of fact, all measures include social-pedagogic assistance for the whole length of stay.

Employment

Fellow citizens who are temporarily or permanently unable to cope with the challenges of the common labour market, get their chance to participate in a day-structuring schedule of activities. Furthermore, there’s a limited range of jobs which provide social benefits and pension contribution.

Our Concept

•Our program is open to everyone•It’s integrated in the normal, regional economy•It stands for customer orientation and high-class

original and market-conform products•It equally regards pedagogical and economic

requirements

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A Specially Adopted Working World

Guiding Principles In the workshops of Herzogsägmühle it is our goal to create a complying professional life for everyone. We achieve this by a huge diversity of workplaces, additional professi-onal education and an adjusted individuali-zation of our workstations.

In our enterprises in Schongau and Peiting we have different working groups focussing on toll manufacturing, professional services and in-house production. The respective in- structors are part of a multidisciplinary team, consisting of masters and assistants with additional pedagogical qualifications, reme- dial therapists, social education workers and psychologists. Our vocational preparation centers with their specific learning content provide a comprehensive qualification for an appropriate posterior field of profession be

it for people with psychological problems or those with mental handicaps. All in all, we offer over 25 types of employment, each individually aligned to the personal affinities, skills and the nature of handicap of our cli-ents. The employees receive a salary which is subjected to their capabilities and the individual workload. They all receive assurance and pension benefits for the whole duration of employment. What’s more, we are offering accompanying courses promoting their personal de- velopment and the gradual integration in the common labour market.

Special Abilities Our sheltered support facility is destined for severely handicapped people who cannot (or not yet) be em-ployed in our workshops. Social integration, dignity and acceptance – this is what our clients experience in seven different fostering groups that are all focu-sing on incitement and promotion.

A Fulfilled Day Despite an Older Age Our Lekos daycare center has been created for el-der citizens with or without handicaps and serves for a surplus in participation. The pedagogical work is aligned to the biography of the visitors. The facility itself is characterized by common rooms and an open atmosphere, supplemented by the possibility of per- sonal privacy. Manifold and inspiring activity offers are completing our range of services.

For that reason, we’re taking their wishes and expectations very seriously. Together, we dis- cuss where there’s a need for help and support, and where there is not. Thus, we’re facing and discussing the following questions:

•Where do I want to live?•How do I want to live?•What goals do I want to achieve in life?

To answer these questions, we have established a consulting office with professionals who inform and give advice. Most of the time, the client’s family and other related persons like friends or caretakers are getting involved in his or her personal planning of the future, too.

Here’s an overview concerning our services and offers:

•Support in the management of everyday life•Advice and suggestions concerning leisure

time activities through the daily routine.•Maintaining contact with friends and relations•Communication with public authorities•Crisis management and help, if care

dependency occurs•And many more…

You can stay with us, even when you’re getting old or ill. We’re helping you as long as we can, or as long as you want us to!

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Self-determination and Participation for a Valuable Life

Accommodation for Handicapped People

Everybody should have the right to live self-determinedly – this certainly applies for peo-ple with handicaps, too. Herzogsägmühle has created several offers for them.

Handicapped citizens want to decide freely in every aspect of life – therefore, they need advice, support and assistance, but also the ability to make real choices and use alternati-ves, e.g. within the modality of accommodation.

Herzogsägmühle is offering quite different forms of placement: Single or double apart- ments, single rooms in shared flats and residential communities, in the heart of Her- zogsägmühle or in its vicinity. Fellow citizens with handicaps want to shape their life plan independently.

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Self-Determination and Participation for a Valuable Life

People in Seniority

Our gerontological psychiatric home is an important part of the Herzogsägmühle com-munity.

It offers accommodation and a home for elder people with mental illnesses who need to be looked after.

With respect and dignity concerning the age and the life-time achievements of its resi-dents we want to retain their self-determina-tionand independence and to promote their individual abilities.

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At our facility, our clients are experiencing

•a welcoming, gentle atmosphere

•trust and a feeling of being taken serious

•encounters in the café, daytrips and (clerical) festivities

•church services and prayer meetings in our in-house chapel

•a background that wants to cherish life and death•intimity and consolidation at the end-of-life care

In practical and daily aspects of life our employees are willing to give any assistance needed. Especially when there’s the need of an everyday care the welfare and activating support of our specialists contributes to a life still worth living. Medical and psychiatric sup- port are guaranteed at any time.

Our employees in housekeeping and internal supply contribute to the feel-good atmosphere in our com- mon and private rooms. Our general canteen deli- vers food and beverages, but we have further kitchen space, if people want to prepare dishes on their own.

Our cosy senior café invites to get together and so- cialize. Besides, we are offering additional courses such as physical exercise and occupation.

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Coping with Life

Holistic Assistance

Herzogsägmühle is offering holistic assistance to those with a mental disease or handicap. Teenagers and adults who are sent to us by a psychiatric hospital or an outpatient service get appropriate support for their lives. We are offering social-psychiatric advice in the counties of Weilheim-Schongau and Gar-misch-Partenkirchen and have established day-care centers in Schongau, Penzberg, Weilheim and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Besides the sheltered accommodations in families we have several other services at our disposal:

•The rehabilitation center (RPK) Landsberg•The rehabilitation center in Herzogsägmühle•Transition facilities in Herzogsägmühle

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•Residential homes in Herzog- sägmühle and its vicinity

•Our vocational center (BZ)•Apprenticeships and

professional retraining•Integration in the sheltered

workshops for people with handicaps

•Occupational therapy and day-structuring measures

Rehabilitation Our rehabilitation centers in Herzogsägmühle and Landsberg am Lech, as well as our transition facility aim for an improvement of health, participation in the working world and a valuable life within a community.

Worklife Herzogsägmühle provides assistance and support for the integration in the first labour market. This hap- pens through occupational therapy, apprenticeships and vocational retraining, promotional courses and a diversity of workplaces, be it in a sheltered workshop or in our special integration company.

Accomodations

A sophisticated range of accommodation types al-lows for an individual mentoring program and offers a home specially aligned to the needs and wishes of our clients. Our day-care centers and sheltered work-shops can be visited from all forms of accommodation.

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Content with Abstinence

Women and Men with Addictive Disorders

Herzogsägmühle offers therapy and a ful-filled life for women and men threatened or affected by addiction problems.

Psychosocial Consulting and Treatment Centers

We have a qualified team based in Weilheim that is dealing with the problems of local persons with addiction diseases and their families. In connection to this, we focus on education and prevention.

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Socio-therapeutic Transition Facility

Many women and men getting discharged from a detox center require further social stabilizing and vocational promotion. If this cannot be held in an ambulant context, our Haus Obland offers social therapy and adaptive treatment. The stay is limited, and costs are covered by social welfare or pension funds.

Afterwards, there’s always the possibility to join an individual supervised living or other therapeutic residential communities. All clients with addictive disorders are offered independent day-structuring schedules, occupational therapy and individually suitable workplaces.

Living Abstinent

The residence of Haus Osterwald is offering a home to those citizens who are determined to live without alcohol. It offers a dry living facility. All clients can visit the workshops and day-care centers of Herzogsäg-mühle.

Work

Besides occupational therapy and day-structuring measures, Herzogsägmühle is offering various app- renticeships and professional retraining, integrative workspace and a place in our sheltered workshops. What’s more, it accompanies and supports all sober ex-alcoholics to re-integrate in the first labour market.

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Taking Advantage of Opportunities

School for Students with Learning Difficulties

Our school for educational support is open for children from the whole region. Its cur-riculum matches with the official standards for elementary and second schools. Thus, our pupils can achieve respective qualifica-tions like any other school.

The concept of our school is, above all, aligned to pupils with additional educative requirements. We pay regard to learning dif-ficulties and other problems at school, and are offering professional care for the noon and afternoon in the context of a fulltime day school. The all-day development class introduces children to a regular schooling. Furthermore, Herzogsägmühle is planning to establish a “school for ill”.

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Personal Support for your Career

Vocational School

The Albrecht-Schnitter-School is a vocational school designed for special edu-cational needs with an emphasis on learning problems. It’s our goal to support teenagers with learning disabilities in such away they can accomplish a professional education.

Our Departments are

Construction technique, interior design, haircraft, ca- tering industry, horticulture, domestic science, wood engineering, plumbing trade, vehicle technology, metal technique, healthcare services, administration and office works.

Characteristics of our Trade School

Our pupils are given (preparative) lessons in twelve different vocational fields and 30 professions, inclu- ding the possibility of prevocational classes. Small learning groups and adopted teaching methods as well as comprehensive social work are an integrative part of our pedagogic philosophy. The professional competence of our teachers, mo- dern equipment and an atmosphere of empathy – all of this contributes to a successful transition into the working world. The Albrecht Schnitter School is of-ficially approved by the state, which means all less-ons and qualifications match with those that people receive elsewhere.S

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Enabling Holistic Support

Protestant Professional College for Curative Education and Caretaking

Working in the social sector requires a quali- fied education. With its Liselotte-von-Lepel- Gnitz-School Herzogsägmühle is offering a professional apprenticeship for curative education caretakers and helpers.

Both courses take place in addition to practi-cal training and end with an examination and official approval. At the moment over 90 participators are attending four different courses. They’re working in Herzogsägmühle and facilities in the neighborhood and get supervised by frequent personal contacts with teachers of our school.

Besides their own education, the latter pos- sess year-long experience in theory and practice.

Curative Education Caretakers

The training to become a cura- tive education caretaker lasts over three years and includes professional classes in the fol- lowing fields: pedagogy, cura-tive education, psychology and sociology as well as communication, medical and psychiatric science, maintenance, law and adminis-tration, aspects of Christian theology and conduct of life. The training itself is closely aligned to practical experiences.

After passing their exams, curative education careta-kers and helpers work as specialists in the field of so- cial pedagogy and care. Their activity range extends from education and support over assistance and professional advice to caretaking support and care of handicapped people at any age.

Curative Education Helpers

In this training program, education takes one year and consists of theoretical courses and practical ex-perience in the following subjects: German language, social studies, English, (curative) pedagogy, psycho-logy, anatomy, physiology and pathology, mainte-nance and methodology as well as communication, law, religion and design of a living environment.

Having received their degrees, curative education helpers work as social-pedagogic and caretaking employees, facilitating the lives of people with handi- caps and supporting the tasks of curative education caretakers.S

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Possibilities of Voluntary Cooperation

Despite a noticeable perfor-mance of our 1.400 employees we regularly require the endor-sement of voluntary helpers. Fellow citizens willing to con-tribute with their knowledge and work power find in Herzogsägmühle a comprehensive field of activity.

If you want to support us, please refer to our consul-ting services in your vicinity or to those in charge of our single departments.

Herzogsägmühle’s Regional Shops

With our high-quality products we reach customers from the whole region, for example with our ice cream parlor “Gino Nouvo” in Peiting and our workshop stores “Lebensmittel.Punkt” and “Gebrauchs.Gut” in the old town of Schongau. In addition, we’re running our successful i+s companies in Schongau and Weil-heim.

We are Glad to Inform You

If you want to get a closer look on what we do in our departments, if you need advice or want to retrieve updated information, please let us know.

Please check our website to get insight into our work:

www.herzogsaegmuehle.de

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Admissions in Herzogsägmühle and Places in its Vicinity

People in special situations 300

Curative education of children and adolescents 200

Home and support for people with intellectual and combined disabilities 150

Herzogsägmühle’s (sheltered) workshops 520

Help for people with mental and/or addictive disorders 460

Senior and/or handicapped citizens 280

School for educational support 80

Vocational school 520

Protestant college for curative education caretakers 60and curative education helpers 30

Vocational preparation, trainingand employment 390

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HERZOGSÄGMÜHLEVon-Kahl-Straße 486971 Peiting-HerzogsägmühleTelefon 0 88 61 219-0Telefax 0 88 61 219-201E-Mail: info@herzogsaegmuehle.deInternet: www.herzogsaegmuehle.de

Herzogsägmühle perceives itself as aPLACE TO LIVE

and is managed by the society “Innere Mission München – Diakonie in München und Oberbayern e.v.”. Within the realms of an open village community we’re offering help to children, adolescents and adults struggling with problems, disorders or handicaps. Here, they can experience advice and support for their personal, social and professional development, or are taken care of by our consulting service Furthermore, Herzogsägmühle provides several consulting offices, day-care centers, vocational opportunities and a place to live within the region.

Donations account: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft IBAN: DE42 7002 0500 0004 8192 00SWIFT-BIC: BFSWDE33MUE