Orange House Bremen

Therapy and creative center for children and young people

The ORANGE HOUSE therapy and creative center opened in 2017. ORANGE HOUSE Bremen is a place where all users of its services can feel safe and supported in a life-affirming attitude.

focus

The ORANGE HOUSE offers a safe space for children and young people, providing creative and therapeutic individual and group activities. Through holistic experiences of self-efficacy, they are supported in developing their skills and their resilience (psychological resilience) is fostered. This includes, among other things, play, art, and creative therapy for children and young people, as well as social skills training and animal-assisted and experiential learning activities, such as equine therapy.

Holiday programs are another offering of the ORANGE HOUSE.

Target audience

The creative and therapeutic services of ORANGE HOUSE are aimed at children and young people in the various areas of Petri & Eichen, Diakonische Kinder- und Jugendhilfe Bremen gGmbH, such as residential and day groups and family support, but also at families, kindergartens and schools as well as other cooperation partners from the surrounding districts.

The house also offers opportunities for employees to pursue further training.

premises

The ORANGE HOUSE is located on a 3600 square meter plot in Bremen Osterholz and has approximately 600 square meters of space for creative and therapeutic activities.

The services take place in two therapy rooms, a group room, and a large movement room.
The heart of the ORANGE HOUSE is the over 100-square-meter workshop, equipped with high-quality tools. Individual and group art therapy sessions are held there, including art projects for schools, day programs, and residential groups.

team

The services offered by ORANGE HOUSE are coordinated and implemented by the house management and the workshop management. The psychology team from Petri & Eichen also uses the facilities. Freelance staff and colleagues from other areas of Petri & Eichen supplement the team on a project basis.

background

The ORANGE HOUSE was built by the St. Petri Orphanage Foundation of 1692 in Bremen. It is operated by Petri & Eichen, Diaconal Children's and Youth Welfare Bremen gGmbH. The house was donated by the Hoffmann Group Foundation, which also covers the majority of the ongoing operating costs.

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Current offers

• Social skills training, workshop groups or project days for schools
• Parent-child group (children between 0-3 years old)
• babySignal beginner and advanced courses (parents with children from 6 months old)
• Fathers' meeting (fathers with children aged 6 and over)
• Playground meeting (parents with children between 3-6 years old)
• Assertiveness training (from age 8)
• Band project
• Kidditch (Quidditch for children aged 10 and over)
• Work projects
• Holiday programs
• Yoga for the daycare
• Individual therapy sessions (via the specialist service of Petri & Eichen)
• vm.

Contact person

Charis Neef Walerowicz 
OrangeHouse Management
Telephone 0421 69908636
Mobile 0152 56784289

Ole Kadelka
Workshop Management OrangeHouse
Telephone 0421 69908636