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AK Families and Children Findorff

Within the framework of our working groups, networking meetings and cooperation rounds in the districts of Findorff, Mitte and Östliche Vorstadt, municipal departments, independent organizations, politicians, associations and initiatives as well as other stakeholders come together to exchange ideas and make contacts.

The main focus is on topics related to children, youth and family.

The aim of the work in our socio-spatial committees is to ensure functioning communication and networking among the participants, as well as to activate and involve the individual actors.

The aim is to network the actors in the social space, to support their ideas and their implementation in the form of developing services and assistance, and to organize coordinated action.

We would like to encourage an exchange of information about the offers, needs and problems of the respective social spaces, coordinate local activities, and initiate a dialogue on key topics and needs with the aim of passing these on to the levels of administration and political bodies if necessary.

In order to ensure professional development in our committees, we have decided to regularly invite speakers to address selected key topics.
 

Meeting location:
Changing facilities in Findorff

Meeting frequency:
Once a quarter

Participation requirements for
the Findorff area of ​​activity in the field of children and families

Working level,
Findorff district

Cooperation with other working groups and networks
; networking meetings for youth work in Findorff

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Castillo Morales Working Group Bremen

The Castillo Morales concept

Children or adults seeking therapeutic support for managing their daily lives due to congenital or acquired illnesses or disabilities that limit their ability to perform various activities will find this support specifically within the Castillo Morales®concept. It offers these patients individually tailored assistance that can improve their independence in key daily activities and thus their participation in society.

Castillo Morales®therapistswork together with their clients to develop ideas for communicating as freely as possible, moving appropriately at every stage of development, and perceiving and interacting with their environment. They consider it a particular focus to enable individuals to eat and drink independently, thus allowing them to manage their daily lives as effectively as possible despite disability or illness.

Castillo Morales Working Group

Participants include CM therapists from various professional groups within speech therapy, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy. The working group offers an opportunity for theoretical and practical professional exchange and networking.
 

Participation requirements
for CM therapist*

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Children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities and mental disorders

Due to a variety of challenges, children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities have an increased risk of developing mental health problems. They experience negative social situations (rejection, exclusion, bullying, etc.) more frequently than their peers. It is also known that mental health/psychiatric comorbidities can occur within the context of specific developmental disorders associated with intellectual disabilities. These are often overlooked or unrecognized in treatment and care.

Family members also often reach the limits of their resilience in everyday life.

Psychotherapeutic support can be of great help to young people with intellectual disabilities, as well as to their parents and/or families. This quality circle aims to provide an opportunity to exchange information about these psychological developmental disorders in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Reflecting on psychodynamic and systemic aspects of the affected families can open up new avenues for professional helpers to offer support and develop ideas for working with these families to create new strategies.

In addition to practical case studies, theoretical topics can also be discussed.
 

Meeting location:
SPI conference room

Meeting frequency:
3-4 times a year

Participation requirements
: none

Cooperation with other working groups and committees:
Depending on the case, cooperation partners are invited.

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Bremen Youth and Children's Rights Office

The Youth and Children's Rights Office is the expert contact point for children's rights in Bremen. Our work is based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Strengthening children's rights

It is important that the rights of children and young people are known, respected, and implemented. Therefore, we inform children and young people about their rights and work with them to develop strategies for what they can do if their rights are violated.

Making children's rights tangible

Together with children's and youth groups, we want to implement initiatives to embed children's rights in the public consciousness. The participation of children and young people is central to this: the wishes, ideas, and demands of these groups should be heard in Bremen.

Offers

Children's and youth projects:
We work with existing children's and youth groups. In doing so, we particularly want to reach children and young people from disadvantaged groups or those in especially vulnerable situations.

Expert advice & cooperation:
We inform and connect professionals. These professionals should then become active as multipliers in matters of children's rights.

Public relations:
We raise awareness of children's rights and support the people of Bremen in their efforts to advocate for the rights of children and young people.

Further information

 

 

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Excellent family-friendly

Consulting, networking and support

Consulting and support for companies of all sizes

We inform, advise, network, and support you in implementing family-friendly measures

The seal gives small and medium-sized enterprises in particular the opportunity to further support their employees in reconciling work and private life with the help of experts by developing individual and tailored offers.

These include, among other things:

  • Company-supported childcare (regular, temporary, emergency, during holidays)
  • flexible working time models
  • Teleworking (working from home)
  • Further development of a family-friendly leadership culture

Some examples of family-friendly offers:

Working Time Arrangements – Increasing Time Sovereignty
Flexible working hours are a key instrument for better reconciling work and family life. Working time measures target all employees – whether they are caring for children, looking after elderly parents, or, for example, engaged in voluntary work.

Common arrangements include, for example: part-time models, changes in working time volume, trust-based working time, annual working time accounts, lifetime working time accounts, sabbaticals, options for unpaid leave, flextime arrangements/flexible breaks, optimizing/flexibilizing shift work systems, increasing predictability, etc.

Work organization – optimizing workflows.
Company options for flexible working time organization include, for example, job sharing and teamwork. Job sharing is based on a part-time model, in which two or more employees share at least one job as a team or group. The partners can individually determine their working hours. This also applies to teamwork, where the team members coordinate among themselves.

Common organizational models include job sharing, a pool of substitute staff, family-friendly vacation planning, team agreements (e.g., deputies), regular communication times, staff exchange with related companies in case of shortages, family-friendly meeting and conference scheduling, and participation in deployment/project planning.

workplace more
flexible means allowing part of the work to be done from home, for example through (alternating) teleworking. Work goals, deadlines, etc., are agreed upon with the employer and/or team, making it easier to combine family responsibilities and work. Furthermore, time-consuming commutes are eliminated.

Company-sponsored childcare:
Employees with children generally rely on dependable childcare to enable them to pursue their professional activities. Employers support their employees in this regard through various means, including company-sponsored childcare options such as crèches or kindergartens, reserved places in existing daycare facilities, children's holiday programs, and numerous other measures such as providing information about local or regional childcare facilities, setting up a company-provided parent-child workspace for emergencies, or a play area with a children's play box.

Establishing a reintegration management process:
After a family-related or illness-related leave of absence, a swift and well-planned return to work provides significant help and support for both parties. Contact maintenance and onboarding programs, discussions before, during, and after parental leave, buddy programs, or mentors for employees on parental leave or sick leave are tools to facilitate a successful reintegration.

Information and communication – communicating in diverse ways.
An active and transparent company information and communication policy is an essential aspect for the effective implementation and use of services.

Since people react differently to communication media, it is recommended to distribute information across various channels, such as large events, company meetings, the internet, intranet, posters, flyers, email, newsletters, and individual conversations. Effective communication also includes integrating family-friendly HR policies into the company's mission statement.

Developing leadership skills and corporate culture:
Managers play a key role in implementing family-friendly policies. Successful family-friendly HR policies require sensitized managers who actively support implementation and lead by example. This, in turn, encourages employees to take advantage of these programs.

Measures in this area include, for example, specialized management training that raises awareness of the issue and enhances personal social skills. This can influence and change the company culture in the medium to long term.

Enabling work and caregiving:
Reconciling work and caregiving is a crucial aspect of balancing work and family life. Three key measures are paramount: raising awareness and providing information about work and caregiving, offering support services related to working hours and location, and providing information, advice/training, and placement assistance.

Possible services include: providing information brochures, awareness seminars, referrals to nursing homes, short-term care, and outpatient care services, ensuring accessibility in emergencies, e.g., via personal mobile phone, flexible working hours and part-time models, courses on caring for relatives, statutory leave of absence, and special leave in case of acute care needs.

 

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Network “Children of mentally ill parents” (Bremen East)

This is a project for networking with the target group of children of mentally ill parents in Bremen.

Since 2004, the network has pursued the goal of optimizing the cooperation between the systems of "child and adolescent psychiatry" and "adult psychiatry" in order to provide constructive and sustainable help to the affected children and their parents.

Our goals:

  • The needs of the children and the affected parents can only be met through active cooperation between the systems of "child and youth welfare", "child and adolescent psychiatry" and "adult psychiatry".
  • Encounters and cooperation between the systems of "child and youth welfare", "child and adolescent psychiatry" and "adult psychiatry" are not the goal but an integral part of the network.
  • Respect and appreciation for the perspectives of other systems support cooperation and engagement.
  • Previous experience in dealing with the target group, existing projects and models are used.
  • Developing from existing structures and integrating them into existing structures ensures consistency and sustainability.

current dates You can find
 

Meeting location:
Primary school in Vahr (Owl Room)

Working level,
district level

Cooperation with other working groups and networks
Network “Children of mentally ill parents”

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Working Group for Children and Young People in Bremen West

The participants work in child and youth services and advocate for the needs of the younger residents in the neighborhood.

In addition to regional topics, the exchange of information among colleagues is an important part of the meetings. Furthermore, activities are planned and carried out jointly. Regular offerings include the publication of the "Summer Holiday Program for Gröpelingen" and the annual "Kids in Action" day of activities.

Members of the working group are the Gröpelingen Advisory Board, Bergerhaus Oslebshausen e. V., Rostocker Straße Residents' Meeting Place – WaBeQ, Gröpelingen Leisure Center, Oslebshausen Leisure Center, Gröpelingen New Chance West – WaBeQ, Pastorenweg Primary School, Gröpelingen Youth Counseling – WaBeQ, Girls' Center, Gröpelingen New Secondary School, Waller Ring Secondary School, Helgolander Straße Secondary School, Ohlenhof Secondary School, Gröpelingen Neighborhood Management – ​​Gröpelingen/Walle Social Center, REBUZ West and the "Wild West" Play and Community Center on Stuhmer Straße.

The working group meets once a month from 11:00 to 12:30 at the various locations of its members. New participants are very welcome.

Contact person at the health meeting point:
Tanja Kläser
 

Meeting location:
The locations change constantly, but are all accessible.

Meetings are held
monthly, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM. No meetings take place during school holidays or in January.

Participation requirements
: No

Working level:
The working group is active at the district level, but also considers the state-level political dimension.

Cooperation with other working groups and committees:
The working group connects over 30 individual institutions. Furthermore, there is an exchange with the Bremen West Prevention Council, the Gröpelingen Sports Mile, and the working group "Aging in Bremen West".

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Municipal Early Intervention Network

The Federal Child Protection Act mandates that municipalities establish binding network structures for early intervention services. The "Municipal Network for Early Intervention Services" fulfills this mandate in the city of Bremen. The network aims to "create sufficient services and cooperative structures that strengthen and support parents in enabling their children to grow up healthy and well" (Rules of Procedure).

This is achieved through various activities (including joint public relations work or the organization of conferences, joint assessment of the needs of families, and coordination of procedures in child protection)

Meeting location:
Office for Social Services

Meetings are held
twice a year, on Wednesday afternoons from 2 pm to 5 pm.

Participation Requirements:
The rules of procedure include a list of services and institutions that should be represented. This list is based on the one mentioned in the Child and Youth Welfare Act (KKG, §3). The aim is to achieve interdisciplinary representation, encompassing all relevant institutions and services that regularly interact with pregnant women and parents of young children. Associations will send mandated representatives who will then disseminate the information within their own organizations.

working level
municipal

Cooperation with other working groups and committees
is possible on a case-by-case/topic basis; not structurally. However, it does constitute cooperation when associations send representatives to the network.

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Bremen Child Protection Group

There is extensive professional exchange on the topic of child protection. The primary focus is on areas arising in the context of the children's hospital. Furthermore, collaborations are fostered, cases are presented, and networking among support systems is pursued.
 

Meeting location:
Bremen Central Hospital – Meeting room of the Children's Hospital

Meeting frequency:
5-6 times a year

Participation requirements
: none

Working level,
city level

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Media Addiction Unit

Our media addiction services are aimed at adults and young people affected by media addiction, as well as their families and caregivers. We offer support through individual consultations, family sessions, and group settings.

Media addiction

Media play a major role in many areas of everyday life. Banking, shopping, and communication are just a few examples of areas where many people use media. Most people use media in a self-determined way.

However, some people develop risky consumption patterns or even an addiction. "Men and women hardly differ in terms of usage duration, but prefer different content.".

Online role-playing games, first-person shooters, and adult websites tend to attract more male users, while women prefer chat rooms and shopping platforms. Over time, addicts develop a certain tolerance, requiring them to increase their dose, i.e., their online time.

In extreme cases, computer addicts spend up to 16 hours a day at the computer. Social life, regular meals and personal hygiene, school or work, and much more are completely neglected. Dirty and cluttered apartments and malnutrition are not uncommon. (Source: No Power to Drugs)

Here's a link for a self-test (Ins-Netz-gehen.de)

Media consumption support services

The consultation hour is offered weekly:  Current dates

People with problematic media use and/or their relatives can use our counseling services during this period without prior appointment. The counseling is free of charge for users.

Beyond the initial consultation, further counseling can be offered to develop strategies for controlling and/or reducing substance use. If needed and at the request of the individual, referrals to additional support services will be provided.

Media group for consumption reduction

The group is aimed at people who want to critically examine their media use. Key components of the program include working on reducing consumption, training in self-control, interaction and reflection within the group, and experiential learning.

Professional exchange

We are a member of the German Association for Media Addiction and the Working Group on Media Addiction in Bremen.

 

Registration information:
Make an appointment