The EiGEN-SiNN workshop for children and young people in Freudenstadt has set itself the task of offering children from disadvantaged families a framework in which they can find support and perspectives.
In 1999, the founder Hans-Martin Haist created a place where children and young people are cared for by educational professionals, where social rules are learned and trained, where meaningful leisure activities take place, where problems are addressed and solutions are sought and where children and young people be strengthened. Unlike often in their families of origin and at school, they should experience a safe environment in which they are not branded as losers, victims or perpetrators. They should have appreciative and demanding adults as counterparts who give them support and security and support them in coping with their life’s tasks.
“Children who come to us are no longer blank slates. Life has already left painful marks. Helping children in difficult circumstances is both our goal and our task. We want strong children for a better future. Children who do not fail later in life because they had to suffer from a lack in certain areas of life.
The two butterfly groups , which the Schöck-Familien-Stiftung has been supporting since September 2018, are aimed at children and young people with seriously ill parents. Here they are given the opportunity to build positive relationships outside the home, to talk about their problems, fears and guilt or to portray them creatively. Here they can experience that they are not alone and are supported and strengthened.
It is important for these children to be given the opportunity to develop positive relationships outside of the home, to be able to talk about problems or to present them creatively.
The groups forgirls have been supported by the Schöck Family Foundation since 2013:
Here, girls from difficult backgrounds receive a supervised group program from a pedagogically and creatively-therapeutically trained specialist. They get a chance to discover strengths and to learn how to deal with weaknesses, learn how to behave socially and have the prospect of a self-designed life. Together, the girls can open up to talk about problems in a group of “like-minded people” and get involved in a spirit of trust.
Project partner: Stiftung EiGEN-SiNN
Funding year: since 2013
Project No.: 2013-002 und 2018-002