Georgian delegation visits Rummelsberg: Insights in youth welfare!
Georgian delegation visits Rummelsberg: Insights in youth welfare!
Rummelsberg, Deutschland - A very special meeting took place on June 17, 2025 in Rummelsberg: A delegation from Georgia, led by Giorgi Mindiashvili from the Interior Ministry, was in Germany to find out about the successful work in youth welfare. This event was made by Dr. Sophie Kiladze, the head of the Committee for Children's Rights at the United Nations in Geneva, has been organized and has been planned for several years.
The focus of the visit was on the pedagogical-therapeutic intensive range (PTI) of Rummelsberger Diakonie . There Jennifer Strasbourg, the head of the PTI, and Thomas Bärthlein, the regional manager of the youth welfare in the Nuremberg region, led the guests through the facility. The aim was to get to know the proven concepts of youth welfare and to develop ideas for future work in Georgia. Dr. Kiladze emphasized that there are already similar facilities in Georgia, but there is a great interest in benefit from German experiences.
insights into youth welfare
The Rummelsberger Diakonie offers a wide range of inpatient forms of living for young people who cannot live in their families for various reasons. This includes curative education, therapeutic and intensive education groups as well as the care of unaccompanied minor foreigners in clearing points and in -care institutions. Every child and adolescent receives the support that corresponds to his individual life situation, guaranteed by the many years of experience of the Rummelsberger Diakonie in child and youth welfare.
In conversation with the experts at the facility, it became clear that the basic principles of the PTI aim to ensure that the accommodation is "as intensive as necessary and as short as possible". This does not happen to be repressive, but pedagogically and therapeutically. The main goal is to offer young people opportunities for reorientation and improve their life perspectives.trust and active cooperation
The discussion rounds underlined that the success of these measures depends heavily on the active participation of young people. Strasbourg and Bärthlein emphasized that many of the young people want a normal life without violence and crime. The PTI has set itself the task of helping them to break out of violence and exclusion and to find it back into society. The trusting relationship between supervisor and adolescents is of crucial importance.
Another aspect that was discussed during the visit affects the role of decision -makers in youth welfare. The youth welfare offices assign the young people, while the PTI is pedagogically and therapeutically free in the design of his work, but the requirements of home supervision must always be observed.
The exchange with the Georgian delegation not only offers tailwind for the work of the Rummelsberger Diakonie, but also the opportunity to intensify international networking and cooperation in the field of youth welfare. In the long run, this could benefit many young people in both Germany and Georgia.
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