The Oberland workshops in Geretsried are building a new facility for 5.8 million euros: 54 jobs for people with mental illnesses are to be housed in it.
The Oberland workshops primarily employ people with intellectual deficits
But people with mental illnesses also need special offers
In Geretsried 54 jobs are now being created for mentally ill people
Geretsried - People with mental illnesses often fall through the cracks in the first job market.
There are already suitable jobs.
But they are rare.
In the district, the Oberland workshops, which primarily employ people with disabilities, are now creating 54 jobs for mentally ill people.
The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on Tuesday on Lausitzer Strasse in Geretsried.
Groundbreaking in a small circle
"I would have loved to have welcomed the representatives of the funding agencies," said Oliver Gosolits, Managing Director of Oberland-Werkstätten.
“These are the Bavarian Family and Social Center, the Federal Employment Agency and the Upper Bavaria District.” However, due to the pandemic, the event could only take place on a small scale.
Gosolits recalled the beginnings of the project, into which 5.8 million euros will flow.
“Today, an almost five-year preliminary planning phase comes to an end.” In 2016, they started looking for a plot of land in the area.
In view of the general real estate situation in the Oberland, one had to cope with some setbacks.
"So I'm all the happier about this stroke of luck with this property in the immediate vicinity of our main plant in Geretsried." Here you can use synergies that could not be implemented at another location.
Dietlinde Schoch, the operations manager in Geretsried, added the property from a Munich family on a long lease for 75 years.
Above all, the new place should be a safe place for people.
Oliver Gosolits, managing director of the Oberland workshops
"Above all, the new place should be a safe place for the people," said Gosolits.
“A place where you can calmly pursue an activity.
This is an important point in order to be able to start over again after an illness. ”Because the target group has often already had negative experiences with the performance society and the pressure on the general labor market.
With the new "Oberland Impulse" offer, the workshops would close an important supply gap.
Corresponding offers are currently only available in the neighboring districts of Weilheim-Schongau and Miesbach.
In times of inclusion, a new workshop building is often the subject of public criticism, admitted the managing director of Oberland Werkstätten.
But the decision was made consciously for this project in order to give people from a safe environment the opportunity to gain a foothold again, said Gosolits.
Once founded as a parents' initiative
Founded as a parents' initiative so that children with intellectual disabilities get a job, the workshops have changed dramatically, said Chairman of the Board of Directors Helmut Guggenmoos.
The "handicrafts" has become a business enterprise that can be seen.
In the past, people were mainly employed with mental deficits.
But about 15 years ago a change began: There are more and more people with mental illnesses who need other services.
District Administrator Josef Niedermaier tied the key word inclusion in his greeting.
The company is having a very lively discussion as to whether exclusive offers are right.
Because, in the opinion of some of the participants, every disabled person should be able to work in every company.
Then there is the other part of the discussants, for whom both - exclusive as well as inclusive offers - would belong together: "Protect and prepare, not exclude and respond to the individual handicap." not impressed by the discussion.
"You do both."
Inauguration in about 1.5 years
The new building is to be inaugurated in around a year and a half.
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