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Positive corona balance of Gautinger youth work

2021-09-26T18:44:33.237Z


The previous corona balance of Gautinger youth work is positive. The youth center was able to keep its regular clientele in lockdown - thanks to digital household help and formats such as JUZ-Talk.


The previous corona balance of Gautinger youth work is positive.

The youth center was able to keep its regular clientele in lockdown - thanks to digital household help and formats such as JUZ-Talk.

Gauting

- Social pedagogue Britta Gürtler reported on the activities of the youth center (JUZ) at the main committee meeting of the

Gauting

municipal council with infectious enthusiasm. In lockdown, when it had to close, Gürtler, her teammates Friedrich Federsel and Nathalie von Hammerstein offered the 12 to 27-year-olds video chats in the “virtual open company”, but also walks with confidential one-on-one discussions. The facility on Bahnhofstrasse, which was founded in the mid-1970s, has evidently proven its worth even during lockdown.

Gürtler explained the educational mission statement and the goals of the JUZ: to promote the development of young people, to ensure meaningful leisure activities, to be a place of experience of co-determination, political education, mutual tolerance and to stand for non-violent interaction. It is about "responsible action by the kids, who think very differently," says the social worker. The doors of the centrally located JUZ are open daily from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. And on Monday, Children's Day, “we will acquire the next generation so that their parents can see that they are normal people who work here”.

Open youth work, advice, participation, integration, gender-related education and prevention are on the program of the two educators. "We are play partners, caretakers, psychologists, emergency pastors with data protection, coaches, craftsmen, arbitrators and artists," says Gürtler, who has been on the team for a decade.

In lockdown, voice chats were used via the Discord program. “We managed to keep our regular clientele,” emphasizes Britta Gürtler. The homework help, the games day and formats such as the JUZ talk “What hurts your heart?”, Girls and boys time ran via video chat. For young people “who do not have access to the computer, Gürtler and Co. introduced telephone consultation hours. And with the newly introduced “Talk Walk”, even in lockdown, the kids had the chance to get rid of their problems in a confidential one-on-one conversation.

During the JUZ closure, the young people were able to pick up activity material, for example for making soap, in the “Ratzefummel” stationery shop from local councilor Kirsten Platzer (Independent Citizen of Gauting). Federsel animated her to cook in video live chat. Online cooperation was also carried out with other youth centers. Compared to Starnberg, Herrsching and Gilching, the virtual open company had the most participants. “It's crazy what we learned in lockdown,” summarized Gürtler.

Nevertheless, the youngsters from Gautingen are happy to have been able to come back to the JUZ in person since May 5th.

Gürtler: "They run into us." On average, you reach "25 kids a day".

“The young people can trust us with something: their problems, their lovesickness,” added educator Federsel.

Sometimes even older vocational school students come “who need our help with letters of application”.

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Source: merkur

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