To be closer to the citizen: With this goal in mind, the youth welfare office in the district office has been restructured this year.
The authority management is very satisfied with the result.
But as in many other areas, there is one thing missing in particular: personnel.
Fürstenfeldbruck
- Already in April the restructuring took place on the basis of the model project “Youth Welfare on Site” (JvO) in Puchheim.
The district is now divided into five social areas: Fürstenfeldbruck, Olching / Gröbenzell, Puchheim / Eichenau, Germering and the western district.
A JvO team is responsible for each.
Among other things, these teams also take on the tasks of the previous work areas of family support, foster child service and the “Separation, Custody, Handling” department, which have since been dissolved.
A central foster care service was set up in the youth welfare office.
He takes care of the recruitment, training and allocation of caregivers.
With the restructuring, tailor-made help has been created that is accepted and also used by the families, says Dietmar König, head of the youth welfare office.
“We are closer to the citizen.” However, there is still a bit of tweaking with the staff.
“We have good staffing levels in four of the five social rooms,” says König.
Only in the western district is the situation still difficult despite newly recruited employees.
If help is needed beyond mere advice, the youth welfare office will commission a so-called family council.
This is a mandatory requirement for further youth welfare measures, with the exception of outpatient therapies and school support.
At the family council, the young people and their families are more closely involved in the decision-making process.
According to the youth welfare office, families have so far been largely positive about this.
Already 170 family councils
Two external agencies are commissioned to carry out the family councils.
A total of around 170 family councils have been asked so far, most of which have also taken place, according to the youth welfare office.
The family councils are deliberately not carried out by social pedagogues, but by lay people.
According to König, enough people who want to do this have been found.
"But there are still more."
The Youth Welfare Office's approach to child welfare risk has become significantly more professional through the establishment of the Central Contact Point for Advice, Mediation and Intervention (BVI).
Risks to child welfare would be dealt with reliably in a short time, and at the same time more conversations would be held than before.
The JvO teams would be noticeably relieved by the BVI.
The opening times of the BVI are to be adjusted to those of the district office from October.
In general, the youth welfare office found that most of the work processes were accelerated by the restructuring.
"Complaints about delayed processes are currently only received occasionally," says the report that was presented to the youth welfare committee.
