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Indira Haunschild is the new head of the Einstein youth club

2022-01-20T19:07:53.174Z


Indira Haunschild is the new head of the Einstein youth club Created: 01/20/2022, 20:00 "Of course, the kids first try out how I'm feeling. But now I feel accepted”: Indira Haunschild, new head of the Ein-Stein youth center with Rudi Mühlhans, managing director of the Geretsried youth and social work association. Before Corona there were up to 60 visitors a day. The team tries to catch the young


Indira Haunschild is the new head of the Einstein youth club

Created: 01/20/2022, 20:00

"Of course, the kids first try out how I'm feeling.

But now I feel accepted”: Indira Haunschild, new head of the Ein-Stein youth center with Rudi Mühlhans, managing director of the Geretsried youth and social work association.

Before Corona there were up to 60 visitors a day. The team tries to catch the young people © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

Heading a youth club in times of a pandemic is no easy task.

Indira Haunschild accepts the challenge.

Geretsried

– Rudi Mühlhans had to campaign for her with some persistence. The managing director of the supporting association for youth and social work (TVJA) met Indira Haunschild in their home town of Benediktbeuern, where the social work student worked in a bakery. "That's where we got talking. I immediately liked Indira's open and committed manner,” he recalls. The 26-year-old did not actually aim for a management position immediately after completing her studies at the technical college. But after a walk together and further talks, she accepted the offer to lead the open youth club Ein-Stein.

Since October, Indira Haunschild has succeeded Lilly Schöffmann, who switched to the non-profit limited company "Dorfleben Walchensee".

Right from the start, the 26-year-old was "thrown in at the deep end," says Mühlhans.

She and her team had to organize the district festival, which was celebrated on the later day of urban development funding.

Haunschild, who was born in Murnau and recently married, gained practical experience in social work with young people in a home in Bad Tölz during his studies.

There she cared for girls and boys from difficult family backgrounds who were housed as inpatients.

At the Ein-Stein, she and three other employees are responsible for visitors between the ages of eight and 27.

Also read: Two new faces at the youth and social work association

The focus is currently on ten to fifteen-year-olds, says Haunschild. The topics in this group ranged from the question of which secondary school to go to after elementary school, puberty and first love to career choice. Family and friends also played a big role.

Of course, all of this has been overshadowed by Corona for almost two years. Before the outbreak of the pandemic, between 50 and 60 visitors came to Ein-Stein every day, according to Mühlhans there are now only around 20. Those who have not been vaccinated or have recovered are only allowed to stay outdoors, even with a negative corona test. The Ein-Stein-Team is ready for it. One employee offers a program outside, another inside. "We have set up a fire bowl where you can warm yourself or even fry stick bread," reports Haunschild. The young people would have to chop wood themselves to heat the building. They had previously repaired the ax themselves. This has the positive effect that they immediately experience what they are doing as meaningful. This promotes community and a sense of self-efficacy.

The pandemic is making this process difficult.

The consequences will be felt in youth work for a long time.

However, the employees in the two youth centers, Saftladen and Ein-Stein, as well as in mobile youth work, tried to support the young people in Geretsried as best they could. Haunschild wants to use the turn of the year to "look positively ahead" together with the Ein-Stein visitors, as she says. The motto for 2022 is "City of the future - I move something". Experiences in nature are important to her personally. Excursions to the surrounding area or even to the Kochelsee or Sylvensteinsee are planned.

The new manager wants to keep the cooking and baking with the visitors, which was well received in the past. In this context, she experienced one of her first positive surprises, she remembers: "Two around 14-year-olds were sitting on the couch and were engrossed in their cell phones. Just for fun, I asked if they would like to bake cookies with me. And lo and behold: they participated enthusiastically and told me a lot of personal things along the way.”

By listening, joint activities and games, the new director wants to gradually gain the trust of the youth center visitors.

In the past three months, she's done quite well: "Of course, the kids first try out how I'm feeling.

But now I feel accepted.” The social worker says of herself that she is authentic and puts her heart and soul into it.

The girls and boys noticed that.

Incidentally, there have already been seven directors at Ein-Stein who have just come from university.

"They all mastered their task excellently," says Mühlhans in retrospect.

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Source: merkur

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