A swimming opportunity is missing: Aßling administrative community presents a youth survey

Created: 06/28/2022, 09:00

By: Helena Grillenberger

What do the youth in the community want?

In an online survey, children and young people were able to submit their wishes and suggestions to youth worker Viktor Wahlandt (right).

© Stefan Rossmann

In an online survey, the young people in the VG Aßling were able to make wishes and suggestions about what they would like in their community.

The results were presented at the DGH.

Aßling - "Fizzy music" was promised in the announcement - one will be greeted by cool music on Friday evening as soon as you enter the village community center (DGH) in Lorenzenberg.

At the mixer: a boy, twelve years old.

As part of an online survey, the Aßling administrative community recently contacted more than 600 children and young people between the ages of eleven and 18 in their catchment area.

The young people should thus have the opportunity to express their wishes and ideas for youth work in their respective communities (Aßling, Emmering and Frauenneuharting).

Youth survey: It must be clarified what the young people want

Because: "In order to be able to implement successful and goal-oriented youth work, it must be clarified what the young people want," says youth worker Viktor Wahlandt.

After the pandemic and its restrictions, fresh wind should now come back into the Aßlinger youth work.

247 young people from the three communities took part in the survey, most of them aged 13 and 14;

with 164, most of the participants come from Aßling.

Youth survey: Majority of young people go home after school

The questions were used to determine what the young people are currently doing.

The result: 111 of them attend middle school, 59 junior high school, 42 high school and 17 are already in training.

The remaining 31 are divided between FOS/BOS, special schools, "other" or did not want to give any information.

The vast majority of young people go home after school, many to friends with whom they like to meet at the sports field, at home or at the ice cream parlor.

Online survey: 17 percent visit a youth club

131 of the children are active club members or players.

39 of the participants visit a youth club.

"That's 17 percent and that's relatively high," explains Wahlandt.

Normal is a single digit range.

In Aßling, there are even 21 percent of the young people taking part.

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Above all, the participants want a youth club to offer sports and joint excursions.

When asked what leisure activities they would like to see in their community, most of them answered “I don't know”.

Close together on the following places: swimming, skate park and a meeting place for young people.

Leisure activities in Aßling rated mixed

When it comes to satisfaction with the current leisure activities, the young people disagree: the calculated mean value of the votes is 5.18 on a scale of one to ten.

In addition, the youth would like to be more involved in their community;

for example in the design of the new youth club that is to be set up in Aßling, as 122 participants confirm.

At the big closing ceremony last Friday, the results of the survey were first presented: "The survey is intended to help young people to be heard and taken seriously," explains Wahlandt on this occasion.

Later, the young people were allowed to celebrate in the DGH.

Corona - "For many it was the first youth party."

"For many it was the first youth party," says Wahlandt.

Due to Corona, exuberant celebrations were practically unknown to a whole generation.

"It was really an amazing atmosphere," the youth worker continued.

"I haven't experienced anything like this before.

But they had a lot of fun.”

Wahlandt describes the survey as the starting signal.

"And now we have a direction."

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