The support association of the family care organization works 6,490 hours – the board of directors is confirmed in office

Created: 12/30/2022 5:34 am

General meeting of the association promoting the family care organization: (from left) head of operations Anne Kurzer, the family caregivers Susanne Schraml, Yvonne Köhler, Bianka Langer, first chairman Peter Demmelmair, Livia Kaiser and Martha Holzmann (secretary).

© Karl Bock

Bad Tölz – The Friends of the Familienpflegewerk Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen were able to come up with a slight plus in the cash register at the most recent general meeting.

As treasurer Christine Bock reported, the income for 2021, mainly from donations, increased by a good 1,000 euros compared to the previous year.

No figures are available for the current year.

Despite the Corona crisis, the five trained family carers have been in great demand in recent years, as the report by operations manager Anne Kurzder from Bad Heilbrunn shows.

While restraint was still noticeable in 2020, the number of assignments increased again.

Kurzer: "There was a lot of uncertainty about a possible risk of infection at first, but when the affected families reached their limits, we were asked more again."

Youth Welfare Office: Coordinating child protection agencies were deployed with over 70 families

The youth welfare office also mediated numerous assignments in the district.

In total, the trained carers were in 73 families in 2021 and worked 6,490 hours.

Almost 5,000 were financed by the health insurance companies, 1,500 hours were worked on behalf of the youth welfare office and the coordinating child protection agencies (KoKi).

The KoKi service is based in the Tölz district office and organizes consultation hours in the district, where questions from young parents are answered.

There were a total of 17 assignments in Bad Tölz, six in Bad Heilbrunn and Lenggries, the rest were in other communities and inquiries from neighboring districts.

In Weilheim-Schongau and Miesbach, for example, no family care is offered, while this has been the case in Bad Tölz for over 50 years.

The reasons for the deployment were, as Kurzeder explained, high-risk pregnancies, cancer therapies and mental illnesses.

Overall, the trend towards many smaller assignments continued last year, the nurses sometimes look after several families per day, which entails problems with organization and many journeys.

The association arose from a change in the statutes, since the cash registers did not pay for all hours

Since the health insurance companies have not paid for all hours of work for years, the "Förderverein des Familienpflegewerks Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen" was founded in 2015 as part of a change in the statutes, which has set itself the task of raising the appropriate financial resources.

This was again successful, as the report by treasurer Christine Bock showed.

Thanks to the donations from the district municipalities, the parishes, the savings bank, the Wittig`sche Foundation and private individuals, a total of 20,000 euros could be transferred to the sponsoring association, the family care organization of the Bavarian regional association of the Catholic German Women's Association in Munich.

The members confirmed the previous local board of directors in office during the assembly in the rectory.

The chairman is the Tölz town pastor Peter Demmelmair, his deputy Anne Kurzer, Christine Bock takes care of the cash register, Martha Holzmann remains secretary.