As of: February 27, 2024, 5:49 a.m
By: Dieter Dorby
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A guide for everyone through the thicket of social offers: In the Miesbach town hall (front from left) the new chairman, Dean Michael Mannhardt, and his deputy, Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller, together with (back from left) Caritas district manager Petra Schubert, daycare network manager Hans Grasser, District Administrator Olaf von Löwis, Pastor Erwin Sergel and Diakonie division manager Anna Porer founded the Bürgerzentrum eV.
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The social network with all its help and offers is large - so large that hardly anyone has a comprehensive overview.
The Citizens Center Association, which was founded in Miesbach on Monday, wants to remedy this weak point.
Miesbach – The aim is to provide those seeking help with competent contact points without detours.
A small association was founded yesterday in the Miesbach town hall to achieve great things.
The aim is to develop a navigation system that will help those affected, social providers and authorities to directly find suitable offers and responsible specialist offices.
Founding members act as private individuals
We now have the Catholic dean Michael Mannhardt as the new chairman, Miesbach's mayor Gerhard Braunmiller as his deputy, Hans Grasser (head of the Catholic daycare association Schlierach-Leitzachtal) as treasurer, Anna Porer (head of the Diakonie in Rosenheim) as secretary, the Protestant Pastor Erwin Sergel as auditor, Petra Schubert (district manager of Caritas Miesbach) and district administrator Olaf von Löwis founded the Citizens Center Association.
What is remarkable is that all founding members act as private individuals and not as representatives of their employers.
For good reason, as Löwis and Mannhardt emphasized.
Obtaining approval from the respective committees in-house would have meant too much delay, as the company should be founded quickly.
Corporations and associations can now join as members.
According to Braunmiller, the focus of the community center is “network formation and interface maintenance”.
Pastor Mannhardt made it clear what this means: “There is a great need to network everything together and benefit from each other.” All founding members confirmed the need for such a pivotal point.
“There is almost everything in the district,” stated Grasser.
“Now it’s about connecting the individual building blocks.” But the financial structure of the individual competitors doesn’t allow for that.
“It’s a jungle”
Schubert emphasized: “We don’t want to build parallel structures, but rather make the existing ones more transparent.
Everyone has their own network and they should be brought together.” Any competitive spirit should be reduced in the interest of the citizens affected.
“We can create the greatest possible benefit with this club and build a strong relationship.”
“We don’t know everything there is in the district.”
You could create transparency, for example, with a homepage or through personal contact - the exact implementation remains to be seen.
Target groups are those affected, authorities, associations and social institutions.
Because even specialist departments have problems keeping an overview of everything, as Schubert explained: “We don’t know everything that exists in the district.” What Löwis confirmed: “In many cases we don’t know enough.
It's a jungle, and so far citizens often have to fight their way through it alone.
We want to change that.” The community center is intended as a kind of program – “a process that is always evolving.”
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The project was developed and existing service structures analyzed for almost four years.
Grasser presented the idea to the Miesbach city council in April 2023.
The tenor of the city councilors: an idea worth supporting, but there is no money for it.
The founding members took this to heart.
The proposed positions – one full-time and one part-time – are to be financed through Leader funding and donations.
Will that succeed?
The leader application is now submitted when the club is founded.
The workspaces are vague.
According to Grasser, they should be mobile, even in members' rooms.
The postal address is Mannhardt's Miesbach parish office on Pfarrgasse.
When practice makes it so confusing, Grasser clarified the need for support in the daycare center: Depending on the topic, different bodies are responsible.
The first point of contact is usually the teacher, “but she often doesn’t know how she can help.”
The community center should find solutions quickly.
What Löwis emphasized: “The worst answer for us is: I’m not responsible for that.
That shouldn’t be the case.” That’s why the planned network is to be rolled out to the entire Miesbach district.
“We have to become a citizen-friendly society,” demands Löwis.
“This is a process that is just beginning now.”
ddy