Germany

FICE GERMANY

Nicole Knuth (1st chairwoman), Stefan Wedermann (managing director)
IGfH (Internationale Gesellschaft für erzieherische Hilfen) is the German national section of FICE.
The association was founded in 1961 near Frankfurt/Main.

The goals of IGfH are:

to bring conditions and needs of young people who receive or who have received child and youth care services into consideration and help raise political awareness
to support self-advocacy, self-organization and participative democratic structures for young people in the public care system
to accept the needs of children and their families without questionning them,
to accept various lifestyles and arrangements of individuals or groups and not to force them to one educational norm,
to find flexible and various solutions for children’s needs,
to develop and support educative communities,
to support the network of professional social work and self-help groups.

Main activities

The organizational approach of IGfH is to bring together various professionals, experts and experts-by-experience in the field and to discuss issues regardless of status and institutional interests. Its intention is to find solutions and to initiate innovations in the field which are in the interest of children and youth.
Organization of conferences and educational trips, publishing books and a magazine („Forum Erziehungshilfen“), doing political lobbying, hosting various participative workshops with young people, political representatives and child and youth care experts, being part of various theory-practice-tranfer projects.

Members:

1 500 members – private persons, representatives of child and youth care administrations, service providers and educational institutions.
Regional groups: groups of interested members who want to discuss regional specific issues with colleagues.
Topic oriented groups: groups meet twice a year and work constantly on issues in specific fields such as girls’ education, drug use and drug addiction, day care, ambulant services.

Delegates:

Members can be elected by the General Assembly. The meeting of the delegates decides on the activities of IGFH.

Contact:

Address: Galvanistraße 30,
D-60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Phone:++49 69 633 9860
Fax:++49 69 633 986 25

Email: igfh@igfh.de
Web: www.igfh.de
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/igfh_ev/

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF EDUCATIVE COMMUNITIES

Germany