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JuFuN — Association for Youth, Family and Community Work

The association is supported by:

• Catholic Parish St. Peter and Paul, Schwaebisch Gmuend-Hardt;
• Catholic Workers Movement (KAB), Diocesean Association Rottenburg-Stuttgart;
• Catholic Workers Pastoral East Wuerttemberg;
• Municipality of Schwaebisch Gmuend;
• East Wuerttemberg County and
• the Vereinigte Gmuender Wohnungsbaugesellschaft (VGW) (on consultant level).

The core competencies of the association are:

• social and professional integration of migrants and repatriates;
• local community development – youth social Work – family work – work with senior citizens.

Locations and areas:

• Youth club: open meeting work, youth group work, homework support, holiday animation work;
• Family and Neighbourhood Centre FuN: language courses, computer courses, café for adults, women evenings, childrens‘ library, book reading promotion, children afternoons, girls groups, crafts groups, sports groups;
• Community work Oststadt: social enterprise Werkhof Ost, project office, German-Turkish family work, community work with senior citizens.

The Werkhof Ost

The Werkhof Ost is a social institution in the Gmuender Eastsite. It is a meeting place for residents, and a training place for community workers and social enterprises. The workshop is equipped with everything necessary for the craftsmen’s service: machinery and equipment for wood working, metal working, painting and gardening.

The Werkhof Ost assists people excluded from the labour market (long-term unemployed with a focus on people with a migration background, repatriates) essentially by two qualification strategies:

• development of social skills
• qualifying employment of so-called „professional quarter assistants“;

The social enterprise Werkhof Ost has as main task the development of new employment areas in the neighborhood context.

This new service offered in the crafts area should promote opportunities of vocational development and integration into the labour market for people living on unemplyment and social benefits (ALG II).

More information:

JuFuN e. V.
Verein für Jugend-, Familien- und Gemeinwesenarbeit
Buchstrasse 145/1
73525 Schwaebisch Gmuend
Phone: +49 7171 181153
Fax: +49 7171 181157

Internet: www.jufun.de
Internet: www.werkhof-ost.de

Contact person:

Mr. Bernhard Bormann, Managing director
Ms. Helga Frey
Phone: +49 172 9041708
E-mail: mail[at]jufun.de
E-mail: bernhard.bormann[at]bbald.de