Youth aid Schweigmatt and Kaspar Hauser School

The Michael-Gemeinschaft Schweigmatt e.V. is the charitable provider of the fully stationary and ambulatory youth welfare institution Schweigmatt and the SBBZ, Kaspar Hauser School in the east of the district of Lörrach.
High professional flexibility in the care of the individual situations of children and adolescents, relationship work, and the search for suitable educational opportunities offer young people new opportunities, also in close proximity to their families, to find ways out of stale life situations and their own difficulties.

The offers of the institution include an age range of four years until after the age of majority and a range of needs from outpatient offers such as social support groups at regular schools and intensive social groups with inclusive and exclusive special educational offers, up to fully stationary help in various group settings (healing pedagogical infant group, boy group, girl group, self-employment groups and later assisted youth housing). In this way, development paths within the institution and the accompaniment of repatriation can be planned gradually. Qualified parental counselling during and after help is possible.
The Kaspar House School offers an inclusive special educational offer in the Upper Wiesental as well as training at the main school in Raitbach from the first to the 9th. Class for children and adolescents with emotional and social needs. The main task is the constant, reliable willingness to take care of children in close cooperation with the social services of the Jugendamt. As part of the AIB, according to §35 in the SGB VIII, outpatient social work is also offered for difficult-to-reach young people in precarious situations from the age of 14. Capacities for preventing homelessness and providing professional support and advice to young people in special situations are being set up in Aitern in the Upper Wiesental.
Furthermore, the Michael community offers the initial reception capacity for unaccompanied minors (VION and ION UMA) who arrive in the district. A specialist practice for psychotherapy in the institution ensures a timely psychotherapeutic approach. The networking with other help systems such as children and adolescent psychiatry, SPZ, counselling centres etc. is maintained.
The legal bases are §§ 27, 29, 34, 35, 35a, 41 and 42 with 42a in the SGB VIII, as well as the school law of Baden-Württemberg.