Children and Youth offers in the m|c

Children and adolescents need free spaces to exchange experiences in an untroubled way and to test different roles and options to act. In order to also give adoslescents with disabilities this chance to disengage themselves step by step from their parental home, we offer a manyfold leisure programme.
We provide the free spaces for the youth to create themselves a self-determined spare time along with their peers.
We use the places the youth visits anyway because integration is an important thing for us. Where there is already existing a youth culture is where also young people with disabilities will feel well and belonging to. Be it the youth centre or the bowling alley - the main thing is that something is going on!

The main principle for us is that the adolescents get the chance to get to know each other and to make friends. In the groups there is the chance to experience how others get along with the changes and the new needs of entering puberty.

To have a good time with each other and to celebrate is part of the story as well as the exchange of experiences with problems at school or frustation about parents and teachers.

What to do in the group?

Anything you like. The groups give room to have a shot a at most various activities together. The adolescents can enjoy themselves in company, relax after school, build relationships and develop interests together. At any rate they have a part in the decision-making about their programme!

Also adventure and outdoor education is at large loom for the youth. Smaller trips to the next ice cream parlour or net-café are part of the programme as much as farther excursions within or outside of Bremen.

What about the parents?

Parental involvement is important for us. Not only the youth faces their daily fight with the growing-up. The parents, too, are accompanied by smaller and bigger concerns during that time.

Furthermore there are several disposition with various content offered throughout the year, the major part of which are encouraged by the parents themselves. Such can be information-events like visiting accomodation facilities or questions about changes in laws or attendances at workshops. If you have any ideas yourself, please give us a call!