managing intercultural diversity: how organizational development supports projects dealing with...

Managing Intercultural

Diversity

How organizational

development supports projects

dealing with young homeless

migrants in Berlin

Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:

key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness

8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

Framework




project “organizational development and

intercultural diversity management”

located: Diakonie Berlin-Brandenburg-

schlesische Oberlausitz: umbrella organization

for social welfare of the protestant church on

federal-state level Berlin-Brandenburg, not

limited to church organizations

ESF co-financed

Numbers




2004 14% of all homeless people

(amongst those using help)

2010 21% (real numbers are likely to be

much higher)

31% and 69% (only 18% of adult

homeless people are women)

source: BAGW 2013/2-3

Ways in




young unaccompanied

minors exceptional people

from too narrow social

enviroments (punks)

well situated western

youngsters (thrill

seeker) illegalized students with

visum for a different

european country

young migrants who

want to move out

with/without their

parents help young migrants

defeated by legal

constraints to fit into

the system (school,

work, flat)

children leaving

institutions

runaways

Comparison to « normal »

young homeless




on average more children in families with

migrants: more likely to have less room: more

likely the need to move out and little chances to

find a flat or a room

educational system in Germany is highly

differentiated and in early ages already pupils

with less support drop out: less chances to catch

up later: higher chances to be unemployed: less

chances to earn enough to provide for the basic

needs without help

Comparison to « normal »

young homeless




highly segregated state school system:

difficulties to change schools between states:

harder to keep up after the family moved from a

different country

transition from school to jobs is predisposed for

drop outs: less and less jobs for untrained

people: hardly any training on the job: more

needs to fit into the streamline system of dual

training after school

Please don´t confuse




equal treatment equal rights

How does the legal situation

look like




securing basic needs

independently (jobs, living,

health)

specific psycho-social needs

(between youth and adulthood) living conditions (flat, room)

to be supported by: Jobcenter

to be supported by: Youth Office

to be supported by: Homeless

Services

Ways out




Wagoncamp and begin a process of

entering the legal system (f.e. Rocky)

friends: funding a family (to get a flat)

swing migration (in fall to the south, in

summer in Berlin)

prostitution

(back) to a different (home) country

death (violence, substance abuse, (cold))

Topics: work, living, health




basketing (singing, juggling)

black labor market (babysitting, cleaning,

dealing, bars, prostitution)

begging

topics: work, living, health




friends

wagon camp (f.e. KØPI)

street (rough sleepers, night shelters)

Foto: Tagesspiegel

01.03.2013 Mike

Wolff ↓

← Foto: google maps

Topics: work, living, health




general health condition

no health insurance

substance abuse

trauma

Recent development




more and more families end up homeless and

the homeless aid structures are not used to this

situation yet (only few options)

children are taken into care very quickly if

parents become homeless, instead offering help

to the family as a whole

local government branches do not agree how to

deal with the situation, push the responsibility

from department of youth to department of

homeless

Recent development




young homeless migrants do not reach migrant

information offices – they could help in some

ways but not with homeless aspects

My project offers




trainings, coaching, information materials

Information like these booklets

organizational development

structural interventions, knowledge transfer, contacts

(visualization)

network (amongst the intervening projects and

cross professional)

advocacy (politics, administration)

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Examples of my project offers




trainings, coaching, information materials

Coaching team leaders

Trainings “special needs of trauma-survivors”

Raising cross cultural awareness

organizational development

Improvement of process management

Team structures

Human resources

advocacy

No more parallel structures, implement action against poverty for

all who need it

“I could spend my whole day providing for basic needs but than

next month the situation would still be the same.”

Examples of where to go if you are

young and homeless in Berlin




Karuna

Klik

Amaro Foro (Roma)

Gangway

Straßenkinder e.V.

Pfefferwerk

MMM

Ambulanzbus

MUT

Jenny de la Torre Stiftung

Drugstop, FixPunkt

Foto: Karuna →

Foto: Klik ↓

References

Tagesspiegel 01.03.2013 Mike Wolff

BAGW position: Services for Migrants experiencing Homelessness

and Housing Exclusion

FEANTSA: Homeless in Europe: Free movement and

Homelessness

D. Quilgars: Youth homelessness. in Feantsa Research

BAGW. Wohnungslos 2-3/2013: Rechtsansprüche junger

Erwachsener in Wohnungsnot und sozialen Schwierigkeiten

verwirklichen und fortentwickeln

AKI. D. Oberwittler: the effects of ethnic and social segregation on

children and adolescents

WZB. R. Hajji: transnational families, experiences of loss and

attachment




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