CLW

The Chiemgau-Lebenshilfe-Werkstätten arose after parents of children with impairment founded the Lebenshilfe Verein Traunstein. What began in 1972 as a shelter workshop developed in the run of the years into a stronghold within the working world for individuals with a mental or psychological deficiency. These persons were thus offered various opportunities to participate in a working environment within the workshop or in enterprises in the general workforce.

Not only did the number of persons engaged in the workshops increase with time, but so did the educational requirements that invariably arise in workshops for challenged individuals. From their initially purely protective character in the early seventies the Chiemgau-Lebenshilfe-Werkstätten evolved more and more into an institution for personal advancement and education.

In the interests of its clients the Chiemgau-Lebenshilfe-Werkstätten has always incorporated current developments to a high standard. This spreads from the adoption of educational concepts, the founding of an independent department for vocational training, certification of the workshops as an educational institution, the establishment of an integration service, the integration of workshop charges accompanied by job coaches into the general workforce, right up to the realization of their own personal budgets.

Now it is time for the Chiemgau-Lebenshilfe-Werkstätten to take yet another step, to provide an active contribution toward national and European recognition of vocational certifications for cognitively challenged persons. To this end the Chiemgau-Lebenshilfe-Werkstätten will bring its experience in training persons into the project EQF meets ECVET and support its partners as optimally as possible in attaining this aim.

Contacts: Marlies Krumböhmer
Address: Bodelschwinghstrasse 2, 83301 Traunreut, Germany
Phone: +49 172-698 3001
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webpage: www.clw-traunreut.de