Sheltered workshops

The sheltered workshops (“Diakonie Werkstätten”) care for over 1000 people with physical and mental disabilities as well as people with severe disabilities and psychological impairments in five workshops and two day-time care centers (“Tagesförderstätten”).

The sheltered workshops offer participation in working life through a two year long job training and work in many different fields afterwards. Considering their abilities and likings people with disabilities find tasks at the assembly line, producing in-house products or work in the service sector.

Additionally, character-supporting and therapeutical activities accompany working in the sheltered workshops.

The day-time care centers are an institution which enables people with great need to participate in social life.

Nonprofit corporations for socio-professional reintegration

The nonprofit corporations for socio-professional reintegration (“Integrationsbetriebe kreuznacher diakonie gemeinnützige GmbH”) are part of the general job market, in which people with and without disabilities can work together.

More than 40 percent of the employees are people with disabilities. They earn agreed or locally customary wages. By participating in the general economy, the corporations for socio-professional reintegration generate revenues needed for cost recovery.

Different projects like vocational training and employment offer rehabilitative, social and vocational educative help for disadvantaged people in the general job market.