Streetwork

• is low-threshold social work
• is a current method of social work and youth work.
• adresses target groups, who are not reached by other methods of social work (homeless, addicts, adolescents, sex workers,...)
• is partial and campaigns for the concerns of the particular target group.
• represents the interest of people whos living space and place of socialization is the public space
• depends on long-term strategies, consistency and professional relationship.

Streetwork means precisely:

• Streetworkers act in the living environment of the particular target group.
• Spontanous Acting in crisis situations.
• Continuous contacts and relationship building.
• Self-organized working and self-responsible decisions in the particular field of responsibility, on the basis of aim-oriented procedures.

Services:

• Immediate support: short-term stabilization, supply of basic needs.
• Long-term support: stabilization of the personality, developement of own perspectives, encourage social integration
• Case work or group work.
• Support in problematic situations (relationship, addiction, formation, ...)
• Leisure time activities: positive self-expression (sports, music, culture, outdoor education,...)
• Companionship and support in awkward situations