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Since July 2020, the city of Bonn has been participating in the state program "Kinderstark - NRW schafft Chancen". The aim is to improve the conditions for children and young people to grow up successfully, promote their participation in society and combat child poverty. First and foremost, "kinderstark" is a structure-building program designed to help pool existing strengths. Cooperation and networking between all those actively working towards these goals is to be significantly strengthened.
With the "kinderstark- NRW schafft Chancen" program, the Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKJFGFI) supports the establishment of municipal prevention chains for children, young people and families.
In Bonn, a coordination office in the Office for Children, Youth and Families is responsible for implementing the program. It is part of the youth welfare planning department. The "kinderstark" coordination office promotes the establishment and development of the municipal prevention chain, but also initiates and supports individual prevention projects and measures - for example the Bonn family portal and the pilot service in pediatricians' practices.
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Cross-network symposium "Acting together in child protection" enters its 3rd round
The 3rd interdisciplinary cross-network symposium took place on June 25, 2025 under the motto "Acting together in child protection". The organizers included Conny Schulte and Katja Schülke from the Victim Protection Working Group, Susanne Absalon and Anja Henkel from the Early Help Network, Angela Schaaf and Andreas Weiland from the Child Protection Network and Sebnem Kar and Maike Steils from the Kinderstark coordination office.
This year's focus was on the topic of "Participation in child protection". Around 120 Bonn professionals from child and youth welfare, the justice system, the police, healthcare and victim protection dealt with the participation of children and young people in child protection for almost 5 hours.
Almost 50 other professionals, some from outside the region, took the opportunity to follow the previous day's part of the event online. After the speaker presentation "Participation as the key to effectiveness in child protection" by Dr. Markus Wegenke from the Freiburg Center for Child and Youth Welfare, the event participants once again had the opportunity to listen to Bonn experts on participation in child protection, ask their own questions and network.
The fact that the event series has a positive effect on interdisciplinary cooperation was shown, among other things, in this quote from a participant: "The exchange has led to a better understanding of the respective perspectives and needs for child protection. We were able to talk to experts from other fields and realize that we as professionals often encounter the same problems."
Podcast
Maike Steils and Sebnem Kar from the Youth Welfare Planning Department of the Office for Children, Youth and Family Affairs tell us even more about the coordination office in the city podcast "Bonn hört hin".
Presentation of the Kinderstark coordination office in the podcast "Bonn hört hin"
The kick-off event for the state program "Kinderstark - NRW schafft Chancen" took place at the Uniclub in Bonn on 1 June 2022. The event was organized by the coordination office kinderstark, which is part of the Office for Children, Youth and Family.
The program, which is designed to create structures, ensures better coordination and networking of preventative measures within the municipality at a strategic level. The aim of the event was to present the topic of kinderstark and the prevention chain and thus to raise awareness among Bonn's stakeholders relating to children, young people and families, to promote cross-sectoral and intersectoral networking of stakeholders in and outside the administration and to enable the development of a common vision for successful growing up in Bonn.
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