Help with reading, afternoon care, prevention of violence – the Staudinger power plant supports a number of programs for children. The objective common to all the projects is to give the children strength and assist families. This is why the Staudinger power plant accepts social and community responsibility in the region. The collaboration is on a long-term basis in every case, so as to ensure the projects have a sustained life.

St. Josef day-care center in Kleinauheim

In Kleinauheim we are helping the Catholic parish of St. Peter and St. Paul to set up a day-care group in the St. Josef day-care center. The idea is to make more facilities available for morning and afternoon care of school children in Kleinauheim. The group is organized on the principle of extended mixed-age groups – extended in the sense that there is joint care of children aged three to ten. Mixed-age groups promote the development of social skills.
The basic idea also includes extended cooperation between the day-care center and the primary school, so as to ease the transition from kindergarten to school for both children and their parents.

Johannes Kepler School in Kleinkrotzenburg

In Kleinkrotzenburg we are supporting the re-establishment of the Johannes Kepler school library. It is hoped that the new facility will motivate children to read more and develop into competent readers at the earliest possible age.

The additions to library stock will include non-fiction, adventure books and children's classics from Astrid Lindgren to Otto Preussler. The school library will have a lending system equipped with a bar code scanner.

“No fists” project at day-care centers in Grosskrotzenburg

In Grosskrotzenburg we are helping to implement the “No fists” project at three nursery schools (parish kindergarten, St. Laurentius kindergarten, St. Vinzenz kindergarten) and the parish all-day nursery.

The “No fists” project was developed by the Prevention Center in Heidelberg. The aim of the violence prevention program is to develop children's social-emotional skills and promote independent and responsible behavior. The program includes training courses for nursery school teachers and parents. It also contains specialized teaching materials which are used in the day-care centers.

Prevention of violence at primary schools in Obertshausen

The Obertshausen Prevention Council is an independent body which promotes violence prevention projects for children. The council seeks to implement its own basic principles, which were developed in collaboration with Birgit Ehrmann, a graduate educator. The main focus is strengthening communication skills. The council has already implemented violence prevention projects in nursery schools. We help the council to put its violence prevention measures into effect in primary schools in the town. The target group for the prevention work is the teachers. They are trained by experienced psychology graduates to create in their classes an atmosphere of mutual trust, reciprocal respect and conflict resolution by cooperation.

As a further step, the program is due to be extended to include secondary schools as well.