Fachlichkeit und Mut als Basis für den Schutz von Kindern und Jugendlichen (mit Behinderung) vor sexualisierter Gewalt

Abstract

The paradigm shift from institution-centredness to person-centredness is the basis for the protection against violence both for integration aid and for child and youth welfare. In this way, the power relations in the support system can be modified and the focus can be placed on respecting boundaries and avoiding the legitimisation, trivialisation, concealment and glorification of violent behaviour in the system. There are certainly many reasons why this has not yet happened, one of which could be the lack of attention to professionalism in competition with economic efficiency and perhaps also the lack of courage to look. The Federal Participation Act (Bundesteilhabegesetz) now calls on the integration aid sector to make the paradigm shift. For this, it needs massive changes in the entire support system, i.e. courageous actors who set out to put professionalism before economic efficiency to make the system usable for people and to break old patterns.