Organisation: Familienhilfe Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien
(c)Caritas-Aleksandra-Pawloff
The family support organisation “KIB” in Vienna is aimed at parents of children and adolescents with physical, sensory, mental and multiple disabilities who require special medical care. The caregivers are given the opportunity to take time off temporarily from their stressful situation. In order to ensure this, the Caritas Vienna employee cares for the child and adolescent within the environment familiar to them, thus encouraging a positive process of separation from the family. Through their regular presence in the families, family assistants ensure regularly scheduled times off for family members. The aims of assistance are: support and relief for primary caregivers, qualified, reliable and family-affiliated support for children and adolescents, instrumental and emotional support for children and adolescents, prevention of impairment to the family system resulting from overburdening, and assurance of the opportunity to live in the family environment over the longer term.
Internet: www.caritas-wien.at
