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The Aufwind Academy is the training program of Aufwind Jugendhilfe in Dortmund and is aimed at professionals who want to specifically develop their professional work in child and youth welfare.[1][6][8] Since the summer of 2024, the Academy sees itself as an internal quality management for the professionals of Aufwind Jugendhilfe and at the same time as a platform for local youth welfare with a network of lecturers and its own premises.[1]
The focus is on practical seminars and further training on topics such as trauma pedagogy, child protection, interviewing techniques, migration law, sexual education basics, psychosocial diagnostics, self-management and Traumakompass.[4][5][6][7][8] The offer is designed to deepen specialist knowledge, strengthen confidence in everyday work and promote reflected, professional work.[2][5]
The mission of the Aufwind Academy can be described as "": It wants to support specialists through qualified further training, professional exchange and application-oriented learning formats.[1][3][6] In particular, , and the strengthening of professional skills are in the foreground.[2][5] With the seminar room in Dortmund, the Academy also creates a place for training courses, conferences and professional meetings.[8][10]
Even if there is no explicit sustainability strategy on the website, several sustainability-related approaches can be identified from the offer: The Academy focuses on the qualification of specialists and thus strengthens the quality of social work and youth welfare in the long term.[1][6] By bundling further training courses, using its own premises and networking regional actors, it also promotes resource-saving, locally anchored educational structures.[1][8][10] The focus on long-term competence development instead of short-term measures is an essential contribution to sustainable impact in the social and educational sector.[1][2]
Overall, the Aufwind Academy positions itself as a specialized training platform for youth welfare, which offers specialists sound knowledge, practice-oriented impulses and a professional learning and exchange space.[1][6][8]
