Pro Health — pro­Ges

Under the Fede­ral Par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on Act (§ 11 SGB IX) the pos­si­bi­li­ty was crea­ted to car­ry out model pro­jects to streng­then reha­bi­li­ta­ti­on. The Job­cen­ter Frankfurt/Main par­ti­ci­pa­tes in the cor­re­spon­ding sup­port pro­gram­me "reh­apro" with the pro­ject "Pro Gesund­heit — pro­Ges. Akti­vie­rung und Beglei­tung — Wie­der­her­stel­lung der Teil­ha­be am Arbeits­le­ben durch Ein­zel­coa­ching und Gesund­heits­prä­ven­ti­on". The ITA is respon­si­ble for the sci­en­ti­fic moni­to­ring and eva­lua­ti­on of pro­Ges.

Pro­Ges pur­sues the goal of test­ing inno­va­ti­ve ser­vices and/or mea­su­res that are sui­ta­ble

• to pre­vent a chro­nic ill­ness or an immi­nent disa­bi­li­ty,
• to main­tain or res­to­re ear­ning capa­ci­ty,
• to coun­ter­act an immi­nent (par­ti­al) reduc­tion in ear­ning capa­ci­ty,
• to impro­ve social and pro­fes­sio­nal par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on,
• in child and youth reha­bi­li­ta­ti­on, to eli­mi­na­te a signi­fi­cant health hazard, or
• to sub­stan­ti­al­ly impro­ve or res­to­re health, par­ti­cu­lar­ly that impai­red by chro­nic dise­a­ses, inso­far as this may have an influence on later ear­ning capa­ci­ty.

The tar­get group of the pro­ject are cus­to­mers of the Job­cen­ter Frank­furt who, despi­te for­mal employa­bi­li­ty, are not in a posi­ti­on to make ade­qua­te efforts for their reco­very and have dif­fi­cul­ties in app­ly­ing for and accep­ting appro­pria­te social bene­fits.

A health coa­ching sys­tem is to be estab­lished for this pur­po­se. Through con­sis­tent sup­port in the pro­cess of reco­very and clo­se net­wor­king with actors from the respec­ti­ve social sphe­re, impen­ding reduc­tion in ear­ning capa­ci­ty is to be pre­ven­ted and chro­nic ill­nesses and impen­ding disa­bi­li­ty effec­tively coun­te­red. The second focus is pre­ven­ti­ve and aims to con­vey health-con­scious and soci­al­ly inte­gra­ti­ve life­styl­es to cus­to­mers (and their fami­lies). The pro­ject also aims to increase the com­pe­tence of inte­gra­ti­on pro­fes­sio­nals in deal­ing with health rest­ric­tions, through trai­ning cour­ses and coope­ra­ti­on with coa­ches.

The sci­en­ti­fic moni­to­ring and eva­lua­ti­on by ITA covers a broad spec­trum of objec­ti­ves and metho­do­lo­gi­cal approach. Pro­ject set-up and pro­ject and team deve­lo­p­ment are sup­port­ed by a stron­gly demand-ori­en­ted and dif­fe­ren­tia­ted pro­cess of pro­cess moni­to­ring. The eva­lua­ti­on has a for­ma­ti­ve and sum­ma­ti­ve func­tion. It takes into account the most diver­se per­spec­ti­ves on the approach to sup­port, inclu­ding tho­se of the tar­get group its­elf, coa­ches and actors in the social space.