IKOS Jena
The self - help contact office in Jena is the first place to look when searching for a self - help group or organization.
The staff who works at IKOS:
- give advice and information on those who seek help in this field
- mediate and communicate between potentially interested people and self - help groups
- give support when forming a new group
- help to form associations at the state so as to better represent their interests as a lobby
- represent the interests of self – help- groups in the public and is actively involved in public relations
- consider themselves as professional partners within the social and medical services. The staff members cooperate with third parties such as professional counsellors and therapists
- guarantee a high quality standard of counselling
- work in different network projects
The following self – help groups and organizations exist in Jena:
- AIDS
- Al Anon family groups
- Allergies
- Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, also relatives
- Alcoholics and medication addicted clients, including relatives
- Acoustic neurinoma
- Adapted adults
- Anxiety and panic attacks
- Anonymous alcoholics
- Sexaholics Anonymous
- Aphasia
- Asthma
- Bektherev syndrome
- Birth clinic
- “Blaues Kreuz”: self – group for alcoholics
- Borreliosis
- Cancer
- Cardiac Disease
- Cheilognathouranoschisis
- Children of divorce
- Centre of Diabetes for kids and youth
- CI wearer/cochlear implant wearer
- Creative design
- Crises after giving birth
- Crohn’s disease
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Complaint point for psychiatry
- Day clinic for patients addicted to alcohol
- Deaf group
- Depression
- Diabetes Type 1 kids
- Diabetes-adults
- Disability sport
- Eating Disorder
- Emotionally disturbed: “Lichtblick”
- Endometriosis
- Epilepsy
- Fibromyalgia
- First visits after giving birth
- “Forum Brain” – patients with encephalic disorders and relatives
- “Gleichmaß e.V.” kids need both parents
- “Grüne Damen und Herren”-volunteers who visit patients at the hospital
- Group “Halle” women
- “Group “Halle” men I and II
- Hepatitis C virus infection
- Hepatic cirrhosis and transplantation
- Herzkind e.V. – kids with congenital heart defect
- Help for the autistic child
- High sensitive persons
- “Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe Begegnung Jena” e.V.: support for people with the risk of drug dependency such as:
- Self-help group Newcomers
- Self-help group “New Life”
- Self-help group “New path”
- Self-help group NOFUM
- Self-help group “Mittwochsgruppe”
- Self - help group “Trockene Gesellschaft”
- Home care support point
- IKOS choir – for people with and without handicap
- (In) - continence
- Homosexuality
- Illiteracy
- Initiative for orphaned parents
- “INTENSIV kinder”: highly care - dependent
- Kidney transplanted patients
- Klinefelter syndrome, meetings in Gotha
- Late repatriate and contingent refugees
- Left-hander, retrained
- Lung cancer, meetings in Bad Berka
- Marfan syndrome
- “Meeting and Education” during retirement phase
- Microsomia, national group
- miteinAnderS – awareness training for lesbian, gay, bisexual and and transgender way of life
- Trauercafé: “Mourning coffee bar”
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Mutism
- Narcolepsy
- Neurodermatitis
- Neurofibromatosis and Neurofibromatosis type 1
- neuroKind- multiple disabled kids
- Obesity
- Orphaned parents
- Osteoporosis
- PAD-panic, anxiety and depression
- Parents of drug and alcohol addicted kids and youth
- Parents of disabled kids
- Parents of intellectually gifted kids
- Parents of highly graded hearing impaired kids (CI wearer)
- Parents of kids with Down’s syndrome
- Parents of kids with dyscalculia
- Parents of kids with cancer/mentally disordered
- PCO syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome (national)
- Permanent hearing damage
- People without salaried jobs
- “People and shelter”: Asyl e. V.
- Physical disability
- Plasmacytoma, Multiple myeloma and lymphoma
- Poliomyelitis
- Postpartal depression
- Prostate cancer
- Rheumatism
- Relatives of mentally sick people
- Retinal detachment, peripheral retinal degeneration
- Self – determined life of disabled people
- “Seniors talking- getting older in the neighborhood”
- Sepsis
- Social phobia
- Single parents
- Stoma wearer, ILCO
- Stroke
- Support for refugees
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Tinnitus
- Transsexuality
- Tumor
- Unemployed persons
- Urinary bladder tumor
- “Väteraufbruch für Kinder”: group for fathers who live separate from their kids
- Vestibular Schwannoma, national
- Victims of right - winged violence
- Visually handicapped and blind people
- Vitiligo
- Woman in need
- Women support group after cancer
- Weekly discussion group for mentally sick clients
- Youth migrants
- Young cardiac suffering children
- Young people with Multiple Sclerosis