Advisory board for people with disabilities

On 20.05.2025, a meeting of the advisory board for people with disabilities took place at Haus Nahetal. Haus Nahetal is a facility run by the Schwesternverband that provides integration assistance for people with various disabilities. The services are aimed at adults with mental or psychological impairments, mental and/or physical impairments or severe multiple disabilities.

After the opening of the meeting by the Chairman Horst Müller, Mr. Wiedemann introduced Haus Nahetal as the deputy facility manager.

The meeting of 29.04.2025 was discussed at the start of the agenda. The suggestion made at the previous meeting to change the name of the Advisory Board to the Inclusion Advisory Board for People with Disabilities will be submitted to the Main Committee and City Council for a decision. Mr. Müller also looked back on the Advisory Board's participation in the European Day of Protest for the Equality of People with Disabilities on 5 May. The Advisory Board supported the hands-on campaign at the Rewe supermarket run by Lebenshilfe Obere Nahe.

Another item on the agenda was the situation at the train station and the Nahepassage (formerly the ramp building) and the public discussion about this. Due to the inclusion project in Café Ella's and the barrier-free passage across the Nahepassage in the Nahepassage, the Advisory Board members are locally affected by the measures being discussed to improve the situation. The Advisory Board would therefore like to make a contribution to the public discourse and formulated the opinion that video surveillance on the station forecourt and in the Nahepassage would be welcomed and suggested that a branch of the municipal enforcement service be set up in the station. The statement met with broad approval and was adopted unanimously.

In the agenda item on the status of the working groups, fields of action in the city area were discussed in which an improvement in the toilet and parking situation for people with disabilities is to be achieved together with the city.

The next meeting of the Advisory Board will take place on June 12, 2025 at 5 pm. After two meetings in external facilities (Lebenshilfe Obere Nahe on April 29 and Haus Nahetal), the Advisory Board will then meet again in the meeting room at Georg-Maus-Straße 2. The next meeting of the Advisory Board for People with Disabilities is scheduled for Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 3 p.m.