Center for Self-Determination
living for the disabled
Erlangen
The Video offers a brief insight into the work of ZSL Erlangen. Managing Director Christian Pfeuffer explains how the association is committed to the full inclusion and social participation of people with disabilities and supports a self-determined life through advice, personal assistance and a wide range of projects.
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What we offer
AssistanceOrganization - AO
Personal assistance enables people with disabilities to lead an independent life in their own chosen living environment and to shape their lives according to their own ideas. An assistant takes over care, housekeeping and individual tasks.
Consulting. Education. Encounter - OBA
We provide advice on all issues relating to disabilities - for example, authorities, forms, social benefits, aids, barriers, personal problems and assistance.
We offer educational opportunities and organize meetings where people with and without disabilities can come together, exchange ideas and enrich each other.
Supplementary independent
Participation counseling - EUTB
The Participation counseling Middle Franconia Northeast offers free, independent and confidential support for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses and their relatives.
Counseling is provided on an equal footing, by counselors who are themselves affected and, if necessary, by telephone, e-mail or at home.
The service is part of the nationwide EUTB project in accordance with Section 32 SGB IX.
from September 2026
School and inclusion support - SIB
The school support service helps children and young people with disabilities to participate independently in lessons and school life. They help in lessons and during breaks as required, promote participation and independence, work together with parents and the school and provide support with applications and cost coverage.
Outpatient assisted living - ABW Bamberg
The Outpatient assisted living (ABW) supports people with disabilities to live independently and autonomously in their own home or shared flat. The help is individually tailored - from coping with everyday life and social contacts to dealing with the authorities, crisis support, leisure activities and social participation.
Current projects
Perspektivwechsel - Change of perspective
Our offer makes it possible to experience how people with disabilities or chronic illnesses live.
We promote understanding and empathy in workshops, lectures and self-awareness modules - for example with a wheelchair or blindfold.
We raise awareness of inclusion and accessibility in schools, companies and groups.
All offers are accompanied and individually designed by experts with and without disabilities.
Alles was Recht ist - Everything about the law
The project empowers people with disabilities to actively assert their rights.
We inform people with disabilities about new rights and encourage them to clearly state their own needs.
By raising awareness, we show cost bearers the reality of life for people with disabilities and promote understanding among lawyers for the problems faced by people with disabilities in the legal system.
Herzensmensch - Kindhearted
People with disabilities have the same needs for love, friendship, sexuality and family as everyone else. However, it is often more difficult to find contacts or a partnership outside of their own environment.
With Herzensmensch, we support people with disabilities in exercising their right to partnership, sexuality, family and friendship.
Completed projects
You can also discover our previous projects: Many have now been completed, but their impact remains. Take a look back and see how ZSL Erlangen has helped shape inclusion, self-determination and accessibility over the years.
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