New wind at Caritas: Sybille Schilling optimizes social services!

New wind at Caritas: Sybille Schilling optimizes social services!

From October 2025, Sybille Schilling will take over the position of the managing regional manager of the Caritas Association for the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. When she took office, she was warmly welcomed and had the opportunity to get to know numerous nice people. As part of her first day, she visited various locations of the association in Bad Soden-Salmünster, Freiche Court, Hanau and Gelnhausen, where she got to know outpatient care and consulting services. In front of it, Schilling headed the East Consulting Center of Caritas Offenbach and thus brings valuable experience into her new role. Schilling emphasizes the importance of self -reflection and personal motives for the choice of career.

A respectful handling and good cooperation at eye level are particularly important. Your goal is to have satisfied employees who like to do their work. It identifies itself strongly with the guiding principle of Caritas, which is: "See and act". In view of her new challenges, she directly addresses the economic stability of the association and the securing of jobs.

challenges and perspectives

Sybille Schilling is also faced with significant challenges, including the financial security of the services of the Caritas Association and the acquisition of specialist staff. The organizational changes within Caritas and the further church, which is in a crisis, are aware of it. In addition, she expresses the need to sharpen Caritas' profile as a Catholic carrier.

Important topics that she wants to address are digitization, climate protection and social division. In particular with regard to digitization, she emphasizes that the Caritas Association has to actively intervene in the debate in order to address both the opportunities and the risks of this development. Caritas calls for a "digital pact for the social economy". This is crucial to ensure that digitization not only promotes the benefits of fewer people, but also does not exclude numerous people. Social services are increasingly conveyed through platforms, often with inadequate technical quality.

digital responsibility

Based on the positions of the German Caritas Association (DCV), it becomes clear that the organization wants to shape a digital future that enables more participation for everyone. An important goal is to promote self -determined handling of personal data and to guarantee common good -oriented use of this data. The central demands also include promoting AI use in the social area to prevent discrimination.

Schilling sees the need to develop new digital care and accompanying concepts. The introduction of digital advisory formats, such as Caritas online advice, has already received great demand and should be further developed quickly. However, digitization also carries risks, which is why data protection and IT security are of great importance for Caritas. The state must create a framework that defines standards and guarantees consumer protection.

Caritas has set itself the task of supporting socially disadvantaged people in digital participation and using a digital educational offensive in partnership with others to establish the methods of digital communication in the diocesancarita associations.

Finally, Schilling estimates that she finds energy in nature and motorcycling to switch off and recharge your batteries. Osthessen News reports in these first steps in the Caritas Association for the Main-Kinzig-Kreis and now is willing to actively tackle the upcoming challenges.

The future digital design of the welfare state is at the top of the agenda. Caritas has clearly positioned itself in order to promote social justice and participation, whereby the update of its positions in autumn 2023 and the publication of a new white paper is essential steps. Caritas Digital emphasizes the need for a comprehensive structural reform of the social service system in order to use the opportunities of digitization najleicher.