At the Bruderhaus workshops in Dettingen/Erms, people with disabilities and those with mental health conditions are given the opportunity to participate in working life and develop their professional skills. Experienced specialists support employees on their path to working life or as part of their vocational rehabilitation. The workshops offer around 100 workstations, some of which are specially designed for people with special needs. The services provided include assembly and manufacturing, packaging and labelling, as well as incoming and outgoing goods checks. Since 1998, ElringKlinger has commissioned the workshops to package cylinder head screws. Initially around 4,800 screw sets were packaged in a year; by 2023, some 1.2 million screw sets were being packaged annually. This development alone shows what a success story ElringKlinger’s collaboration with BruderhausDiakonie has been. As well as bringing benefit to ElringKlinger, the workshops give the people working in them a wealth of self-confidence: being involved in work and in a production process means having a stake in the community and amounts to a form of integration into society.