Thematic study visit for NGOs - Asociace Manažerů Absolventů, zs

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Thematic study visit for NGOs
Tento projekt je spolufinancován z prostředků ESF v České republice
prostřednictvím operačního programu Lidské zdroje a zaměstnanost a státního
rozpočtu České republiky.
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SUMMARY
Summary
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Project Implementer
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Project partner Nitranská komunitná nadácia
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Project partner SISU Idrottsutbildarna
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Project partner MTÜ Agathe
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Czech NGO´s engaged in the project
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Project description
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Organizations visited
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Project Implementer
About us (the AMA)
The AMA (Asociace manažerů absolventů - The Association of the graduated
managers) was registered as a NGO on January the 21st,2001. It was founded by
the school leavers with a certificate of a two-semestral managing education,
aimed at the managing of the NGOs. These people create the members´ base of
the organization.
The mission of the AMA is the following:
- To support the personal development and the professionalization of
the NGOs managers
- To develop the interdisciplinary and the interregional cooperation of
NGOs
- To support the education of the NGOs workers
- To support the increase of the NGOs standard level through the
system of specialized accreditations
- To support the mutual exchange of experiences, assistances and
supervisions
- To support the professional development of the NGO sector and the
international cooperation in this area
- To support the informal education of the young people.
AMA is a respected educational institution in the area of adult education. A lot of
its programs is accredited by the Czech Department of Education. It is having a
professional team of long-time cooperating lectors, a largely developed
cooperation with the Czech NGOs, a high-quality network of partners from abroad
with whom it has been cooperating for a long time.
AMA is also a sucessful solver of the projects, financed from the European
Union´s financial means.
The AMA programs
AMA is realizing its projects and activities in the three key programs – lifelong
education, international cooperation and the specific educational programs.
The lifelong education
The programs, aimed at the lifelong education, belong to the AMA´s key activities.
The target group of these programs are the adult workers of NGOs, of the
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contributory organizations and of the state administration and self-government. It
is needed to emphasize that the AMA workers are having large experiences in
that area and a stable team of lectors as well. The AMA founders were iniciating
and realizing the educational
activities, whose target was to
professionalize the non-profit
workers and to contribute this
way in favor of the NGOs in
order to become the stable
members of the civic society a
lot of years before the official
origin of the civic associations in
Czech Republic. After founding
of the civic association the
educational
program
„The
managers – a course of effective
managing“ has continued under the AMA heading further without any interruption.
The quality of the course is being guaranteed by the stable team of lectors, whose
strength consists not only of a theoretical erudition, but also- most of all- of their
knowledge of the organizations´ real needs. In all topics is being emphasized their
practicality and practical usability. The actuality of the choice of the lectured
topics is being guaranteed by the supervision of the graduates. Some of them
became later the lectors themselves. A part of this course are also the original
study materials which are usable during the managing of the organization in
practice. The course is finished by processing and oral defence of the
dissertation on the topic solving a concrete problem in the home organization (the
defended dissertations are published on the AMA websites). The sucessful
graduates receive a diploma and they are offered an AMA membership. Through
this education have passed until now hundreds of students across both regions
and sectors.
The lifelong education, emphasizing the better quality and modernisation of
learning at schools and of the schooling facilities is also the main topic of the
project „A way towards the modernisation of education in the Modele - Bohemian
region“. The AMA is realizing this project during the time period since January the
1st, 2010, till June the 30th, 2012, from the European Union´s financial means.
The concrete target of this project is to increase the qualification and the
competitive ability of schools´ and schooling facilities´ workers in the areas of
informative technologies, managing and personal policy through the complex
offer of education During the project´s realization is being emphasized the
highest possible usability of the acquired knowledge in practice. The sucessful
graduates- the managing workers- will be able to be managing in an effective and
rational way and to keep organizing the operations of the facilities in accordance
with the modern and progressive managing methods and at the same time they
also acquire knowledge and skills needed for managing and organization of the
European Union projects. The second group of the sucessful graduates- the
pedagogical workers- are going to acquire the needed progressive knowledge
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and skills for working with the
informative technologies both in the
usual administrative practice and in
teaching.
Another long-time education, whose
target
is
to
strenghten
the
professionality and the internal capacity
of the NGOs,is at present time being
realized in two projects in the Pardubice
region, being financed from the
European Union means.
An independent area is the long-time
cooperation with the Metropolitan
University in Prague. The AMA prepares
and realizes for its students a semester
in the specialisation „The relationship
between the state and the NGOs
sector“.
In the frame of the programs of the
international cooperation are regularly
being realized some projects developing
the partnership and enabling the mutual
exchange of experiences in the area of
common interest especially among the
NGOs. The individual projects issue from the long-time partner relationships and
from knowledge of the concrete conditions and the individual organisations in
Europe (the beginnings of these contacts and of the organisation of the individual
international projects are dating back from the beginning of the 90´s), for instance
in
Sweden,
Estonia,
Slovakia,
France,Great Britain, Germany, and
even in the United States- in the state of
Oregon. AMA holds for the partner
organisations a coordinating role in the
multiple projects where – thanks to
AMA- puts through the communicating
with another organisations. In behalf of
all of them we can name the project,
realized in 2009- Democracy in practice.
In that project were engaged 6
European countries- out of each of them
a four-membered team, consisting from three young people and one experienced
lector. The target of that project was to stimulate and to inspire to the active
attendance at the forming of the civic society both from the universal and from the
local community point of view . The participants received a certificate about
passing through an international workshop.
An actual project (being co-financed from the ESF means through the operative
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program „Human resources, employment rate and Czech Republic´s state
budget“) is the Thematic study visit for NGOs. More about this is described in a
separate chapter.
During the realization of the specifical educational programs is an increased
attention being devoted to the
problem of the integration (into the
society and to the job market)of the
socially disadvantaged young people.
During the last years was being
realized a lot of projects from the
area of the informal education. All of
them were drawn up as international
projects, being financed from the
means of the Czech national agency
„Mládež“ (The Youth). We may divide
them into two main groups. The first
of them are the educational projects,
assigned to the target group of the
socially disadvantaged young people.
More concretely it was about the
young people without sufficient family
surroundings or about the young
people living in the institutional care.
The international projects which were
being realized in cooperation with
Slovakia and Estonia, led young
people towards gaining a complex of
social habits, experiences and skills
including the language equipment
which enables them to rectify their
starting
line
with
their
contemporaries.
The other group of problems is
assigned to the experts who are
working with the marginal young
people. Very sucessful was the
project „The bridges for young people
with limited chances“ which was
realized in 2008. In its realization
were –except Czech Republicengaged yet six other countries.
Almost 50 participants were from 19
NGOs. The target of this a week-lasting educational workshop was to analyze the
specific needs of the socially disadvantaged young people in the individual
countries, to learn preparing the suitable project for this target group and to
increase the qualification of the experts,working with the disadvantaged young
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people. An interesting aspect of that project was the fact that both its preparation
and its realization was attended also by an international group
of the
disadvantaged young people. Partly they were having their own program, partly
they participated in the common activities and this way they might have provided
an immediate and spontaneous feedback to the experts.
An independent chapter in this area are the activities concerning childish trauma
and the diminishing of its results. In that area AMA has been cooperating for a
long time with the paediatric social worker and an expert in that topic- Ms. Julie
Farnam from the state of Oregon, USA. Thanks to her activity and to the financial
support of the Fulbright Foundation a library of the contemporary psychological
literature from that area arose and was given to the experts. In January 2009 was
edited and printed in 1 500 copies the first therapeutic story „A cone for
happiness“.
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Project Partner
Name of organization: Nitra Community Foundation
Contact mail address: Farská 5, 949 01 Nitra, Slovensko
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: +421 37 741 43 45
Contact person: Mgr. Ľubica Lachká – administrator of the foundation
Language: Slovak, English, Polish
Description and history of the organization:
Nitra Community Foundation was established in 2002 as a successor of the Nitra
Community Fund. Its mission is to improve the quality of life in the City of Nitra
and Nitra region through the development of
philanthropy and volunteerism. It is a grant
organization that promotes community
projects to people in different areas - culture,
environment, protection and promotion of
health, leisure time of children and youth,
community development initiatives … So far
the organization has supported 654 projects
with a total volume of 398 131,69 € . The
activity of the organization is more than just
mere money distribution. In the form of grants, the organization mobilizes citizens
in order that they actively participate in solving of problems that worry them and
so that they are useful for their community.
Projects aimed at unemployment reduction
The Foundation is predominantly a grant organization, and thus the projects
aimed at unemployment reduction are not its
priorities. However, there is certain
experience with implementation of such a
type of a project. In the scope of the PHARE
program,
it,
cooperating
with
other
organizations, organized a project for young
unemployed university graduates. The
project consisted of several parts. The first
part was aimed the graduates' acquiring of
language skills and project management ones. In the second part of the project,
a practice for candidates was provided in non-profit organizations in the City of
Nitra over a period of three months. Within three months, they set up community
projects in collaboration with tutors so they tested their theoretical project
management skills in practice. Nitra Community Foundation supported submitted
projects in the form of grants. 22 candidates of the total 28 people acquired a job
during project implementation and shortly after its completion.
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Other projects of the organization (selected):
Open Grant Rounds
Nitra Community Foundation announces them at least three times a year.
Projects on various topics are applied mainly by citizens of the City of Nitra and
Nitra region as well.
Let people help one another
The program supports the development of
corporate philanthropy. Companies buy
artistic items in the form of life-size "Ludo"
pieces. Different target groups (University
students studying art, kids from art school,
autistic children...) implement creative
suggestions of these objects. The
proceeds from the sale of the pieces are
used annually for a grant program which is
always announced on a different topic.
The Donors’ Club
The program brings together people who are willing to help their city and region in
long-term and who also want to actively decide on donor funds. The program is
focused on developing individual donations.
This is our home
It is a grant program supporting projects in the City of Hurbanovo which are
realized in collaboration with Heineken Slovensko, corp. Community programs of
the citizens of the City of Hurbanovo are supported in the scope of this program in
these fields: children and youth’s leisure time, culture, the development of
community activities... The objective of the program is to create a network of
active people willing to participate in improving the quality of life in the city where
they live.
Young philanthropists from Nitra
Volunteer program for peers is a program for young people in which volunteers
work under the guidance of tutors of Nitra Community Foundation. The young
philanthropists administer their own grant program for their peers. Young
philanthropists inform the public about the program, set the selection criteria,
provide consultation and personal monitoring of supported projects. They also
organize Exchange of supported projects where they annually inform the public
about the grant round results and present supported projects.
Campaign "Hand in hand with Nitra"
This is a campaign which supports building of the park Pod Borinou in the vicinity
of the housing estate of Klokočina. The symbol of the campaign is "clapping
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hands"; by buying them, people contribute to building of the park. The campaign
is being implemented for the second year. Famous personalities from culture and
popular music are its supporters. The campaign helps to highlight the Foundation
in the community.
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Project Partner
The official name of the organization: SISU Idrottsutbildarna
Contact Address: Box 418, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.sisuidrottsutbildarna.se/vastergotland
Contact Phone: +4610476 41 02
Contact Person: Sture Gustafsson
Communication languages: English
SISU Idrottsutbildarna – Swedish Sports Education
Swedish sport has its own education organization (SISU). Its main aim is to cater
for the needs of clubs and specialised sports federations in training leaders,
coaches, trainers, instructors, officials and referees.
SISU arranges both courses and conferences in the areas of performance
development, health matters and club development. SISU is also an internal
consultant for member federations and
clubs in such fields as organizational
development and process management.
SISU is an adult education association
that organizes so-called study circles for
clubs. This educational method is based
on the concept of a syllabus being
followed by a group of club members who
share their knowledge and experience. It
is led not by a teacher but by one of the
participants. This means that the
participants know each other well, have
common interests and are striving towards the same goal. The circles are
adjusted to the particular needs of the club. Every year SISU reaches 6 000 clubs
with its local educational activities - study
circles and cultural programmes. It
organizes some 40 000 study circles with
about
450
000
participants.
Approximately 127 000 leaders (i.e. every
fifth sports leader) took part in regional
leadership courses organized by SISU.
SISU Idrottsutbildarna was founded in
1986 and is today an organization made
up of a nationwide organization that is
divided into 21 district organizations. In
terms of the business is the largest out of district organizations Västergötland with
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about 40 full-time workers. Västergötland is the district between Lakes Vänern
and Vättern, and where the major cities called Borås, Trollhättan, Skövde and
Lidköping. In he district is also Vara Folkhögskola, SISU Idrottsutbildarnas main
partners
From a European perspective, the Swedish sports movement in many ways
unique. The basis for the sport is the 20
000 local sports clubs that operate and
the 400-500 000 non-profit leaders, who
stand as leaders for the activity of these
compounds.
More than half of all children and young
people in Sweden are active in sports.
The sporting-free as well as municipal
government, but given a substantial
financial assistance each year. It is
important to have this light on the extent
of sport in the country to understand SISU
Idrottsutbildarnas role and activities.
Half of the activity SISU Idrottsutbildarna currently pursuing is aimed at all the
non-profit leaders who are in sport. Offers courses on basic as well as the
continuation level. The non-profit leader in
the sports movement are both in roles as
leaders of the business but also in its role
as a member of a board or task force.
Another major activity of the target all the
children and young people who are in
sport. Here are the courses in democracy,
to work together in a team, fair play, good
habits, including attitude to alcohol,
tobacco, healthy eating habits, etc.
Social projects
SISU Idrottsutbildarna also has a tradition of working with various social projects.
Projects aimed at people who are unemployed and in need of support and jacking
to get back to work.
Integration Project which is aimed at people who immigrated to Sweden and who
need support and jacking to become established in Swedish society.
Young people who failed in school and who need an aid, and jacking to get back
into
society.
These are examples of projects that are in operation and in most of these projects
we have worked very closely with Vara Folkhögskola.
SISU Idrottsutbildarna and Vara Folkhögskola also have a common tradition of
working together with international projects. This is a tradition which start for more
than 10 years ago. Together we have worked with groups that had the possibility,
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often as part of a longer-term projects or training, establish international contacts.
This has been a conscious pedagogy
to work on personal development,
greater
understanding
of
our
environment and understanding of
democratic values. This international
work has now provided us with
important international network of
contacts, not least in the Czech
Republic but also countries as
Kosovo, Ukraine, England and
Germany.
SISU Idrottsutbildarna and Vara Folkhögskola
Why do we have together been successful in these social projects.
We think that there are many different explanations of successful work and one of
the most important fact is:
Sport in Sweden has a large and extensive network that can open new paths and
establish new contacts that might lead to employment. Sport Movement extensive
business also offers meeting places where contacts are created and friendships
are built. For the migrant, this may be an important input in Swedish society.
SISU Idrottsutbildarna and Vara Folkhögskola has historically a common
understanding of knowledge and long-life-learning, which largely differs from the
general compulsory education. In parallel with the learning and training actively
work with the individual's self-image and self-confidence is a belief that unites us
in this work.
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Project Partner
The official name of the organization: MTÜ AGATHE
Contact Address: Jakobi 41, Tartu, Estonia
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.katoliku.edu.ee
Contact Phone: +372 555 663 63
Contact Person: Aleksandra Sooniste
Communication languages: English
ABOUT US
The history of Tartu Catholic School goes back to 1938 when three sisters of the
congregation of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary bought the present
schoolhouse and started a Catholic Kindergarten there. The Kindergarten was
closed after two years because of the Soviet occupation. The schoolhouse was
turned into the military
building.
Tartu Catholic School was
reopened in 1993 with 15
children. The idea of the
school was educate the
children of our city and
parish according to the
christian and democratic
principles.
Today, the school is 15 years
old.
From a school with one
grade of 15 children it has
become a basic school with
270 children. The increase in
the number of students has
necessitated a need for
constant enlargement.
In spring 2007, in connection
with school enlargement, a
new
structure
and
management system was
developed.
Under Tartu Catholic School
(Education Centre) there operates: kindergarten, pre-school, basic school, culture
centre, Finnish school. The School (Education Centre) has a president. Each
subunit has its head.
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The principles of Tartu Catholic School are as follows:
• Cooperation of school, home and church.
• Religious education
• Supporting discipline.
• English teaching by total immersion method.
• Musical immersion programme.
• Adapting children with special educational needs into the regular classes
Tartu Catholic School is open for families, who have faith in the principles of the
Church and the School`s experience so far, and when considering the ideal of the
child receiving a Christian education starting from an early age (K) until at least
the end of the basic school, the concept of the Tartu Catholic School is to give
each pupil a solid basis upon which to build his/her life. Great interest towards the
Tartu Catholic School and its kindergarten is conditioned by the following
circumstances:
• Secular society that places value on success, money and pleasure, is not
in harmony with the wishes of parents for a safe model for child
development, which prizes such traditionally Christian values as love,
compassion, responsibility and truthfulness. The Tartu Catholic School is
a unique private basic school in Tartu and in Estonia as a whole, which
has steadily grown and expanded because of private initiative and sense
of mission.
• The number of children and thus also the number of congregation
members of Tartu Catholic congregation is constantly growing.
• Tartu Catholic School has earned the trust of parents during its 16 years of
operation.
• Owing to longstanding traditions of Catholic pedagogy and cooperation with
other schools, teachers and methodologists from the whole world, the
school has integrated different models of child upbringing and education
(assertive discipline, total language immersion method, parental
guidance) with careful consideration to Estonian culture and tradition.
Resources of NGO Agathe for the administration of the kindergarten and basic
school.
1. State support for teachers` wages.
2. Local government support.
3. Tuition fee.
4. Revenue from rent.
5. Support for specific purposes/projects.
6. Donations.
Projects aimed at reducing unemployment (reduction of unemployment may
not be the main objective of the project; simply reducing unemployment is one of
the outputs of the project or the project has an impact on reducing unemployment,
at least one of the target groups).
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Enlargement of Tartu Catholic Education Centre
In October, 2008 Tartu Catholic School started the process of buying the new
building for Tartu Catholic School and Kindergarten.
With the enlargement process Tartu Catholic School will give work for 15 teachers
in addition to those (30) who are already working in our school, and 8 kitchen and
cleaning workers in addition to those 10 who are already working in our school.
Other projects of the organization
Projects in the last three years:
• Phare CBC
• Youth in Action (Euroopa Noored)
• Benefits from the Council of the Gambling Taxes
• Culture Capital of Estonia
• Estonian National Culture Foundation
• Non-Estonians' Integration Foundation
• Association of Estonian Music Schools
• Comenius
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Czech
NGO‘s
engaged in the project
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The list of organizations
Centrum J.J.Pestalozziho, o.p.s.
ŽIVOT 90 - Jihlava
HESTIA, o.s.
FORMIKA, o. s.
Asociace rodičů a přátel zdravotně postižených dětí v ČR, o.s.
Domov sv. Karla Boromejského
Povídej
Svaz neslyšících a nedoslýchavých v ČR, Krajská organizace
Vysočina
Základní škola a Praktická škola SVÍTÁNÍ, o.p.s.
Máme otevřeno?, o.s.
Fokus Mladá Boleslav, sdružení pro péči o duševně nemocné
KOUS Vysočina
JAHODA
Oblastní unie neslyšících Olomouc
Centrum multikulturního vzdělávání, o.s.
Asistence o.s.
Asociace rodičů a přátel zdravotně postižených dětí, Klub č. 70,
PRAHA 3
Alfa Human Service
Denní centrum Barevný svět
APPN, os..
Šance na vzdělání o.p.s.
Soukromá vyšší odborná škola sociální, o.p.s.
ARPZPD v ČR, o.s. - Klub Klubíčko Beroun
Diecézní charita Brno - Oblastní charita Jihlava
O.s Green Doors
Občanská poradna Třebíč
Oblastní charita Pardubice
Organizace nevidomých
VIDA
občanské sdružení Romodrom
Tyflo Vysočina Jihlava o.p.s.
Rozkoš bez rizika
CENTRUM VOLNÉHO ČASU PRAHA 9
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Koalice nevládek Pardubicka, o. s.
Charita Ostrava
o.s. Člověk zpět k člověku
BONA, o.p.s.
Občanská poradna Nymburk
Náboženská obec CČSH v Říčanech
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CENTRUM J. J. PESTALOZZIHO, O.P.S.
Štěpánkova 108, 537 01 Chrudim
Tel.: +420 469 623 083 email: [email protected]
www.pestalozzi.cz
Contact person: PaedDr. Pavel Tvrdík
ABOUT US
For fifteen years we have been helping tormented and abused people (victims of
violence) - children and young people from orphanages and institutions who have
found themselves in a critical situation and haven't got any shelter. We work
preventively against problems as criminality, prostitution and addictions.
J. J. Pestalozzi Center, public benefit organization, is an NGO which provides
endangered and disadvantaged groups of inhabitants with psychosocial,
consulting and educational services predominantly in the Regions of Pardubice
and Vysočina. It endeavours to reintegrate these people into the society and to
improve quality of their life.
We closely cooperate with The Charta 77 Foundation; we have got financial
support from The O2 Foundation, The CEZ Foundation, Tereza Maxova
Foundation, and The Our Child Foundation. We also get financial support e.g.
from The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Region of Pardubice and the
City of Chrudim.
The mission of the Expert Social Consulting is to prepare young people to live
independently. Furthermore, it provides aid to those who have found themselves
in a difficult situation which they are not able to cope with by themselves, and to
help them to avoid social conflicts.
The service is designed for users:
− of any age who found themselves in a difficult situation, which they are not
able to cope with by themselves
− whose life habits and modus operandi result in a conflict with society
− who live hazardous way and/or are endangered by this way of life (e.g.
addictions, homelessness etc.)
− who after reaching legal age leave reformatories, orphanages or
dysfunctional families and they have neither any background nor support
− who live in socially excluded communities
− former clients of Halfway houses
− clients of Probation and Mediation Administration (perpetrators or persons
after a penalty)
A subsidiary aim is creating, developing and improving of working habits and
skills. There is a sequence of activities enabling the user of the service to acquire
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psychosocial skills resulting in completing defined objectives and integration of
the user. In addition to assistance, social skills training and social consulting, we
also develop working skills via ergotherapy. It comprises not only those skills
necessary for performing work duties, but also social skills at workplace, skills
directly related to work and skills indirectly related to work. After acquiring and
absorbing those skills the users have wider opportunities on the labor market, and
consequently unemployment in the region is reduced.
Easy Admission Center for Youth and Children is one of the services provided by
J.J. Pestalozzi Center, o.p.s. Chrudim. Based on the permission to perform
socially-legal protection of children, it provides ambulatory and terrain services in
the form education, consulting and psychosocial aid. The services are provided to
endangered and disadvantaged groups of people and persons in a difficult
situation in the Region of Pardubice. The main strategic aim is systematical
preparation of children whom institutional education was assigned to so that they
can cope with a difficult situation in advance - even before they leave the
institution. The users who are frequently endangered by socially-pathological
phenomena and premature abandoning school education are provided with
preventive services.
Target group of users:
They are youth and children at the age from 10 to 20 whom institutional education
was assigned to and who originally come from the Region of Pardubice and from
other regions as well. Children who lack family background or it is so pathological
that it is appropriate to reduce the influence of the family on the child and to
motivate the child to live independently on the original family after the institutional
education is finished are chosen for the prevention.
The Crisis Center in J.J.Pestalozzi Center, o.p.s. Chrudim, provides consulting,
educational and psychosocial services to users in the Region of Pardubice who
have found themselves in a critical situation which significantly endangers their
life or diminishes its quality, and a solution is urgently needed. The main strategic
aim is reintegration of the users of the services into the society and improvement
of quality of their life.
Who is this service suitable for? It is for persons of any age finding themselves in
a critical situation – children, youth, young people, adults, seniors. The services
are preferentially provided to users with permanent residence in the Region of
Pardubice, but users from other regions can use them as well.
Services provided in the Crisis Center:
ambulatory services:
• crisis aid call – phone number: 469 623 899
• e-mail consulting – [email protected]
• direct crisis intervention /elaboration of acute critical status/
• individual and collective psychotherapy
• further psychotherapeutic activities /relaxation exercises, clubs, and so on/
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• background for self-help groups
• complete special pedagogical diagnostics
• prevention and remedy for specific learning malfunctions
• mediation of contacts to further expert centers
terrain services:
• assistance and support within contact with offices according to needs of
the client (Municipal Office, probation officers, Employment Office)
• assistance within court sessions
• mediation of expert consultations (lawyer, psychiatrist...)
• visiting families
stay services:
• program of accommodation at a secret place – max. 6 months
• crisis stay – 3-5 days, so called crisis bed – a temporary asylum to bypass
a critical situation
further services:
• crisis bed - a temporary asylum to bypass a critical situation (3-5 days)
• public lectures – for kindergartens, elementary schools and further
organizations
• specialized library /available to the public/
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• a technically equipped lecture room is available /on 2 floor of the Center/
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ŽIVOT 90 - JIHLAVA
Žižkova 98, 586 01 Jihlava
www.zivot90-jihlava.cz
Contact person: Ing. Zuzana Pěchotová
ABOUT US
ŽIVOT 90 - Jihlava is a civic association founded in 1995 and its target is to
provide services to seniors and health-handicapped people and to enable them to
live in an environment which they are familiar to, i.e. to be at home as long as
possible.
Our main project is Emergency Care AREION. Via a simple device connected to
a landline or a mobile phone, the communication center of this emergency care
receives messages from clients' flats 24 hours a day. An important component is a
wireless button which the user keeps with him/her and in case of emergency – a
fall, an acute health setback, an assault – he/she can immediately contact our
center by one touch of the button. Our center is operated by qualified nurses who
solve the situation. Our center cooperates with prompt rescue service, police, fire
brigade, GPs and many further institutions and individuals. We obviously contact
the family and neighbours of the users as well. Thanks to our system, we are able
to resolve even such situations when the client cannot press the button because
of an acute health setback. An important factor of the emergency care is
prevention of criminality (detection of an illegal intrusion into a flat).
Another provided service is a personal assistance to children attending preschool
and school institutions and to seniors at their homes. The personal assistance is a
terrain service provided to persons of diminished self-sufficiency because of their
age, a chronic disease or a health handicap who need support of another person.
The service is provided non-stop in a social environment the users are familiar to,
and according to clients needs. We provide personal assistance services in the
Region of Jihlava. Furthermore, we organize leisure activities and lectures for
seniors.
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The project of the personal assistance has worked since September 1 2003. We
employ personal assistants (in cooperation with Employment Office of Jihlava and
City Hall of Jihlava) in Kindergarten with Special Classes and in Special
Subsidiary School for Multiply Handicapped Pupils.
We extended this activity and increased the number of personal assistants to
fifteen. Personal assistants (social services workers) must be qualified according
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to the legal norm No. 108/2006 Sb. on social services (valid from January 1
2007). The assistants are chosen in cooperation with Employment Office of
Jihlava. The personal assistants work in school institutions, in families namely in
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Jihlava and its vicinity (Dolní Smrčné, Kamenice).
The mission of the personal assistance provided by o.s. ŽIVOT 90 – Jihlava is to
enable the users to live at the same standard as their equals in age.
The system of the personal assistance is derived from individual needs of the
users; it respects and keeps their dignity and their fundamental human rights. It
actively supports their social integration.
Staff members who work as personal assistants are chosen from jobless people
registered at Employment Office. This happens via the public benefit works
project which the Employment Office participates in by co-financing personal
assistants' wages. The cooperation is very good and it enables jobless people to
establish themselves in the field of social work – on condition they retrain as
social workers.
Cooperating with Employment Office, we created approximately 50 positions and
enabled unemployed people to get a job. However, there has been set a
condition: completed re-qualification in the field of social services.
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HESTIA, o.s.
Na Poříčí 12, 110 00 Praha 1
www.hest.cz.cz
Contact person: Šárka Jakubcová
ABOUT US
The association HESTIA was founded in 1993 as an initiative of a group of
marriage counselors who wanted to support positive interpersonal relationships.
At first, this institution worked as a foundation, subsequently the form of civic
association was chosen. It is managed by general meeting.
The mission of civic association HESTIA is creation of positive and workable
interpersonal relationships in the family range and in the wider context of civil
society as well. HESTIA supports and realizes research, training and educational
programs, consulting and therapy, supervisions and internships for volunteers and
professionals as well. HESTIA issues topical publications, contacts initiatives and
institutions with similar aims in Czech Republic and abroad, and supports
promotion and publicity of the activities mentioned above. HESTIA is currently
realizing projects as follows:
a) HESTIA – National Volunteer Center realizes Program “pět P”(of Five Ps),
Compass and further volunteers' projects: Volunteers in Hospitals, Program for
Seniors and so on. It methodically manages Program of Volunteer-ship
Development in the range of the Czech Republic. National Volunteer Center
supports development and coordinates the activity of regional volunteer centers
and programs as well.
b) HESTIA – Methodical and Educational Center is focused on education and
supervision of professional workers in social and socially-health services and
further subsidiary professions.
HESTIA o.s. realizes this project in the framework of partnership with Metropolitan
University Prague for the second time. Unlike the first project realized in the SPD
3 framework, the current project is supported by OPPA (2009-2010) and focused
not only on searching for training workplaces, but more widely on complete
preparation health handicapped persons to enter the labor market.
The specific targets of the project are:
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to elaborate and realize individual career-plans for the participants of the
project
to provide general (a non-specific profession) education which can
enhance their personal skills
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to ensure such work training which enables them to acquire sufficient
working habits
to spread information in order that potential employers are more aware of
specific problems of health handicapped people trying to enter the labor
market
to enhance participants' foreknowledge of their future occupation via
consulting and meetings with selected employers
Implementation of the specific targets is going to be achieved by:
3. diagnostics, individual consulting and individual career-plans preparation
4. general (a non-specific profession) education courses in the extent of
220 hrs. per participant
5. preparation and realization of a workshop for potential employers
6. working skills training during 18 month
7. preparation and realization of a mini job fair whose purpose is meeting of
potential employers with participants of the project
The main target of the project is to support removing barriers which block entering
labor market, respectively to further the availability to employ fifty health
handicapped persons.
Program Pět P/Five Ps (pomoc/aid, přátelství/friendship, péče/care,
podpora/support and prevence/prevention) is a preventive program for socially
and/or health disadvantaged children at the age of 6-15 years and it's based on a
close and friendly relationship between a child and an adult volunteer. The
principle of whole the program is that an expertly created duo meets for one
afternoon a week and performs leisure activities which they agree on according to
their common interests. Regular contact of the child with the volunteer lasts at
least 10 months. Program Pět P is predominantly focused on solutions of social
and communication troubles of children. In the long run, the relationship of the
child and the volunteer creates suitable conditions for social skills growth and it
enhances self-confidence of the child and increases their motivation to make
natural relationships with peers, and consequently it supports their integration into
society.
Increasing of these competencies of the child obviously influences their position
on the labor market in the future and in life in general.
A new project Compass (Communication, Partnership, cooperation) is based on
the same principles as Program Pět P; there are, however, meetings of six
children with two volunteers.
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FORMIKA, o. s.
Filipova 2013/3, 148 00 Praha 4
Tel.: +420 271 910 016, 775 350 115 email: [email protected]
www.formika.org
Contact person: Mgr. Petra Vitáková, Bc. Barbora Jančová, Mgr. Klára
Fialová, Bc. Anna Novotná, Mgr. Veronika Samcová
ABOUT US
Civic association FORMIKA was founded in 2003. In the first year, it provided a
service „Job Club“ and worked as volunteer organization; its members worked
without any wage.
In 2004 the civic association received a grant and consequently it could hire two
job consultants. Complete services of job support began to be provided. In 2005
those services began to be provided for clients from Region Middle-Bohemia as
well. At the end of 2006 year the civic association moved to Filipova Street, which
the present address is. Civic association FORMIKA has been a registered social
service since 2007.
What is the mission of the service?
The mission of the service is to provide people disadvantaged on the labor market
with such support so that they can work in the same conditions as other people
and together with them.
What are the objectives of the service?
1. User of the service will get a proper and stable job on the open (not protected)
labor market, which means:
- that the job will be based on a standard labor-law relationship;
- that the job will last longer than 1 year and the wage is adequate;
- that the user will work together with people who are not handicapped;
- that the job will be in accordance with the user’s prerequisites and preferences.
2. The user of the service is supposed to keep the job for at least 1 year after
providing the service is finished.
3. The user of the service will enhance the skills needed for getting and keeping a
suitable job on the open labor market.
How does the service operate?
A potential client finding themselves in a difficult social situation is provided with
basic social consulting. After a telephonic prearrangement, consulting is provided
in a form of personal meetings in the rooms of civic association FORMIKA.
The potential client who is registered on a waiting list of candidates is provided
with group expert social consulting once per month. The attendance is obligatory
for the candidates.
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Before a contract on providing a social rehabilitation service is concluded, the
potential client who is registered on a waiting list of candidates is provided with
individual expert social consulting repeatedly as long as the nature of their
unfavorable social situation requires it.
After the contract on providing the service is concluded, the user of the service is
provided with individual expert social consulting in a form of personal meetings in
the rooms of the civic association, namely once per week, 1 hour minimum.
Moreover, he/she is provided with group consulting once per month, 2 hours
minimum (a so called job club).
Conducted by a job consultant, training of the skills needed for getting and
keeping a suitable job also takes place, according to an individual plan of the
course of the service which is designed for each user of the service. Training of
the skills takes place in the job club as well.
Moreover, our workers assist user of the service within contact with potential
employers, with public services (e. g. employment offices) and with other
institutions, if need be, they communicate on his/her behalf (e. g. they address
potential employers or communicate with specialists of various fields related to
the needs of the user).
After a suitable job is got, the user of the service is provided with so called job
assistance, thus support directly in the workplace, and, if need be, aid within
transporting to the workplace so that the user can keep the job.The user of the
service goes on training the skill needed for keeping the job and is provided with
expert social consulting as well. The service will be terminated after a contract on
finishing the service is concluded.
We contribute to unemployment reduction by means of integrating people who
are disadvantaged on the labor market into standard workplaces.
The most important achieved projects
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“Increasing the capacity of job support services in civic association FORMIKA” 1
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July 2005 - 30 June 2007. The objectives: Increasing the capacity of job support
services in Prague; enhancing quality of job support services in civic association
FORMIKA; creating a plan of further quality development for the period until the
end of 2010.
Activities: recruiting and training a new job consultant; providing job support
services in the region of Prague, the state capital; training workers of the social
department of Town Hall Prague 11 for indicating job support services; creating a
methodology of services; an audit of quality of the service; creating a strategy of
development.
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Program: SPD 3 – Global Grant - 1 round of call
“Job Support in Region Middle-Bohemia”
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1 September 2005 - 31 July 2006
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The objectives: by means of job support services, enabling health handicapped
people living in Region Middle-Bohemia to get a suitable job on the open labor
market; by means of individual and group training, enhancing their skills for
getting and keeping a suitable job; cooperating with Employment Office Prague
Eastern County, defining a strategy of modus co-operandi with regional
employment offices for getting jobs for unemployed health handicapped people
and verification of efficiency of the strategy.
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Program: Phare 2003 Human Resources Development
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1 August 2007 - 30 June 2008
The Objectives: enhancing a newly created position “financial affairs worker”;
creating an internal code on financial management procedures in civic association
FORMIKA; enhancing the authority of managers as for financial management in
civic association FORMIKA.
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Program: SPD 3 – Global Grant - 3 round of call
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ASOCIACE RODIČŮ A PŘÁTEL ZDRAVOTNĚ POSTIŽENÝCH
DĚTÍ V ČR, O. S.
Karlínské nám. 12, Praha 8, 186 03
www.arpzpd.cz
Contact person: Marie Havlíčková
ABOUT US
The Association of Parents and Friends of Handicapped Children in the Czech
Republic was founded in 1991 and works nationwide. By means of 60 Regional
Clubs, it supports the interests of children and youth with health handicap and
their families in all spheres of life.
Since 2002, as a result of legislative amendment allowing a care assistant to
make extra earnings, we have organized accredited retraining courses for the
positions “Personal assistant of health handicapped children and youth” a “Social
consultant for families with a health handicapped child”.
Since 2006 we have attempted to reduce unemployment of the target group
predominantly by means of retraining courses which we have succeeded to
finance through ESF. Presently we have got sufficient funds for the period until
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31 July 2010 and we have submitted further applications.
Achieved projects in the field of education and employing target group members:
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Retraining and creating jobs for the position “Assistant of health
handicapped persons”; 2006; 2 722 678 CZK; retraining 50 persons and
creating 4 jobs.
Educational courses for members of the Association for the position
“Consultant for families with a health handicapped child” and “Assistant
of health handicapped children and youth”; 2006; 1 782 710 CZK;
retraining 50 persons.
Retraining persons for the position “Assistant of health handicapped
children and youth”; 2007; 953 270 CZK; retraining 25 persons.
“Assistant of health handicapped children”; 2009 - still in operation; 1 876
200 CZK; 50 persons.
Regular subsidiary workshops which ensure enhancing the skills of target
group members; 2008 – still in operation; 736 074 CZK.
The objectives of our projects:
8. unemployment reduction and social integration of health and socially
disadvantaged people into society,
9. to stop the increasing number of the long-term registered unemployed; to
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focus on the unemployed endangered by long-term unemployment,
10. to enhance professional skills and abilities as prevention of loosing jobs,
implementation of new active employment policy instruments; to increase
targeting and effectiveness of already existing instruments and to apply
them also to the registered unemployed, employees endangered by
unemployment and persons re-entering the labor market.
11. to extend preventive counseling and information services and, as
prevention of unemployment, to enhance incentive and activation
measures applied to entities on the labor market
Target groups:
- persons who take care of a dependent family member on a long-term basis
- health handicapped persons
- the long-term unemployed
- the registered unemployed and employees endangered by unemployment and
persons re-entering the labor market
As mentioned above, we contribute to unemployment reduction by means of
social integration of socially excluded group – families with a health handicapped
child, education in a sense of retraining and increasing of qualification of persons
excluded from the labor market in the long-term, special counseling aimed for
specific attributes of families with a health handicapped child, and incentive and
activation measures.
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DOMOV SV. KARLA BOROMEJSKÉHO
K Šancím 50/6, 163 00 Praha 17 - Řepy
www.domovrepy.cz
Contact person: S. M. Konsoláta Mgr. Miroslava Frýdecká
ABOUT US
The St. Charles Borromeo Home is a church charitable institution; its founder is
Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo. The Home used to
work as a prison for female convicts in the
past and as Research Institute of
Agricultural Technology in the period of
socialism. After fall of communism, the
totally ruined building of the Home was
returned to Borromean Sisters. After
reconstruction, the Home was prepared to
serve the needy. Nowadays, the Home has
become a center of care of seniors whom it
offers complex all-day nursing in wards and
ambulatory care in the day-care center.
The Home was opened and started its
operation in 1996 and its mission is to take
care of elderly people whose long-term
unfavourable health status results in their
predominant or total loss of self-sufficiency
and thus dependence on
permanent
support of another person. The Home is
rebuilt and has modern equipment, hence
well equipped for providing this care as for space and staff, and technically.
Thanks to comprehensive and individual approach to each client, we achieve very
good results.
The Home also creates jobs for female
convicts who serve their term in the
Section for Serving Term Řepy which is
situated directly in the area of the Home.
We offer the convicts occupations in the
nurses' stations, in the kitchen, in the
laundry room, and in providing the
necessary cleaning of the Home. We
organize certificate St. Zdislava Training
Courses for chosen women in the Home
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so that they may work as qualified medical orderlies in the wards.
The purpose of this project is to create training jobs for female convicts serving
their term. As a result of imprisonment, these women are excluded from reality of
standard life. Thus we consider it desirable to include them in labor process which
is, under different circumstances, an integral part of everyday life. The Section for
Serving Term Řepy is a part of Prison Ruzyně and is a separate part of the area
of the Home. Convicted women who are allowed to serve their term here are
selected from prisons of whole the Czech Republic according to references and
psychological tests. In a sense, they are an ”elite”. Subsequently these women
witness old age, the ageing process, and even dying in the Home. They have an
opportunity to think about the meaning of life and to reconsider their previous life
attitude.
The capacity of the Section for Serving Term is 56 women; 35 of them, as a
maximum, can be employed in the operation of the Home. They can take part in
training work in ancillary and serving operations of the Home on a daily basis. The
main objective of employing convicted women is to create solid working habits, to
enable them to acquire a new qualification (skills and abilities) to help them to
keep contact with people and standard reality. Achieving these objectives results
in successful reintegration of convicted women into society who, after serving
their term, come back home and to the labor process.
In the scope of the training job project, we provide jobs to 83 convicted women
per year. Based on selection interviews and, if need be, psychological tests
results, women are chosen by an expert committee (psychologist, pedagogical
worker, social worker, members of security forces, educator and personnel
officer). Then they are classified into two groups: first, ancillary works, second,
qualified medical orderlies. After classification, they are assigned to particular
operations of the Home (nurses' stations, kitchen, laundry room, cleaning) where
they work according to the job description. We consider the main output of the
project to be successful employing of convicted women and their preparation for
future jobs after serving their term. The Home also provides the convicts with
medical orderly St. Zdislava Training Course which is certified by the Ministry of
Health and the certificate does not display the course was passed during serving
term. After serving their term, this certificate enables the women to find a suitable
job according to their qualification in the field of health or social services which is
mostly the only opportunity to get such a job in case of women sentenced for
property crime.
The benefit of the project:
We can state that enabling convicted women to be employed while serving their
term is quite unique and without parallel anywhere in the world. It is estimated
that the number of unemployed prisoners in the Czech Republic is approximately
40%. The cardinal reason is the fact that the conditions in the local prisons
practically do not enable imprisoned persons to work. There is no economic
activity in most prisons, hence no opportunity to employ prisoners, which
implicates reintegration persons serving their term into society is difficult.
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The major importance of the project is that this issue concerns all our society
(educational factors, preventive factors etc.). Such a project where the sphere of
convicts meets the sphere of free people has not been realized in any other
institution so far, then it is unique in this respect. By means of realization of our
project we improve the situation of persons leaving prison who are going to enter
the labor market with a certain handicap. Thus, through the training job project
and retraining courses, we help to reduce unemployment of this group, and we
increase their hope to get a job.
The Home provides dependent seniors with social and health services. In the
scope of facilitation services, it operates 34 beds for temporary (cca 3 months')
stays, and, in the rooms of the day-care center, it offers 25 permanent places for
such seniors whom their family can take care of in its spare time, but the family
needs help while its members are at work. Thus, the day-care center is open and
provides its services on weekdays. Except social services, the Home also
provides medical care services within rehabilitation stays, namely through
operating 60 hospital beds for long-term patients. The set of these services
includes rehabilitation physical exercises, ergotherapy, spiritual services, cultural
events so that clients and patients have complete care in respect to their
individual needs.
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o. s. Povídej
Česká 235, 284 01 Kutná Hora
www.linkaduvery.kh.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Eva Bicanová
ABOUT US
Civic association Povídej/Talk was founded in 1998; its purpose is to provide help
for people who are in acute psychic and social crisis which they are not able to
resolve by themselves. The first project was “the Crisis Hotline in Kutná
Hora/Linka důvěry v Kutné Hoře” which was supported predominantly by SWIF
fund using PHARE resources. This project has worked in wider form up to the
present day. In 2002 it was extended to include internet based consulting and
since 2007, the telephonic crisis aid service Crisis Hotline has been a registered
social service according to the law 108/2006 Sb. In 1999, the telephonic services
were extended to include the crisis aid face to face – it means crisis intervention,
emergency and short-term psychotherapy and special social consulting. This
crisis aid service, which is provided in the Center for People in Need, has also
been a registered social service since 2007. Thus, since 2007, civic association
Povídej has been a founder of the Crisis Intervention Center in Kutná Hora which
provides two registered social services – the telephonic crisis aid on the Crisis
Hotline and the crisis aid in the Center for People in Need.
The objectives of civic association Povídej/Talk, according to the articles, are:
A. To help children, young people and adults in situation of acute psychic and
social distress, especially if they ask for prompt aid by phone. The task of the
crisis hotline is to diminish the intensity of the crisis state and to stop its
worsening, to assist the calling person in such a difficult life situation and to
support an efficient solution of the problem.
B. The activity in the scope of the first psychological and psychotherapeutic aid
face to face for people in crisis, crisis aid and prevention in the field of
interpersonal relationships.
C. Providing information service and mediation of a further contact in the psychosocial network.
D. Organizing further education for both the expert and lay public.
From the beginning of operating the Crisis Hotline, people who are endangered
by unemployment or who just have become jobless, who are long-term jobless
and are actively trying to find a job and are not successful because of their acute
psychic distress – all of them are the users of the hotline as well. Many of these
people, besides losing their job, are experiencing a personal crisis, possibly a
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marital or a family one. The objective of the expert telephonic crisis aid, which is
easily accessible, is to help the user to cope with the crisis state, which is caused
by a sudden loss of job or by joblessness, and to prevent the crisis state from
developing into pathological behavior or from becoming chronic which could result
negatively for the user and society. We support the user to so that they can
develop their key competencies; we create a plan consisting of little steps with
them which results in
return to fully-fledged life. Every year, there are
approximately 10% users facing this problem, i.e. 100 contacts.
Like in the case of the telephonic crisis aid, the objective of the crisis aid face to
face is to cope with the crisis state. Moreover, in the scope of the short-term care
(approximately 6 sessions), it enables the user, due to coped and worked out
crisis, to restore the pre-crisis - or even evolutionarily higher - level of coping with
a particular issue. The users of the consulting services are also people facing the
unemployment issue whom we provide with crisis aid, urgent psychotherapy and
expert social consulting. We collaborate with Employment Office Kutná Hora –
presenting services, cooperation in cases. We deal with approximately 20 cases
of this issue per year.
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SVAZ NESLYŠÍCÍCH A NEDOSLÝCHAVÝCH V ČR, KRAJSKÁ
ORGANIZACE VYSOČINA
Úprkova 6, 586 01 Jihlava
www.snncr-vysocina.cz
Contact person: Čenkovic Oldřich, Kocmanová Jiřina
ABOUT US
The very beginning of the
movement of hard of
hearing people (nowadays
the Union of the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing in the
Czech
Republic)
took
place in associations of
the deaf. The first one of
them, Association of the
Deaf and Dumb in Prague,
was founded in 1868. At
the end of the 1960s, the
Union of the Hearing
Impaired was founded as
a member organization of
the Association of the
Disabled by officials' agreement. Further development of the organization was
discontinued by the so called normalization process in the 1970s when it was
incorporated into the Association of the Disabled. In 1990 the Association of the
Disabled terminated its activities. In the same year, the law number 83/1990 Sb.
on civic associating passed which was an impulse for rising of quite a number of
independent civic associations with specific interests and defined programs and
also for restoration of the Union of the Hearing Impaired in the Czech Republic. At
the congress in1994, its delegates decided to change the original title to the
Union of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the Czech Republic which is valid up to
present day. Hearing impaired people represent most of the members of the
Union.
Social work of UDHH has an old tradition. It arose by transformation of the former
care of the members. Social services are provided to all interested persons and
users without any discriminating factors like the range and the type of hearing
impairment, age, sex, membership in organizations etc. The users are
predominantly hard hearing persons using hearing aids, deaf persons who use lip
reading to understand, users of cochlear implants, prelingual deaf persons using
sign language as a primary means of communication and persons with tinitus and
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combined impairment as well.
The Union of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the Czech Republic is a nongovernmental non-profit civic association with legal personality and nationwide
activity which was divided according to the new establishment of the state. The
Union of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the Czech Republic Regional
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Organization Vysočina was founded at a conference on September 15 2001 and
its main mission is to defend the rights and interests of hard hearing people (see
above). The objective of the organization is, most of all, to optimally integrate
people with serious hearing impairment into society and to enable them, by
means of expert social consulting, high technology and alternative communication
forms, to use standard educational systems and health care, to acquire suitable
jobs, and to perform leisure activities. A special accent is put on employing
hearing impaired people, especially those who are completely deaf.
The most important projects are services provided according to the law
No.108/2006 Sb. on social services.
a) Expert social consulting
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needs of
hearing
impaired users
Consulting
for
workers
in the
educational system
Consulting
for
employers
Consulting for family
members, friends of
hearing
impaired
persons, the general
public or clerks.
Kinds of provided services:
12. Consulting in the field of retirement insurance – the disability pension
issue
13. Consulting for acquiring a contribution to a compensatory/hearing aid
14. Consulting in the field of employing persons with hearing impairment and
combined disability
15. Consulting in the field of the educational system for children with hearing
impairment and combined disability
16. Based on the law on sign language, consulting in the field of removing
information barriers
17. Consulting in the field of various contributions for health handicapped
persons
Highly expert consulting is provided by trained workers in cooperation with health
experts, employment offices, regional and municipal offices, insurance companies
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and firms providing compensatory/hearing aids.
b) Interpreting services
They are provided to persons with a communication defect caused by hearing
impairment which prevents them from standard communication unless they have
assistance of another person.
We provide - mediation of contact with social environment, the assistance within
claiming rights, legitimate interests and within managing private affairs,
interpreting (sign language, Czech sign language or lip-reading), articulation
interpreting
Provided services: the interpreting services diminish the communication barrier
and the information deficit, make easier to contact other people and facilitate fullyfledged integration into common society.
1) Ambulatory service: direct work with a client according to the nature of
their Leeds, Interpreting within mass events (lectures, educational
activities, meetings etc.)
2) Terrain service: Work with a client at a prearranged place, time and term,
Service on-line: via e-mail, chat, SMS, phone, fax
c) Socially activating services for persons with hearing impairment
- Psycho-rehabilitation courses (mental training, lip-reading and speech
therapy)
- Educational programs (sign-language course, PC courses, …)
- Lectures and educational activities (predominantly in the field of health,
socially- legal affairs, family and leisure activities)
- Cultural activities – always with the presence of a sign-language
interpreter and an articulation interpreter (pantomime performed by deaf
people)
- Sports events (darts, cards)
- Educational trips
Educational sojourn courses – lip-reading, speech therapy,
compensatory/hearing aids, assertiveness, stress management etc.
d) Services related to compensatory/hearing aids
- Consulting related to compensatory/hearing aids
- An opportunity to try aids; offers of various firms
- Mediation of acquiring a compensatory/hearing aid in cooperation with
specialized firms, possibly, installation of the aid in a client's flat included.
- Mediation of a repair to a hearing aid or a compensatory/hearing aid
- Providing necessary accessories to hearing aids
The above mentioned services ensure support and assistance to persons with
hearing impairment who find themselves in an unfavorable life situation; we
endeavor to further their independence (self-reliance and self-sufficiency) and to
integrate them into society and labor process.
Another project, which we realized and which we have proceeded with in a
somewhat changed form, is a part of Global grant – the operation program
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“Human Resources Development”. Its title is “The Center for Support of Persons
with Hearing Impairment”. The prime objective of this project was, by providing
expert specialized services which enhanced knowledge and motivation of persons
with hearing impairment and supported them to cope with the information and
communication barrier, to increase the possibility that these persons could get a
job on the open labor market.
Main activities and methods are:
a) Consulting for persons with hearing impairment entering the labor market
b) Consulting for persons with hearing impairment who have been laid off or have
looked for a new job in collaboration with employment offices.
− Information on services of employment offices, according to the law on
employment
− Retraining opportunities
− Compensatory/hearing aids for persons with hearing impairment at the
workplace
c) Consulting for potential employers of persons with hearing impairment
- Information according to the law on employment
d) Motivation workshops “How to succeed better on the labor market”
e) An opportunity to use a computer and e-mail so that the user of the service can
write a curriculum vitae or a job application, or look for job advertisements.
Furthermore, this project was aimed to increasing and enhancing of professional
knowledge of workers in our organization. Nowadays, this knowledge results in
higher quality work of our employees within consulting activity focused on
unemployed clients with hearing impairment and on potential employers.
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ZÁKLADNÍ ŠKOLA A PRAKTICKÁ ŠKOLA SVÍTÁNÍ, O.P.S.
Komenského 432, 530 03 Pardubice
www.svitani.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Miluše Horská
ABOUT US
Primary
School
and
Practical
School
SVÍTÁNÍ/Dawn,
P.B.O.
provides
educational,
social and other services
to children, young people
and adults with a mental
and combined disability to
develop their personality
and to integrate them into
standard life according to
their individual needs and
capabilities.
The education in SVÍTÁNÍ
consists of physiotherapy, ergotherapy, music therapy, hippotherapy,
canistherapy, speech therapy etc. The school provides these social services:
personal assistance and Social therapeutic workshops - the Transit Program
SVÍTÁNÍ. School SVÍTÁNÍ arose from the need of parents having health
handicapped children.
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It opened 1 September 1992. In the first year, the school was attended by 26
pupils with a combined handicap. In the school year 2008/2009, it provided its
services to 149 pupils and clients.
By means of practical training of
social and working skills, the
Transit
Program
SVÍTÁNÍ
supports clients with mental and
combined disabilities so that they
are independent in standard life.
The objective of the provided
service is that the clients acquire
and
develop capabilities and
skills which enable them to
integrate into society as for
applying social skills (personal
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hygiene, communication, development of client's personality, client's integration
into society) and working skills (cooking practice, gardening, cleaning, manual
skills).
The activity contributes to unemployment reduction by means of social integration
of socially excluded people (education, practical training of skills applicable on the
labor market).
The School SVÍTÁNÍ provides education in the primary school, in the primary
special school, in the primary practical school and in the practical two-year
school. The education consists of physiotherapy, ergotherapy, music therapy,
hippotherapy, canistherapy, speech therapy, psycho-relaxation and other services
supporting development of clients' personalities according to their individual
needs and capabilities. Pupils in a class are cared for by a teacher, the teacher's
assistant and a personal assistant.
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MÁME OTEVŘENO?, O.S.
Hradešínská 2144/47, 101 00 Praha 10
www.mameotevreno.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Filip Budák
ABOUT US
1998 - The organization Máme otevřeno?/Are We Open?, civic association, was
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founded 6 June.
− in September: The first program Jiné odpoledne/A Different Afternoon
started its activity
1999 - Second program Akce pontony/ “The Pontoons” was realized
2000 – Rooms for Coffee House Vesmírna/The Universe were acquired
18. The first integration festival Podzimní kafemletí/ “The Fall Coffee Grind”
2002 – A consulting website Dobromysl.cz was started
• The job training program was started in Coffee House Vesmírna
• Another service – Transitional Program - aimed to support of employing
mentally disabled people started.
• Volunteer center dealt with systematic development of volunteerism.
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The first information and educational appointment book was issued.
2003 - COSMOS (club of friends of civic association Máme otevřeno?) started its
activity.
2004 – The first number of MYM.O.! magazine was issued.
• joining the DMS project
2005 - The first Charitable Auction – Beneficial Games
2007 – The offices were moved from Prague 2 to Prague 10.
− Regular Job Clubs were organized.
− The website Dobromysl.cz was upgraded, and consequently a new
comprehensive consulting program Information and Consulting Center
arose.
− Program Assistance was initiated.
2008 - Media campaign An employee with mental disability? Try it! was realized.
3) Preparation for the merger of two volunteer programs (Volunteer center –
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The Pontoons) into one planed for 1 January 2009 was realized.
Since 2002, the project Coffee House Vesmírna has supported integration of
mentally handicapped people into society by means of job training. In the current
two-year Job Training Program, mentally handicapped people have an
opportunity to test, with an assistant's support, what true work is, to experience
real work for a wage, to acquire quite a number of social skills. After the program
is finished, our clients can use the services of the following Transitional program,
see below.
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Mutual integration of the two worlds – mentally handicapped people and not
handicapped people – take place in a nice no smoking area in the center of
Prague. Mentally handicapped people develop their working and social skills and
so they enhance their chance to find and keep a job on the open labor market in
future.
To be able to work and to have a job means to establish a new dimension of
quality of one's own life. The Coffee House Vesmírna is a temporary stop
between the certainty of home and the challenge of open society.
The project Job Training Program in the Coffee House Vesmírna reduces
unemployment of mentally handicapped people by means of their social
integration and direct support, i.e. preparation for a job by training of work. Thus, it
prepares them for their future job especially on the open labor market.
The Transitional Program supports integration of adults with a mental and
combined handicap into standard working environment.
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The Transitional Program started on January 1 2003. Originally, it was a service
designed only for persons who had completed the Job Training Program in the
Coffee House Vesmírna. Thanks to growing interest in the program displayed by
other persons with a mental handicap coming from outside, in 2006, the service
became available for these candidates.
For people with a mental or combined handicap, it is usually difficult to orient
themselves in available jobs offers, especially in a large city. It is often arduous for
them to arrange a job interview and to succeed in it, to write and send a
curriculum vitae, to understand a labor-law relationship etc. Although most of
them would be able to work and would want to, not always can they cope with the
demands of entering a standard job. Thus, they do not get the opportunity to
prove they can perform, after suitable training, quality work independently. The
Transitional program reacts to this situation and helps its clients to handle the
transition to employment successfully and teaches them to be independent.
Cooperation with a client lasts 1.5 year maximum; it is based on individual
planning. It encompasses the process of finding out their ideas of future and
abilities, a process of writing a CV, aid within contacting employers, managing job
interviews and formalities within entering a new job and subsequent support of
keeping an acquired job. If necessary, the Transitional Program provides up to
three-month job assistance. Therefore, it makes recruiting a mentally
handicapped person and their initiating easier for an employer. The program also
consists of regular monthly Job Clubs sessions where clients and candidates
adopt working environment knowledge.
Employers are actively addressed with a collaboration offer; they are provided
with clarification of relevant legislation, information on the program and specific
attributes of mental disability. The program strains to develop employers' social
responsibility.
A DIFFERENT
AFTERNOON
(SOCIALLY ACTIVATING
SERVICE
FOR
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SENIORS AND PERSONS WITH HEALTH HANDICAP §66)
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A Different Afternoon is the oldest program of the civic association; it had the 10
anniversary of its activity this year. The program helps to integrate children at the
age of 5 – 18, having special needs and with a mental or combined handicap or
autism, into standard interest circles with support of trained assistants.
In essence, the service offers a regular assistance in the circle and accompanying
on the way there and beck home again. The assistant helps a child to integrate
into children's collective and within the very work and play in the circle.
An integrated child can quickly adapt to unknown environment, can better
communicate with other people and becomes independent. Therefore, their
chance for successful and fully fledged adult life grows. The child becomes a
member of the collective and, according to their capabilities, communicates with
other children and fully shares the interest activity. On condition an activity in the
circle is too difficult for the child, the assistant modifies it according to the child’s
capabilities and limitations.
For members of the circle, being in company of a handicapped child is an
opportunity to encounter heterogeneity of handicapped people's world; it helps
them to become tolerant and teaches them new ways of communication. The
integration is not only a term here, but an experience to be together without
distinction.
After spending a year in the program, a child makes progress due to an
assistant's support according to the Individual Plan which respects the child's
needs and the level of disability. The greatest benefit is an improvement on
communication with other people and building up a closer relationship to the
assistant who can better motivate the child to be independent, to be oriented as
for time and space, to develop physical and mental skills within “work” in the
circle.
Children attend standard interest circles: pottery, dancing, swimming, physical
exercise, painting, photographic or a breeder circle. Within integration, we
cooperate with circle managers of Children and Youth Houses, Sokol (Falcon)
and with swimming schools in the area of Prague, the capital.
THE VOLUNTEER CENTER - “THE PONTOONS”
(SOCIALLY ACTIVATING SERVICE FOR SENIORS AND PERSONS WITH
HEALTH HANDICAP §66)
The mission of the program “The Pontoons” is to implement the objectives of
citizen advocacy for persons, at the age over16 years, with mental handicap and
autism – i. e. support for handicapped persons so that they are able to defend
their right sand interests and to integrate themselves into standard life.
There is a great demand for the service made by users not only due to the
uniqueness of the program but mainly for the reason that the service flexibly and
directly reacts to their requests and resolves their problems in all possible fields.
The program directly reacts to the current and continually growing need of
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disabled young people to speak for themselves, decide for themselves and to
defend their rights and interests in society and in their personal life. In addition to
fulfilling of the users' objectives, the program exerts positive influence on a
volunteer - “advocate” and gives a large amount of information to the general
public where the user and the volunteer frequently appear.
The service is provided all the year round, in time periods according to the user
and the volunteer's possibilities, 3 hours weekly minimum.
In meetings, the client and the volunteer spend their leisure time together – they
go for a walk, visit cultural events, go in for sports. Having support of these
activities, the volunteer purposefully works with his/her companion – mentally
handicapped partner and determines topics which help the client to aware and
use their rights and to be able to make their own personal decisions and to take
responsibility for them. They work together to fulfill the objectives of the Individual
Plan – to learn how to, for instance, independently travel, orient themselves in
travel schedules, look for information on the Internet, orient themselves in time,
go shopping etc.
The user is encouraged to express his/her wishes and emotions. Supported by
the volunteer, the user practices coping with day-to-day situations and becomes
more involved in the decision which will influence his/her life and therefore he/she
enhances his/her independence.
The Volunteer Center is a program which has worked since 2002 as a contact
place for persons interested in volunteering in the field of services for disable
people. Volunteers can take part in programs which are organized in the scope of
association Máme otevřeno?, o.s. or in some of 20 cooperating organizations. In
the last year, the Volunteer Center has been focused mainly on development of
volunteering in firms and successfully has cooperated with several organizations
(for instance Fórum dárců – Donors' Forum).
In the range of Máme otevřeno?, volunteers can take part in single beneficial and
educational events (The Fall Coffee Grind, Auction, thanks-giving party for
donors, Christmas party for clients, Christmas bazaar in Jiří z Poděbrad Square
and at Kampa etc.); they can help in administration within translations, website
adjustment, promotion or can participate in direct work with clients.
THE ASSISTANCE (RESPITE CARE §44)
Assistance is a modern type of a social service which directly reacts to the current
and individual needs of families by means of respite care. Undoubtedly, the need
for the service and the quality of the program are testified by the soaring demand
for this program which is excessively higher than its capacity.
The program provides an opportunity to support clients developing their potential
and to motivate them towards a greater degree of independence in their natural
home environment. Their family members may have a rest from difficult all-day
care of a handicapped person. Providing assistance, we support family care
instead of placing a client with mental handicap or autism in an institution.
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Most clients involved in the program are persons with autism or belong to the
spectrum of autistic disorder with higher degree of disability.
A family is a unique and indispensable institution; it provides children with a sense
of certainty and safety and enables them to acquire desirable skills, views and
values; it is able to further their development maximally. The greatest benefit of
the service is support of families and enabling clients to remain in their family
background that is so important for support of adaptation skills which are very
limited in this target group. Thanks to the program, handicapped clients can, with
assistant's help, use standard support resources and are enabled to communicate
with the wider community. The service also strongly supports integration of people
with higher degree of disability because the very fact that people with disability
are present in standard environment (means of transport, stores, playgrounds,
restaurants etc.) is the primary condition of integration.
The supporting and partnership attitude to clients enables the Assistance to focus
on individual ones and on their current needs and wishes and to support their
independence and quality of life. The program provides clients with meaningful
using of time which they spend with their assistant. Handicapped people develop
their potential together with the assistants; they get more independent and then
new opportunities of life in the community become available for them.
THE INFORMATION
CONSULTING § 37)
AND
CONSULTING
CENTER
(EXPERT
SOCIAL
Not only does the Information and Consulting Center deal with the issue of mental
handicap and autism but it also provides further consulting in the social sphere. It
provides information and consulting directly to mental handicapped people and to
their families as well as to the general public, students and media. It works by
means of personal consulting, phone, e-mail, Internet consulting and the
information website Dobromysl.cz. The service is provided gratis on workdays
from 9:00 to 17:00.
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FOKUS MLADÁ BOLESLAV, SDRUŽENÍ PRO PÉČI O DUŠEVNĚ
NEMOCNÉ
Ptácká 138, 293 01 Mladá Boleslav
www.fokus-mb.cz
Contact person: MUDr. Jan Stuchlík
ABOUT US
The civic association Fokus Mladá Boleslav is a non-profit non-governmental
organization, which provides long-term seriously mentally ill people with social
services in the regions of Mladá Boleslav and Nymburk. It has worked since 1992.
The provided services constitute a whole which is usually called a comprehensive
psychiatric rehabilitation. The objective of these services is enhancing clients'
quality of life, enhancing their independence and reduction of the psychiatric
hospitalization necessity. All the services are provided in accord with free client's
will. During more than 10 year, a set of rehabilitation programs, which are based
on individual needs of clients, was created.
The Agency for Supported Employment Fokus Mladá Boleslav was founded by
the civic association Fokus Mladá Boleslav in 2005 in the range of a project
supported by the program Phare 2003 HRD. The preparation took place in the
scope of the project EQUAL which was realized by the association Rytmus.
In 2008, the title was changed to The Team of Social Rehabilitation – Supported
Employment.
The supported employing is based on individual needs of job candidates. It is
focused on development of candidates' working skills and career. The objective is
to enable handicapped people to acquire and keep such a job on the open labor
market which complies with their interests, capabilities, talents and personal
possibilities.
Furthermore, the objective is to enhance the level of clients' independence (to
mediate creating or development of their skills needed for finding, getting and
keeping a job, to enhance their working habits and to extend their interest in
professional development).
The association runs 4 social therapeutic workshops with capacity of cca 60
places. The workshops serve both for working rehabilitation and for the long-term
protected work. Here, the clients can restore and improve their working skills,
ability of communication with other people and enhance their self-confidence.
Some of the clients come to the workshops with a target to get prepared for a
standard job; others want to find a way from their loneliness through a tolerant
community.
To those of the clients who would be overly stressed by the protected work in the
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workshop for the present centers of social rehabilitation offer a daily program
including working rehabilitation.
The terrain team of Fokus provides clients with case management (coordination
of services provided not only by the association Fokus but also by other providers
in the region; a client uses these services according to a rehabilitation plan
elaborated and regularly revised together with the client). Moreover, it ensures
the attendance service and, if necessary, actively searches for those clients who
have lost their contact with some of the services.
The social service provided by the association does not consist of mere social
and legal consulting in the field social security benefits, apartment assignment
applications etc. Also, it often includes assistance to the client within negotiations
with institutions or their representation and mediation or provides practical
assistance for instance within moving, apartment painting etc. It is also provided
to clients who are not involved in other programs.
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KOUS VYSOČINA
Žižkova 98,586 01 Jihlava
www.kous.cz
Contact person: Soňa Baueršímová
ABOUT US
The coordination union of NGOs in the Region of Vysočina, the civic association
(hereinafter “KOUS Vysočina, o.s.” or “KOUS”), follows up with long-term
cooperation of non-profit non-governmental organizations (hereinafter “NGOs”)
which began in 1995. At first, there was an informal group without legal
personality which was formed at the third regional NGOs conference in 2002.
However, an executive board of these groups has worked since that year and its
meetings have taken place almost every month. In 2008, founding of a civic
association was approved at sixth regional NGOs conference of the Region of
Vysočina. In 2008, the association had 33 NGOs members and entered into
relations with a large number of partners especially in the field of civil service.
KOUS represents all NGOs at the regional level within negotiation with the
officials of the region, within meetings dealing with EU funds allocation for
financing of projects in NUTS II Jihovýchod and within sessions of the
Government Council for Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations which is a
permanent consultative, initiative and coordination body of the Government of the
Czech Republic for addressing non-governmental non-profit sector issues.
KOUS performs several continual activities by means of which it takes part in
development of all NGOs in the Region of Vysočina (thus including also
organizations participating in social integration and employment in the Region of
Vysočina):
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regular providing information on events in the region, the CR and the EU
which have an influence on NGOs activities
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consulting on legal, accounting and tax issues
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assistance with elaboration of projects including information on resources of
support
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education in the field of project management, usage of PC, management etc
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processing of a strategy paper on behalf of non-profit non-governmental
sector at the regional level, its update and realization
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administration of the website for NGOs in the Region of Vysočina
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consultation hours for NGOs in the Region of Vysočina
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organizing of the Regional NGOs Conference (biennial)
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media campaign to highlight the work of non-profit organizations
Currently, KOUS has 60 members (representatives of NGOs from the Region of
Vysočina), 21 of them working in the socially-medical field, 17 in the field of care
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for seniors and health handicapped people and 9 in the field of consulting and
education).
PARTICULAR REALIZED ACTIVITIES
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19. Regional Diabetology Day (November 13 2009; the second year of this
successful event).
20. Since the 2008, the organizations in the field of social services have been
involved in meetings to create a system of financing of social services in the
Region of Vysočina.
21. In the January session of the Government Council for NNOs and its
Committee for Legislation and Funding, a member of KOUS presented a
contribution requiring re-negotiation of the possibility of tax assignations –
see:
http://www.vlada.cz/cz/ppov/rnno/legislativa-a-financovani/2008/8-ledna-2009-53344/
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22. On June 26 and 27 2009, KOUS organized two all-day workshops aimed
at training in the field of project management designed for representatives of
NGOs from the Region of Vysočina.
23. In May 2009, a two-day workshop focused on PC usage education for
beginners took place.
24. KOUS joined the preparation activities for establishing the Community
Foundation Vysočina.
25. KOUS has participated in preparation of the project of developing an
educational module of NGO management.
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JAHODA
Vybíralova 969, 198 00 Praha 9
www.jahodaweb.cz
Contact person: Bc. Markéta Kalinová
ABOUT US
JAHODA is a non-profit
organization which has
helped
socially
disadvantaged
children
and families since 1997. It
is based on the following
principles:
− Children first –
the main subject
and purpose of all
activities
of
JAHODA
is
assistance
to
needy,
endangered and
socially disadvantaged children, with an emphasis on prevention.
− Transparency - an open and fair attitude, meaning “fair play”, is an
integral part of all activities.
−
Civic activity/social responsibility - willingness and the belief in the
possibility of “changing the world” by oneself – it is a principle which
unites all volunteers and members of JAHODA.
− Teamwork - group work allows all team members to develop dynamically
and always to use their potential effectively - whether they work with
children or perform other activities.
JAHODA operates at the housing estate Černý Most. The focus of its work is
providing services under the Act No 108/2006 Sb. on Social Services. However,
further offered programs are also important.
These are registered social services:
26. The easy admission club JAHODA for children from the housing estate
Černý Most (age 6-15)
27. The easy admission club Džagoda for children and youth from the
housing estate Černý Most and its vicinity (age 12-18)
28. Terrain contact work for children and young people (age12-18)
Further programs:
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family center Jahůdka for parents with preschool children from the
housing estate Černý Most and its vicinity
Jahodárna – activities for the neighborhood community
JAHODA contributes to unemployment reduction by means of these programs:
THE EASY ADMISSION CLUBS AND THE TERRAIN PROGRAM FOR
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
By means of consulting, social workers support creating of young people's
hierarchy of life values. These values are especially education and work. Because
most clients come from families where either one of the parents or both of them
are unemployed, we motivate the clients to address these issues more
responsibly, to try hard to finish school and above all, after its graduation, to be
interested in acquiring a job. Social workers particularly help the clients to cope
with school duties, a choice of school, searching for part-time jobs and a full-time
job.
Jahůdka – in the scope of secondary activities, the family center Jahůdka offers
ones which are designed for parents with very small children and which contribute
to unemployment reduction, such as:
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jahůdková školička/nursery – morning babysitting (babies over 1 year,
three times a week). In the meantime, the parents can deal with their own
activities, education or, possibly, job duties.
English language education – we offer parents morning courses of English while
babysitting is ensured. Language skills are another prerequisite for a successful
entry onto the labor market after parental leave.
Jahodárna – in the scope of
the community center, we offer
activities
for
the
public.
Because most people at the
housing estate Černý Most
belong to the lower class, we
offer leisure activities in the
center for a symbolic entrance
fee. These activities include
mainly professional lectures,
consulting, PC, art workshop,
etc.
JAHODA offers single part-time jobs for parents
on parental leave. They include mainly
babysitters in the morning nursery
and
lecturers of the courses.
At present, the organization has submitted the
project “Support for Parents Returning onto the
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nd
Labor Market after Parental Leave” in the scope of the 2 call of the Operational
Program Prague-Adaptability. In case the requested subsidy is assigned, we will
extend Jahoda services to include training modules for parents returning onto the
labor market.
Particular activities: counseling, informal education, social integration of socially
excluded groups, direct support.
Easy admission clubs and the terrain program for children and youth –these
programs provide assistance in case of problems which children and young
people encounter with. Social workers are prepared to listen to them, to advise, to
provide information, to assist in case of a crisis, to accompany a client wherever
needed, to assist within negotiations with an institution or with a person who is
close to the client. If necessary, they recommend other related services. We
organize weekend and summer stays and, if necessary, remedial classes or
assistance with school duties. We also offer leisure activities to clients: PC, music
rehearsal studio, art workshops, sports activities, etc.
The services are provided free of charge and anonymously. The clubs can be
visited at opening hours, no prearrangement needed.
Jahůdka - The family center Jahůdka enables parents and children to spend time
together in an environment different from home, to experience new situation in
interaction with other people, to create and consolidate social contacts and links
in order to prevent social exclusion of parents on parental leave and of preschool children. Another target is engaging parents in the program of the club so
that they take part in creation of its content.
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OBLASTNÍ UNIE NESLYŠÍCÍCH OLOMOUC
Jungmannova 25, 77200 Olomouc
www.ounol.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Panský Ota
ABOU US
První písemný záznam o Výborové schůzi organizace neslyšících v Olomouci z
The first written record of the Committee meeting of the organization of the deaf in
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Olomouc is from November 25 1950. The organization for people with hearing
impairment has worked continuously with various names. In November 1997, the
organization completely spun off from the Czech Union of the Deaf and the
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independent Regional Union of the Deaf in Olomouc was registered on April 7
1998. Subsequently, in autumn 1998, creation of the Czech-Moravian Unity of the
Deaf, domiciled in Brno, has been initiated.
The Multifunctional Training Center for not only deaf people:
In the scope of the project, modifications to the existing office building of the
Regional Union of the Deaf in Olomouc were made: enlargement of the existing
building, adjustments of its vicinity and furnishing of the newly built and renovated
rooms for the purpose of establishing of the Multifunctional Training Center.
The main objective of the project was creating of the multifunctional training
center for deaf people from the Region of Olomouc and its vicinity. The project
increased the capacity of services which promote social integration of the deaf,
enhanced the capacity of services in the field of active employment policy
designed for hearing impaired people and the capacity for hearing impaired
people's lifelong learning. Project created a total of 2 new working positions.
Activities of the training center are intended for all categories of hearing
impairment, i.e. on the scale from the completely deaf to the slightly impaired,
from Olomouc and the Region of Olomouc, their families and friends. Due to the
uniqueness of its supply, the Center is also used by the hearing impaired from
throughout the country. The established Center also serves persons interested in
learning sign language, professional staff of public institutions coming into contact
with hearing impaired people and other interested parties from the general public.
Demand for the offered services is great, especially with regard to the limited
supply, particularly in the very city of Olomouc. The project is unique even from
the nationwide perspective.
Our organization has registered 5 social services for which subsidies from the
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and now even from the Individual Project
(subsidized by the EU) of the Region of Olomouc through public procurement, are
requested. Further funding was also obtained from the statutory town of Olomouc
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for ensuring the operation of social services.
The registered services:
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Basic and professional social counseling for persons with hearing
impairment
Interpreting for persons with hearing impairment
Socially activation services for persons with hearing impairment
Telephone and SMS crisis assistance for persons with hearing
impairment
Social rehabilitation for persons with hearing impairment - now from the
Individual project the Region of Olomouc through public procurement
All these services contribute to integration of persons with hearing impairment
and to reduction of their unemployment.
Our organization receives funding from other grants. These grants are initiated for
example by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Health, the Office of the
Government of the Czech Republic, the City of Olomouc and the like. They are
focused on education (this has the effect of reduction of unemployment and
integration of persons with hearing impairment into society), cultural activities,
leisure activities, rehabilitation stays etc. and are designed for all people with
hearing impairment without distinction of age.
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CENTRUM MULTIRKULTURNÍHO VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ, O.S.
Telečská 1802/68, 586 01 Jihlava
Tel.: +420 774619933, 602503699,739600146 email: [email protected]
www.centrum-ji.tym.cz
Contact person: Ing. Dana Fiedlerová, Mgr. Jana Horská Ph.D., Radim
Fiedler
ABOUT US
The organization arose as an independent entity in 2007 as a result of separating
of educational programs that were originally implemented under the umbrella of
the Christian Aid Center Jihlava. The educational programs originally designed for
the unemployed were extended to be available also for immigrants. In 2009, the
organization defined three main activities – integration of immigrants, integration
of Romanies and sustainable development. An important part of the educational
programs is to help clients to address the problem of joblessness or to avert the
threat of losing their job. The organization is the only one in the region that
provides a comprehensive range of services for immigrants and which is, in
cooperation with the Region of Vysočina, preparing a concept of the region policy
in the field of social inclusion of Romany ethnic group.
SOCIAL REHABILITATION
Within this service, we provide clients from different socially-cultural background
(immigrants, Romanies, the homeless) with teaching languages (Czech language
in case of immigrants), teaching computer work; furthermore, by the form of
various interactive events and club programs, we provide teaching of the basic
socially-cultural skills needed for integration into society. According to those
programs, we lead clients to find a proper job that matches their education or we
improve their competitiveness so that, in case of losing a job, they can more likely
find a new one on the labor market. The central program, in addition to teaching
languages, is psychotherapeutic care which is provided to clients in a gentle way
and leads to enhanced client's self-esteem. As a part of the services, we provide
clients with specific consulting for addressing their current problems that are
usually associated with competition on the labor market (filling in forms, writing
CV, certificate validation etc.). In addition to addressing issues related to
employment, we are able to provide clients with care within addressing other
issues of happy life, such as housing etc.
One of the forms of our activity is also exerting influence on the major society for
the purpose of building up culturally diverse and yet functioning society. We hold
miscellaneous multicultural events with participation of performers from various
countries and lectures on topics such as culture and social work in our country
and other ones, Romany history, culture and mentality, etc. Visitors are pupils or
students from schools and the public.
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ASISTENCE O.S.
V Pevnosti 4, 128 41 Praha 2
www.asistence.org
Contact person: Mgr. Markéta Francová
ABOUT US
Since 1995, we have provided services to people with physical and multiple
disabilities who want to work and to actively live in society. The impetus to the
founding of the association was the need to help students of Practical School of
Jedlička Institute in Prague during their transition from school to practical life (the
Transition Program). At first, we ensured opportunities of practice for these
students and assistance within finding a job. Currently we provide services to
clients whose number is still growing and also we react to their needs through
extension of services.
Since 2006, we have offered our services not only to students and leavers of
schools of Jedlička Institute but also to other people with physical and multiple
disabilities.
Since 2007, we have been registered providers of social rehabilitation services
and personal assistance.
A multi-disciplinary team of social workers, special educators, a psychologist and
ergotherapists operates in our association.
Supported employment is one of the services we provide in the scope of social
rehabilitation. This service is intended for people who are looking for a job on the
open labor market. Together with a consultant in individual meetings, the client
learns the skills needed for finding a suitable job – for instance how to write a
CV, how to submit your ad, how to prepare for a job interview etc. The consultant
may also accompany the client within all negotiations related to a job; he/she is
usually present when the client is getting trained at a new workplace. Also a job
assistant can assist to the training.
The consultant provides services - in addition to support of the client - to the
employer as well: he/she can cope with all the formalities related to employing
people with disabilities, can identify job description appropriate for that person,
can suggest possible barrier-free workplace adjustments, etc.
This service helps to reduce unemployment because it helps people with physical
and multiple disabilities to find a suitable job. Assistance is also provided to
employers who are going to employ disabled people.
Other services resulting in reduction of unemployment, which provides our
organization, are: career planning consulting (one-off job consulting), non-
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standard jobs (finding job opportunities in a protected environment), PC worktraining and other working skills.
Because most of our clients belonging to the target group cannot get to work
without aid, an integral part of all of these services is the provision of personal
assistance.
Other services we provide are: in the scope of social rehabilitation we provide
consulting in the field of education, appropriate housing, leisure time activities. In
the range of personal assistance, in addition to the provision of personal
assistance itself, we offer consulting in the field of barrier-free adaptations,
mobility aids, information on obtaining finance for personal assistance.
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ASOCIACE RODIČŮ A PŘÁTEL POSTIŽENÝCH DĚTÍ, KLUB Č.
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Biskupcova 84, 130 00 Praha 3
www.alfabet.cz
Contact person: Bc. Kristýna Veinlichová
ABOUT US
The mission of the club is to find a way to improve the lives of families caring for
children with disabilities. Club Prague 3 is a part of the nationwide umbrella
organization - the Association of Parents and Friends of Handicapped Children in
the Czech Republic. Each club has its own legal personality. A common vision of
the Association and its individual branches is associating of families and
professionals caring for children with health problems and also their friends and
other concerned persons who are willing to improve the lives of disabled children
and their families.
The Club of Parents and Children Prague 3 arose from the needs of parents and
their disabled children to relax from everyday worries, to spend their leisure time
comfortably and meaningfully, to learn and acquire information from professionals.
These are the target groups which the Club works with:
− children with disabilities,
− healthy children,
− volunteers,
− parents of children with disabilities,
− social services workers.
In 2007, the club became a certified provider of social services with a focus on
basic and specialized social counseling.
The Club was founded in 2002. The first event of our club was a psychorehabilitation sojourn for parents and children with disabilities in the barrier-free
center Březejc. Our further activities were swimming for disabled children in the
pool Hostivař, organizing of summer camps for children with disabilities, and basic
and specialized social counseling.
Currently, the Club Prague 3 significantly contributes to the development of knowhow for work with parental self-help groups, which is a part of the provision of
social services to a whole family with a handicapped child.
The Club Prague 3, together with the organization Alfa H.S., creates a
methodological and practical background for training facilitators of self-help
groups, for supervision of their work and for consulting on education of people
who care for a close person.
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The objective of the service is to provide families with aid and support by means
of:
29. assistance within overcoming difficult life situations (therapeutic work and
work in a self-help group),
30. education of parents in the area of special care for children with
disabilities
31. employment consulting
32. basic and specialized social counseling
33. information service (delivering information and contacts)
Services are realized by means of:
- psycho-rehabilitation stays - weekly stays include both the professional part and
the respite one. The parents attend workshops aimed to promoting their own
personality (prevention of burnout syndrome, communication, partnerships,
psycho-hygiene etc.), job consulting (harmony between special care for children
with disabilities and succeeding on the labor market).
The respite part allows the parents and their children to relax through creative and
gaming activities.
- basic and specialized social counseling that is provided by telephone and by
personal contact.
- activation services (camps, swimming, training for parents, creative workshops).
The output of these activities is activation of the parents with a focus on
succeeding on the labor market in accordance with the special care for a child
with a disability and developing and delivering know-how for work with self-help
support groups to other professionals and organizations caring for parents with
children with disabilities.
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ALFA HUMAN SERVICE
Biskupcova 84, 130 00 Praha
www.alfabet.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Martina Chmelová
ABOUT US
The Alfa Human Service is a civic association whose main mission is to offer
support and assistance to persons providing care, both laymen and experts, by
means of delivering information in the fields:
− care for a child with disabilities, including aids and toys,
− social and legal assistance and job consulting for carers,
− education and integration,
− support and assistance to caring parents and professionals,
− employment of carers,
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computer courses.
The Alfa Human Service was established in 2000. At that time, the main activity
was consulting via the website www.alfabet.cz. Gradually, the organization was
acquiring a professional dimension and since 2007 it has been an accredited
educational institution of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (No. 2007/792 - I)
and a registered provider of social counseling and social activation services for
families with children.
The main target groups are:
34. parents of children with disabilities and weakening,
35. parents of healthy children,
36. social workers,
37. professionals providing care to families with children with disabilities,
38. unemployed women.
Since 2005, the Alpha Human Service implements educational projects to reduce
unemployment through the European Social Fund. In the years 2005-2008 these
projects were implemented: "Education and Practice for Carers of a Dependent
Family Member, "Support for People Potentially Endangered by Unemployment"
and "Active Support for People Endangered by Unemployment".
The educational projects were implemented through IT training courses and job
counseling. The IT education was designed as a retraining course, and thus the
participants could obtain the ECDL certificate.
At present, the civic association Alpha Human Service has implemented 2
projects which are supported by the ESF in the range of the OP HRE. Our further
project is the information website "Alfabet" (http://www.alfabet.cz) which is
regularly supported by grants from the MLSA.
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The main objective of the project is to provide knowledge and skills to at least
sixty parents of children with disabilities through a training course focused on
prevention of burnout syndrome and on assistance within entering the labor
market. The goals of the project contribute to the parents' chance to leave
dependence on the state social system, to prevention of clients' dependence on
the social service and to increasing of the availability and quality of regional social
services provided to the parents of children with disabilities. The project is being
realized in the Middle-Bohemia Region and in the Region of Pardubice through
outpatient and residential workshops which focus on topics:
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Prevention of burnout syndrome
Basic elements of psycho-hygiene
Work with a person in crisis and perception of trauma
Communications, partnerships, the status of the healthy sibling
Aggression and sexuality of children with disabilities
Support for parents entering the labor market
The main outcome of the project is to reduce unemployment in the target groups
and to enable them to further their personal development through training courses
and consultancy.
The main objective of the project is to provide forty persons who seek work with
knowledge and skills allowing them maximal independence and good orientation
on the labor market. The support is provided in the form of a long-term
comprehensive program focused on teaching IT, basic work and communication
skills. The project is designed for parents on parental leave, for persons caring for
dependent family member and for unemployed women from the Middle-Bohemia
Region. The course is finished after passing a certified ECDL test. Within the
project, the clients are provided with financial support for babysitting during the
courses and with a transport allowance. The output of the project is to reduce
unemployment in the target groups and to enable them to further their personal
development through training courses and motivation activities.
The information website Alfabet provides information and advice in the field of
caring for children and adults with disabilities to the general public. The target
group is predominantly parents of disabled children from the entire country.
Another group which the website is intended for is providers of social services,
physicians, social workers, special educators, volunteers, etc.
The output of this project is a regularly updated information service that allows
orientation in the issue of care for families with children with disabilities.
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DENNÍ CENTRUM BAREVNÝ SVĚT
Okružní 962, 674 01 Třebíč
www.barevny-svet.eu
Contact person: Alena Hostašová
ABOUT US
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The Denní centrum barevný svět was founded on September 1 2005 as a nongovernmental non-profit organization that provides social services to people (1664 years) with mental and multiple disabilities. Our services are designed for
people with mental and multiple disabilities who live within the 40 km radius of the
town of Třebíč. The capacity of the day-care center is 25 users of the services.
We provide users with transport to and from the city center. The main objective of
the day-care center Colorful World is integration of mentally disabled people into
society. We want our clients to achieve maximum development of their skills,
knowledge and habits by means of ergotherapy, hippotherapy, artetherapy,
canistherapy, work in the garden, teaching of reading, writing and numeracy and
work in the training kitchen. The operational objective of our work is to maximize
our clients' independence, to support development of manual dexterity and
professional ability, interaction of personality components and promoting positive
friendly relationships.
The activity of the day-care is predominantly focused on working in therapeutic
workshops. By means of work in therapeutic workshops, the users of the services
improve their dexterity and motion and coordination abilities, develop their
perception, attention, memory, thinking, their own will and imagination. The daycare center offers work in the pottery and art workshop, the sewing and woodprocessing workshop. Another offer is work in the garden and in the training
kitchen. We produce promotional items for companies on contract. Products from
the single workshops are sold directly in the day-care center.
In the scope of social integration, we take part in various sales events - markets
and fairs where the users actively participate in the sale of the products. Under
guidance of the day-care center workers, they learn how to pack the sold
products, communicate with customers and count money.
People with mental and multiple disabilities belong to the group with the highest
long-term unemployment rate and thus to the one which is most endangered with
social exclusion. Our day-care center implements training courses and education
to increase the skills enhancing their potential of employment on the open labor
market. This means general education as well as basic personal computer
operation and a money management course.
Within the course "Introduction to personal computer operation”, we use a
textbook which is designed for people with mental disabilities.
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In the scope of the project Money Management, they learn to recognize money,
get to know the value of money, recognize goods and services important for them
and learn to calculate a purchase and to pay properly. They get to comprehend
how money appears in their life and what money is expended for (income expenditure). They learn the methods of saving and the rules to avoid being
robbed or cheated.
The clients’ favorite activities in our day-care center also include trips, sport and
culture. Just this is the place where persons with intellectual disabilities often
face normal people. Common meetings support not only social integration but
also teach the general public to communicate and remove barriers.
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APPN, O. S.
Vratislavova 12, 128 00 Praha 2
www.appn.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Marie Horáková
ABOUT US
APPN is a non-profit organisation, whose main object is to influence actively the
creation and development of a healthy and stable job market for non-hearing
persons and their integration into the world of hearing people by increasing
accessibility and quality of social services. We realize that for achieving this object
we need a complaisant and open behaviour from the side of a majority group of
hearing people. Therefore we concentrate especially on bringing support in job
obtaining and job retaining, on increasing of mutual respect and about an
acquaintance with this minority group. Within the framework of our work we
communicate with responsible institutions and state authorities.
The core of the APPN project is to improve the status of non-hearing persons on
the job market. Its part is also to support the unemployed persons in looking for a
new job with complementation of all needed skills, to place them on a job market,
to improve their position in job market and to increase their qualification,
especially as to working with internet and as to the communication with their
ambience. But this is not all: for improving the status of non-hearing persons is
necessary also to adjust the large hearing society in order to acknowledge which
limitations are brought by hearing disorders and which merits are connected with
the culture of non-hearing persons. Other our activities are aimed at the firms in
order to get know what are the non-hearing persons like, where are their
advantages and where the limitations in order to avoid misunderstandings.
To our further activities belong lectures, workshops about the job market, actual
informations and multimedial conferences. APPN does not concern only Czech
Republic, but collects also job informations from the European Union.
APPN´s job counselling is aimed at increasing of the concurrence ability of non
hearing persons, especially job obtaining and retaining. APPN emphasizes an
individual access to non-hearing clients and using of different communication
ways. It contributes to the publicity about the non-hearing persons community and
helps spreading information about their culture and language.
APPN also helps to overcome the language and cultural barriers, including
suppressing of rooted prejudices about the non-hearing community, which may
appear among the hearing people.
APPN services are aimed at the people with hearing or combined disorder(s), but
we keep trying to help also their families, their employers and the experts in job
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APPN ensures also the online interpreting service from and into sign language. It
is scheduled mainly for non-hearing persons, if they want, for instance, to contact
a new possible job, but it might be used by their employers as well, if they want,
say, to consult some working procedures with their employees. It is accessible in
the whole Czech Republic from Monday till Friday since 9 a.m.till 5.p.m.
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ŠANCE NA VZDĚLÁNÍ O.P.S.
Škroupova 631, 500 02 Hradec Králové
www.sancenavzdelani.org
Kontaktní osoba: Vlasta Krejčová
O NÁS
ŠANCE NA VZDĚLÁNÍ (A Chance of Education) is a generally profitable society,
recently founded by the Andragogy Centre, which is having a long-time
experience with rendering complex services in the area of personal education,
education within the framework of firms, managing human resources etc. Thanks
to these facts is this society able to use a lot of knowledge and acquired
experiences from the founding society.
ŠANCE prepares projects, bringing innovative elements of reflection on the needs
of education for persons with some disabilities, mainly health and social ones,
and their gradual including into job market. The society´s task is to lead these
persons to the orientation in real world, to self-finding and self-recognizing, to
social and working incorporation and towards psychical harmony.
The society´s targets are:
• The development of information about the social offer of education, cooperation with organisations rendering educational activities, with social
partners and another institutions.
• Job- effeciency increasing (mainly through re-qualification)
• Open courses, actions and workshops, aimed at problems of socially
weak groups, social responsibility, harmonisation of family- and working
life.
• Education, consultations, web-site informations, propagation materials
• International cooperation- transfer of know-how and methods
• Cultural, sport and social actions, travel activities
The Rehabilitation Institute from the city of Kladruby is treating clients after severe
physical injuries, immediately followed by sudden and large disabilities, and it is
going to support its clients during their future social rehabilitation. The project´s
aim is to ease social rehabilitation by enabling of re-qualification, followed by
starting of a job, gained in accordance with the skills and abilities of the clients.
A special target is to create a data-basis of co-operating firms, suitable jobs and
convenient re-qualification, followed by entrance of the clients on the job market,
even after the end of this project.The clients are going to pass through both the
balance and working diagnostics and then they will be able to enter some in
advance chosen jobs.
The part of the project will be also some activities, motivating the clients to assert
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themselves on the job market. Through counselling, re-qualifying education and
proper incorporating disabled people to the job market should the project
contribute to reduce unemployment.
A complex project, being prepared for physically disabled people is already being
negotiated with the ministries, public institutions and societies. The concrete
accordance was achieved.
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Another partial prepared project reflects the contemporary situation as to
the education of physically and/or socially disabled people, including
potential financial support and creating new educative model. There are
courses for mentally disabled people as well, considering dealing with
money, how to travel into the job,etc.
Voluntary educative projects for people of age 50 years and more with
their subsequent assertion on the job market.
International cooperation-affiliations and know-how transfers, concerning
the education and re-qualification of physically disabled people. Obtaining
inspiration from the EU countries.
Other specialized projects, having no relationship with the unemployment
decrease, are not being described here.
ŠANCE NA VZDĚLÁNÍ (A Chance of Education) is a generally profitable society,
recently founded by the Andragogy Centre, which is having a long-time
experience with rendering complex services in the area of personal education,
education within the framework of firms, managing human resources etc. Thanks
to these facts is this society able to use a lot of knowledge and acquired
experiences from the founding society.
ŠANCE prepares projects, bringing innovative elements of reflection on the needs
of education for persons with some disabilities, mainly health and social ones,
and their gradual including into job market.
The society´s task is to lead these persons to the orientation in real world, to selffinding and self-recognizing, to social and working incorporation and towards
psychical harmony.
The society´s targets are:
• The development of information about the social offer of education, cooperation with organisations rendering educational activities, with social
partners and another institutions.
• Job- effeciency increasing (mainly through re-qualification)
• Open courses, actions and workshops, aimed at problems of socially
weak groups, social responsibility, harmonisation of family- and working
life.
• Education, consultations, web-site informations, propagation materials
• Cultural, sport and social actions, travel activities
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The Rehabilitation Institute from the city of Kladruby is treating clients after severe
physical injuries, immediately followed by sudden and large disabilities, and it is
going to support its clients during their future social rehabilitation. The project´s
aim is to ease social rehabilitation by enabling of re-qualification, followed by
starting of a job, gained in accordance with the skills and abilities of the clients.
A special target is to create a data-basis of co-operating firms, suitable jobs and
convenient re-qualification, followed by entrance of the clients on the job market,
even after the end of this project.The clients are going to pass through both the
balance and working diagnostics and then they will be able to enter some in
advance chosen jobs.
The part of the project will be also some activities, motivating the clients to assert
themselves on the job market. Through counselling, re-qualifying education and
proper incorporating disabled people to the job market should the project
contribute to reduce unemployment.
A complex project, being prepared for physically disabled people is already being
negotiated with the ministries, public institutions and societies. The concrete
accordance was achieved.
• Another partial prepared project reflects the contemporary situation as to
the education of physically and/or socially disabled people, including
potential financial support and creating new educative model. There are
courses for mentally disabled people as well, considering dealing with
money, how to travel into the job,etc.
• Voluntary educative projects for people of age 50 years and more with
their subsequent assertion on the job market.
• International cooperation-affiliations and know-how transfers, concerning
the education and re-qualification of physically disabled people. Obtaining
inspiration from the EU countries.
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SOUKROMÁ VYŠŠÍ ODBORNÁ ŠKOLA SOCIÁLNÍ, O. P. S.
Matky Boží 15, 586 01 Jihlava
www.svoss.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Jana Dvořáková
ABOUT US
Soukromá
vyšší
odborná škola sociální
(Private High Social
School) in the city of
Jihlava
The school emphasizes
the
personality
education of a future
social
worker
and
struggles to create a
permanent
set
of
personal
attitudes,
corresponding with the
ethical codex of social
work. The study lasts 23 semesters and the
students (both internal
and external) should be
provided with the proper
communicative abilities
for dealing with the
clients, for presentation
of a group work within
the
student´s
own
projects, for training in
social therapy and in
prevention of negative
phenomena in favour of
a high quality life style.
The object of the school´s educational program is also the education of a
personally stable social worker, equipped with a set of key expert competences
including the moral qualities. A good social worker should be prepared both to the
performance of a helpful profession and to the high quality of his/her personal
life.
The students at school are being educated in all subjects belonging to the minimal
standard of a social worker (philosophy, ethics, sociology, psychology, methods of
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social work, expert practice and its supervision, method and techniques of a
social research, law, social policy, social pathology, problems of minorities, health
and illness). Moreover the school devotes a great attention to foreign languages
teaching (English, German) and applied computing techniques including the basis
of correspondence, which- altogether with the eligible subjects, like personalistics,
economy, non-profit organisations management and pedagogy- are increasing
the possibilities of assertion of the school graduates on the job market.
In
a
long-time
perspective appears a
practical teaching in an
extent of 30% of all
school lectures as a
very good contribution.
The
students
are
practicing in all classes
and in several forms
(running
practice,
continuous,
unrepeated,
above
standard, projecting) in
extent cca 900 hours
for
every
student.
Practices are being
performed
in
eight
areas of social working (public management, health service, educational system,
justice, non-government non-profit organisations, church organisations and
charity, economy and private sector).
Knowledge and skills achieved by formal education increase the possibilities of
assertion on a job market. Through this form of direct support the school
decreases the unemployment of its graduates. We also offer the students
counselling in their choice of further study possibilities and skills increasing, They
may go on studying on the ZMVS school in the city of Třebíč.
The
school
offers
the
possibilities to complete and
enlarge
the
graduate´s
qualification in the following
courses and trainings:
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•
•
The course of care of
family and children (200
hours)
Working with the clients
(systemic
approach)
(100 hours)
Human
resources
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managing for the non-profit organisations(the request was given) (60
hours)
The school includes into the frame of teaching also the co-operation of its
students with children from socially disadvantaged environment, with physically
handicapped people, with seniors or with ethnic minorities. Great part of its work
is devoted also to conceptual projects and to different grant programs.
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ARPZPD V ČR, O.S. - KLUB KLUBÍČKO BEROUN
Bezručova 928, 266 01 Beroun
www.klubicko.org
Contact person: Alena Pecková
ABOUT US
Klubíčko (pronounce Klubeechko) is a non-profit organisation, which came into
existence in 1997, when families with both handicapped and healthy children from
the Beroun region gathered together at the first time. And from a civic association
which originally wanted only to offer some integrated free-time activities and to
mediate for people with similar problems some new social contacts and a mutual
support with an exchange of information became an aid giver, supplying the
missing services.
Now we are the only organisation in the Beroun region who provides complex
social services, special education, expert care, job assertion and some
possibilities of spending free time for families with handicapped children, youth
and adult people in productive age.
All these activities are mutually intertwined. And so came into existence the
integrative centre KLUBÍČKO, whose mission is to support families, caring for
their closest person(s) with some handicap, to support functionality of the family
system and to increase the quality of life of the families with a handicapped
member.
The average daily capacity of the KLUBÍČKO centre is about 45 persons in the
age from 0 to 45 years with different kinds and degrees of permanent health
damage from the regions around the cities Beroun and Hořovice.
As to the project concerning how to diminish unemployment:
Within the framework of our project was created 16 and ¼ new working positions
for persons endangered by the social exclusion. Their new job (or partial job)got:
• 11 parents of handicapped children, who had not been working for a long
time because of caring for the close(st) person
• 4 disabled people who had never been working before
• 3 long-time unemployed people
• 2 university graduated people
• 2 women after the end of maternal vacation
Using of this locally, timely and financially achievable complex of services enabled
17 parents of disabled children to return into their jobs, both in KLUBÍČKO Beroun
and outside of it. This situation helped to improve considerably both the quality of
life of families, caring for a close person with some disability and their integration
and social position.
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One of the key activities of our project was the individual education of the staff of
our centre. Altogether 22 people, endangered by social exclusion, improved the
opportunity and achieved their needed qualifications for working in our centre,
what in fact may enable them in the long-time perspective to assert themselves
better on the job market.
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During the time since April the 1 ,2006, till April the 30 , 2008, our organisation
has created altoghether 27 new working positions for 32 people from the regions
around the cities Beroun, Rakovník and Rokycany
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DIECÉZNÍ CHARITA BRNO - OBLASTNÍ CHARITA JIHLAVA
Jakubské náměstí 2, 586 01 Jihlava
www.charitajihlava.cz
Contact person: Bc. Marek Holemář
ABOUT US
The regional diocese
charity
of
Jihlava,
subordinated
to
the
diocese charity of (the
Moravian Capital) Brno,
is
a
professional
organisation, giving aid
and support to needed
people and to the people
around them. Both its
workers and volunteers
emphasize the human
dignity and the spiritual
value of every human
being and struggles for
change of the attitudes of
people, leading to the increase of social cohesiveness.
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The regional charity Jihlava was established on August the 13 1992 as a
volunteering activity of people who want to help their neighbours in an
emergency, regardless of their race, nationality or religion. At present is the
regional charity Jihlava one of the biggest NGOs, acting in the county of Vysočina
(Bohemian-Moravian Highland). Being subordinated to the Brno Charity it is at the
same time a part of the Czech (Catholic) Charity, belonging to the international
(Catholic) Charity group named Caritas Internationalis.
Its main object groups are the seniors, health disabled people, the youth,
endangered by the social exclusion, the unemployed youth with low working
skills, the Romale (gipsy) community and its specific problems, drugs abusers and
other people in disadvantageous social situation.
To the regional charity Jihlava belong also 8 professional social service facilities in
different smaller cities,7 professional social prevention facilities (clubs for risky
youths, requalifications, seniors activations and so on) and 4 volunteering parish
charities. In 2008 had the Charity Jihlava almost 80 employees and its budget
exceeded 31,5 millions of Czech crowns. (1,25 mil. Euro)
The project called MALÁ ŘEMESLA (The Small Crafts) is a chance for the
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unemployed youth, who has no higher level of education but the elementary/basic
school because of the different social handicaps, like behaviour problems at
school, family problems, drugs and alcohol abuse, minor criminality, belonging to
ethnic
minorities,
institute
education
(instead
of
–
dysfunctional- family care) etc.
The Small Crafts Program is
from
these
reasons
a
combination of motivation,
education and employment. It
is a professional facility, whose
aim is to give to the
unemployed
youth
with
incomplete education an equal
access to education and skills
and the chance to assert
themselves on the job market.
We are running 5 months
lasting re-qualification courses
(of carpentry, room painting, gardening, sewing etc.) with an individual access to
their members, because our objective is not only to teach, but also to motivate.
Teaching runs in small groups with 4-6 members. An active aid in job searching
after the end of teaching course is the part of our program as well. This fact
changes their social state: from overlooked and excluded groups they are
becoming accepted and useful citizens. The project co-operates closely with the
Working Bureau in Jihlava and contributes to the diminishing of unemployment in
the city of Jihlava and around it.
PARK IN PARK
The project “Park in Park” was being realized in the years 2006-8 with support of
the European Social Fund and it was orientated on supporting the long-time
unemployed youth with a low qualification level. The target of this project was to
improve
through
an
appropriate
form
of
education the situation of the
target group and at the
same time to contribute to
their social integration. The
first
phases,
called
Orientation,
was
aimed
mainly at the motivationorientation activities which
were being realized during
50 hours of a motivational
course. The second phase,
called Qualification, lasted
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for 6 months, and it was aimed at the increase of the attendants´ skills and
knowledge. A part of this phase were also the long-time, 700 hours lasting requalification courses. On the third phase, called Integration, participated also the
local employers.
Other Charity project, like for instance, the project called ERKO Jihlava, or the
“Low-threshold club” called Vrakbar (Wreck bar) are aimed at the integration of
children mainly from the Romale ethnic minority and/or to prevent social risks and
to create conditions for the actual problems´ solution. There is also a centre
named “U Větrníku” (Beside the weathercock) for young drug abusers or the
“Dobrovolnické centrum (Volunteering centre) Jihlava”, acting since September
2006.
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GREEN DOORS, O. S.
Jelení 15/196, 180 00 Praha 1
www.greendoors.cz
Contact person: Svetlana Pokorná - Vrablecová
ABOUT US
The civic association, named in English “Green doors”, was established in 1993
from the iniciative of employees of the Daily psychotherapeutic sanatorium,called
“Nad Ondřejovem” who felt the need to enlarge the sanatorium´s health service
by the subsequent rehabilitation care. In the first stage of its existence the
association realized a row of projects, aimed mainly at the social rehabilitation
and free time. In 1997 was opened the first “training café” in Czech Republic,
named “Café na půl cesty” (Café on a halfway). Since that time is the association
devoted mainly to the working rehabilitation of young people with a short-time
experience with a psychical illness. Between the years 1998-2001 was the offer
being gradually enlarged by the following programs: a training workshop, targeted
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to cleaning works (1998),a training café named “The 5 column club”(1999), a
training café “Club in Jelení” (in the Deer Street) (2000) and “Trafika na bráně”
(Tobacconist´s in the Gate) (2001-4). Except the cafés were created also another
programs aimed at enlarging and improving of the possibilities of social
rehabilitation and of pre-job preparation. Between the years 1999-2006 were
gradually coming into existence the following programs: “Transient employment in
Friendly Cafés”(1999), “Program of a Personal working development” (2001),
“Job Club”(2003), “Terrain Social Work” and “Social Counselling” (both in 2004).
Another of them were for instance “The training group of social skills” (2005),or
“The supported employment” (2006). There is also a counselling for the work with
PC or outdoor trips for the psychiatric patients.
In the “Café on a halfway” are being offered to the patients different jobs with the
support of therapists. Patients may be working as barmen/barwomen or
distributing leaflets. There is being offered also cleaning of the café´s environs, of
the park or of the neighbouring city quarters (Mo-Fri 2-3 hours daily).
This training is mainly devoted to young people, who are having short experience
with mental illness and who are at the same time interested in training of working
skills, who want to prepare themselves to some usual job or to study and who
want to verify their skills, to improve them or to acquire some new ones.
The training leader is the therapist. The key worker (the “patron”) together with the
therapist set the individual goals and plans, how to achieve these goals, and how
the “café” may be helpful during this process.
The patron helps to solve the actual problems, gives a feedback, teaches
concrete skills and helps during the transition to the new job.
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As to diminishing the unemployment, we are in 70% of all cases successful.
Through the cultural actions which are being organized by the café, we contribute
to “de-stigmatization” of mental illnesses and at the same time by doing this we
are opening new possibilities for these people, including new jobs.
We are offering a wide scale of complementary programs as well. And- last, but
not least- we offer also the short-term attachments for students. It helps them to
prepare to their future jobs.
“Supported employment” offers a rough version of an employment as a training
for some real employment. It discovers the individual extent of readiness and
helps to improve the patient´s adaptability.
An important role plays here the consultant, who negotiates, organizes and
coordinates the contacts with the employer. If needed, he/she may assist just on
the workplace.
This program helps to find a suitable job, supports the client in his/her
negotiations with the employer, helps with the administration and its worker may
also asccompany the client to the negotiations with authorities. The beginning is
always an informative meeting, further is being given an aid, support and
informations.
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OBČANSKÁ PORADNA TŘEBÍČ
Přerovského 126/6, 674 01 Třebíč
www.optrebic.ic.cz
Contact person: Bc. Eva Krčková
ABOUT US
The civic counselling centre (of the city) Třebíč started its activity under the
auspices of the city Třebíč in October 1999 and since that time it has been giving
advices, information and an active aid to anybody, who turns to it in an adverse
life situation. Since January 2000 it has been independent and it has become an
integral part of the social services offer in the city of Třebíč. It keeps giving aid
and preventively ensures its users not to suffer from an unawareness of their
rights and duties, unawareness of accessible services or because of their
unability to express effectively their needs. This service is being given to any
citizen in the counselling centre´s office in Přerovského street in Třebíč, No.
126/6.
The counselling service´s goal is to enable the people in an adverse life situation
to solve it through free of charge, impartial, independent and discrete information
and advices and, if needed, also through some further help, including the field
counselling and assistance. Considering the Czech Legislation (The Social
Services Act) must this kind of service be being given completely free of charge
and therefore it is entirely dependent on donations. The counselling service is a
member of the Civic Counselling Association (Asociace občanských poraden,
AOP). The AOP is a founding member of the Pan-European organization “Citizen
Advice International”.
“TO BRING THE JOB INTO HARMONY WITH THE FAMILY REQUIRES A
TOIL”.
Through our attachment into the project with that name in 2009 we enlarged the
net of so called pro-Equality counsellors, who are giving individual counselling to
some disadvantaged persons, struggling for return into their jobs. Through our
individual access we want to help people, who have been out of job market for a
long time and who need on their way towards the new employment to be better
and more systematically orientated both in their own actual situation and in the
job market possibilities. The project is aimed mainly at the target group of the
women with babies, being after maternal holidays and struggling for their return
into job market. The project is being co-donated by the European Social Fund and
by the Czech State Budget in the framework of an operative program “Human
resources and employment”.
To the unpaid aids of this counselling service belongs also the counselling,
considering the employment and the working-legal relationships. During the last
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year were in that area given 178 consultations. The clients here are mostly either
young people with babies or people in the age over 50.
Our organization contributes through unpaid counselling to diminish the
unemployment and gives advices and information how to keep oneself in the job
market and what are the rights and duties of the citizens.
We continue in our counselling services in this year as well. We are engaged in
the special conditions of women and young people, in the right for financial
compensation and for holiday, in the relationships on the place of work and
others.
To our other projects belongs also: The debt problems and counselling as to the
financial literacy, field civic counselling, counselling in favour of the victims of
criminal deeds and home violence, and an eco-counselling for the consumers.
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OBLASTNÍ CHARITA PARDUBICE
V Ráji 732, Pardubice
www.charitapardubice.cz
Contact person: Anna Čevorová
ABOUT US
The regional charity of the city Pardubice was founded by the bishop Karel
Otčenášek in May 1992. It belongs to the international family of the (Catholic)
Caritas organizations. The Catholic Church is founding the charitable centres
almost everywhere where it acts. The Charity´s mission is embodied in its name.
The Latin word “caritas” means love, being manifested in the service of one
human to another, mainly to such one, who suffers.
The mission and goal of the Regional charity Pardubice is to help people in
material, social, health, psychical and spiritual emergency.
Its target group is being formed by the citizens of the Pardubice region, who are
because of their age, loss of self-sufficiency, illness or some health handicap
unable to ensure (either themselves or with an aid of their family members) their
life needs which are not being ensured in an adequate way otherwise either. The
other target group are the people in a hard material, social or health emergency,
or, as the case may be, people afflicted with catastrophes in Czech Republic or
anywhere in the world.
PODANÉ RUCE (HELPING HANDS)
The content of this project is an enlarging of the contemporary care service being
given by the Regional Charity Pardubice into the rural areas around the city
Pardubice, establishing a laundry in the Senior Centre Moravany for the clients of
the Regional Charity and of the NGOs. In the case of free capacity will be these
services being ensured for the civil sector as well. Furthermore will be in
Třebosice built up the business premises for the purpose of manipulation,
assortment and processing of textiles, coming mostly from a humanitarian aid, for
further using. The project presumes an enlarging of the charity caring aid and
introducing of a respite (relieving) care in Moravany. The charity aid and respite
care centre will be established in Třebosice (acting in the micro-region “Behind
the airport”) and a new Charity care centre will be established in the Lázně (=Spa)
Bohdaneč.
“COMMUNEM REDDERE” (BRINGING BACK THE SOLIDARITY)
The goal of this project, which is being sponsored by the European Social Fund
and in which the Regional Charity Pardubice cooperates with the German Charity
“Caritasverband” in Osnabruck, is to ensure an accessibility of social services
also in the smaller villages (under 1 000 inhabitants). The Osnabruck Charity has
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a good, long-time experience with ensuring of such service. The model of their
work is based on the partnership with local organisations and on the using of local
resources. On the basis of this good experience from Germany would the
Pardubice charity like to work in accordance with this model as well and to
enlarge this way the accessibility of its offered services. The Regional Charity of
Pardubice has been co-operating for many years with the Working Bureau.
As to the reduction of unemployment, no other special projects are being created
at this time.But as to the whole complex of all Charity activities, it would like
during near future to improve and to enlarge the home health nursing care and
the home hospice (palliative) care.
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ORGANIZACE NEVIDOMÝCH
Havlíčkova 38, 586 01 Jihlava
www.organizacenevidomych.cz
Contact person: Pavel Hegner
ABOUT US
The Organisation of unseeing people in the city of Jihlava is a civic association,
established in 2003 as an expression of a free will of its members to develop
activities in favour of the blind and dim-sighted people. It advocates their rights,
needs and interests, takes part in establishing and functioning of a complex
system of prevention and treatment of visual handicaps, in social rehabilitation
and in integration of unseeing and dim-sighted people. It associates unseeing and
dim-sighted people, provides them services in such a way to achieve a maximal
possible extent of equivalence of these persons with the healthy public. The
associations acts in the whole Czech Republic. The main goal of the organisation
is to mitigate the negative limitations caused by the sight damage. One of the
main tasks of the Organisation of unseeing people is the development, working
out and realisation of the programs of health, social and working rehabilitation,
training, education, re-qualification and re-condition of the unseeing and dimsighted persons of all age groups.
We provide working-legal counselling for the unseeing and dim-sighted people,
we ensure them an aid during their search for job, we are mapping the situation
on the job market and cooperating with the authorities. We put on the specific
courses (job club), in which we teach our clients the skills which they need during
their negotiations with the employer. We put on also re-conditional educational
stays, trainings and re-qalifications.
Other projects from our side are not being developed at this time.
Within the framework of this project we provide the following services:
a)Social work and counselling: We advice, how and where may the citizen
with sight damage acquire the certificate ZTP or ZTP/P (especially severely
physically handicapped person/especially severely physically handicapped
person with the need of having a guide) and which advantages has the
holder of such a certificate and what benefits, contributions and
compensational requisites may gain the citizen with damaged sight. As the
case may be, we may accompany him/her to the appurtenant authorities.
b) Social rehabilitation: An instructor of practical education (of self-service)
and of space orientation will help the person with sight damage to acquire
such skills, that he/she may be depended on his environs as little as
possible. To the instructor may turn also the family members and guides of
the person with sight damage in order to acquire the information.
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c) Compensational requisites: Teaching the clients to work with PC with
vocal or magnifying program, demonstration of other demanding
compensational requisites, the clients´ training. We issue the
recommendations of compensational requisites for the social department.
d) Assistance service: Guiding, household aid, tidying-up, shopping,
reading, help during the choice of clothes, help during the hand workings.
e)Guding and reading services: Accompanying to the offices, to the
physicians,etc.
f)free-time activities: Social and informatory club, trips, competitions,
culture, sport.
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VIDA
V Horkách 12, 140 00 Praha 4
www.ivida.cz, www.vidacentrum.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Jitka Styblíková, Mgr. Mirka Podgornych
ABOUT US
The civic association VIDA (in Spanish it means: life) is a non-profit NGO, which
has been working since 2003 in the area of mental health and illness. It was
founded in order to ensure the project of the Information centres, created in 2001
by the CRPDZ organization.
Its mission and long-time goal is to use the personal potential of the health care
users. VIDA is a whole-national organization, using in a meaningful way the
client´s personal story for helping other similarly ill people, their parents, relatives
and the large public as well.
Our motto is: “Who may be adviced, may be helped.”
The intention of all VIDA´s activities is an answer to four human needs:
• To use the health potential within of the health care users, their intimate
knowledge of the illness, care and of the life situation of a mentally ill
human.
• To give to the health care users the needed expert information about the
treatment and the life, about solving the different stress situations, which
are being brought by an illness, from the view of this person, who
himself/herself passed through something like that and so he/she knows
more exactly than the health care professionals, what might happen and
which problem solving(s) and attitude(s) are the most viable and at the
same time the most contributive for the life and for the rehabilitation (good
experiences).
• To give to the health care users a structured activity, in which they might
help someone else actively and in which they would be able at the same
time to rehabilitate themselves through their giving help.
• To help to activate the movement of the health care users.
The VIDA centres are informative and counselling ones. Except this there is a
media group, prevention group and activation and support of the health care
users movement. And the centres also participate with the system changes.
The VIDA centres are now situated in many Czech cities (Brno, Jeseník, Kolín,
Pardubice, Plzeň, Praha, Rakovník and Ústí nad Labem). Since 2007 are the
VIDA centres a registrated social service (expert social counselling). They are
being led by the psychiatric health care users with the support of a professional.
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They provide support, “low-threshold” accessible information and advices in the
area of mental health and illness, about the service providers and users. They
help the client to orientate in a demanding life situation.
The target group are both mentally ill people and their parents and relatives, even
the large public. The services are being provided both in the office and by so
called mobile team, when the counsellors are visiting their clients in bed facilities,
especially in psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric wards or stationeries. Clients may
get in touch also through the phone or e-mail.
The counsellors are participating with different actions like “Weeks of mental
health”, “Between the fences” etc. We employ mentally unhealthy people, who
have no great chance to get a job on an open job market. We educate them and
develop their skills and abilities. We help reducing the stigmatisation of mentally
sick people.
Co-operation-VIDA helps cooperation between the users and self-help groups.
Every year it arranges a meeting with training. All the participants are motivated to
cooperation through the commonly created mini-project.
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OBČANSKÉ SDRUŽENÍ ROMODROM
Fantova 1783, 155 00 Praha 5
www.romodrom.cz
Contact person: Marie Gailová
ABOUT US
The civic association Romodrom is a non-profit NGO founded in 2002 for the
following purpose:
Providing social services and counselling for people in difficult life situation,
supporting children and youth from socially excluded environs and supporting the
principles of a democratic society. (Motto: Džanas peskero drom=we know our
way).
During the fulfilment of our mission we follow these principles: To acknowledge
the client´s environment, to take into account its specific condition, to understand
the reasons of an unfavourable situation, to solve it in a complex way a to search
for solutions leading towards the client´s gaining independence.
From the history: In 2002 was our organization founded, the Program for free time
arose. We participated with the solution of the situation of the inhabitants from a
socially excluded locality named “Cihelna” (The Brickfield) in Prague 10.
2003: The first program in the social area-The Prison program-arose.
2004: The Prison program is being realized through the aid of volunteers. Our
office moved to the centre of Prague.
2005:
Professionalization
(www.romodrom.cz)
of
the
Prison
program.
Own
website
2006: Both the Free time and the Prison programs are running. Program
“Romodrom for the regions” arose.
2007:Except the already running, above mentioned programs arises the Human
Rights Program and the project: “Through Knowledge against Discrimination”.
Social programs were registered as social services.
2008: Program “Romodrom for the regions” works in 6 Czech areas. The “Low
threshold” (an organisation for children and youth in Prague) was established.
2009: All the above mentioned programs are running. The organisation is
engaged in a local partnership with the Agency for abolishing the socially
excluded localities.
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THE PROGRAMS “ROMODROM FOR THE REGIONS” AND “PRISON
PROGRAM”.
The goal of the program “Romodrom for the regions” is the integration of persons
endangered by social exclusion through field social work. (These persons are
mostly the members of the Romale /=gipsy/ national minority). It concerns both
the persons living in the socially excluded localities and the individual persons
endangered by social exclusion.
The areas of support: Habitation, solving of debts and executions, social financial
benefits in the state of a material emergency, housekeeping and hygiene, job
market, education, school affairs, results of criminal activities.
The goal of the “Prison program” is to reduce the social risk of relapse in people
leaving prison and their successful integration into the society. To its target group
belong also the family members of these people. The program was created as a
prevention of socially pathological phenomena as well. It belongs to the field
social services. The field social workers support in their clients the deepening of
their self-reflection and the conscience of their own responsibility for the
solution(s) of their life situation(s).
An increased attention must be paid to the clients around the time when they are
about to leave the prison. Social worker helps them to find accommodation and
job, to get in touch with social services givers, to ensure for them civil clothes etc.
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TYFLO VYSOČINA JIHLAVA O.P.S.
Havlíčkova 38, 586 01 Jihlava
www.tyflovysocina.cz
Contact person: Pavel Hegner
ABOUT US
Tyflo Vysočina (The Tyflo Highland) is a generally useful society, who has been
providing since 2002 different services and hobby activities for unseeing and dimsighted citizens in the whole Czech Republic, but especially in the county of
Vysočina (Highlands).The main goals of these services are to reduce the negative
limitations caused by the sight damage and to integrate the citizens with sight
handicaps into the society. Our instructors and assistants are working with their
clients either directly in their homes, or in the seat of the Tyflo Vysočina, in
Havlíčkova street No.38 in the city of Jihlava, where our clients may dispose of a
classroom with PCs, a workshop for knitting baskets, weaving and making
ceramics,a small training kitchen, and a club room. We are teaching and
enlarging skills of the people with sight handicaps in the whole width of the
practical life.
The essence of our project is to reduce the negative limitations caused by the
sight damage, to re-integrate people with such a damage into the social and
working process through gaining needed skills in using compensational requisites
and to achieve this way the highest possible integration of the people with sight
damage. The goal is to gain skilled instructors, increase the expert education of
the employees, to give a job for volunteers (some of them are having impaired
sight as well) and to ensure for the clients a personal experience of a more
meaningful use of time.
The unemployment reducing is a service, within whose framework we provide:
Legal-social counselling service, aid in a negotiation with the authorities,
searching for suitable compensational requisites, help with their purchase and
gaining contribution for these requisites, help with receiving a ZTP or a ZTP/P
certificate (especially physically disabled person, especially physically disabled
person who needs a guide), help with the job searching.
To our other projects belongs also:
a)Teaching of Braille´s script, reading through touching, training of a
signature, self-service teaching (cooking and the household care), teaching
of the space orientation (training of usual routes and of walking with cane),
canistherapy, psycho-rehabilitation.
b) Self-care, attending to the client´s personal affairs, help in the personal
hygiene, food preparation and household running, education of the client,
contacts with society, field social care.
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c)Accompaniment to a physician, to the authorities, for some trips, cultural
and sport activities, social action, reading services
d) Aid in favour of the client´s touching sensitivity and fine motorical
development, working with ceramic clay, making pots on the potter´s wheel,
modelling, making wicker hand-made products, sewing, knitting.
e) teaching work on PCs with a vocal output, working with telephone with a
vocal output, training in using of compensational requisites, sport activitiesbowling, chess, light athletics, outdoor trips and re-conditional stays.
f) In the centre of daily services we ensure an aid during the client´s personal
hygiene, food providing, help during eating, creative working, visits of
theatres and concerts, lectures and meetings in the framework of different
social activities.
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ROZKOŠ BEZ RIZIKA
Vlhká 10, 602 00 Brno
www.rozkosbezrizika.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Tereza Gorgoňová
ABOUT US
The civic association Delight without risk (Rozkoš bez rizika,R-R) was founded on
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April the 10 , 1992, from the initiative of Ms. Hana Malinová, PhD. Approximately
a year later was in the city of Brno established a small office (carrying on a
counselling phone line) and at the same time also a street-worker working team,
which regularly twice monthly walked round the Brno night clubs and the Prague
street sexual workers. In 1995 was established a counselling centre in
Prague.Since 1998 the association began to carry on a mobile examining unit,
with whose aid became the health service accessible for much larger and more
endangered spectrum of the female clients. In 2005 the association enlarged its
service and managed to open a counselling centre in the centre of Brno, similarly
or even better equipped and, of course, more modern than the Prague centre.
The mission of this association is to reduce the social and health risk afflicting the
women working in sexual business in Czech Republic. The goal of the civic
association “Delight without Risk” (further only “R-R”) is to diminish the recurrence
of sexual illnesses and to prevent HIV/AIDS and to reduce the negative social
consequences connected with performing prostitution as well.
The association is going to achieve this goal through:
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counselling and educational activities (distribution of the information and
of preventive means, psycho-social counselling).
rendering social services connected with:
a) harmonisation of their working and personal life, prevention of
social exclusion
b)abandoning prostitution and integration into the society.
Health service is being provided in the ordinations in Brno and Prague and in the
mobile ambulance. The organisation also struggles to put across the rights of the
sexual workers in the society´s legal and social system.
The social expert counselling is gratis. We offer to everybody who comes in the
basic social counselling (needed information and contacts). The service may be
also anonymous. The client chooses herself which services she´s going to use. It
is the client who is having the last word. And the social workers respect their
decisions.
The purpose of this counselling is to help people in an unfavourable situation,
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including the possibility that the clients may abandon their work in the sexual
business. The organisation is doing its best to meet the clients´ needs and to help
them in the areas which they can manage only with difficulties. (Here is the goal
for the clients to solve these problems independently).
The social workers are motivating their clients to change their job and helping
them with their CVs. They also enforce their self-evaluation. The clients may
dispose the PCs and internet for searching for jobs.
The range of this organization is nationwide. The field teams are visiting the sites
with a sexual service offer and contacting there their clients. The social and health
workers are passing to their clients the preventive means against violence and for
safe sex, making quick tests for HIV and syphilis, providing social counselling and
recommending their clients to visit the centres in Brno or in Prague.
There is a theatre ensemble named Rozkoš(=Delight),about whom is being said:
”The theatre is like a substitutional drug” and whose actors-members are the
clients themselves together with the social workers and with the supporters of the
organisation. The ensemble is being regularly onstage during the international
seminar “AIDS, drugs and us” in the city of Pardubice.
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CENTRUM VOLNÉHO ČASU PRAHA 9
Lovosická 610/21, 190 00 Praha 9
Tel.: +420 286 581 591, 604 298 492 email: nevosadova@cvcpraha 9.cz
www.cvcpraha9.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Radka Nevosadová
ABOUT US
The founders of this civic
association were missing in
Prague 9 on the housing
estate Prosek activities for
youth
and/or
some
facility,offering
free-time
programs both for youth and
adults. So the association
offered since 2005 activities
for children and youth, like
“The children´s day” and “The
Prosek bivouacking”.
In 2006 was ceremonially
opened the building and
grounds in the area of the
High industrial school on Prosek. Thanks to the Prague magistrate was the whole
area reconstructed and our civic association began to use it as a lessee. There
were being made workshops for instance about the internet presentation in the
non-profit sector, about mobbing and about the possibilities of family conflicts
solving. Since 2006 till 2008 there was a language competition “In a nice Czech”
whose participants were the high schools students from Prague. Since the
autumn 2006 began working
the family club “Andersen”,
who offered to the children of
all
age
categories
the
possibility to come and to
spend time in a collective of
children. The club organized
also some unrepeated actions
and thematic afternoons, like
All
Souls
(=Halloween),
St.Nicholas, Easter creations,
Christmas
sitting,
sport
afternoons etc. In 2007 there
were made workshops for
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teachers about the communicative disorders in younger children and about the
education of autistic children. There were also other activities, educational
counselling or logopaedics. With the support of Czech Ministry of Schools there
was being taught Czech for foreigners. Several language- and PC courses were
using mainly the parents, because to these courses was offered the possibility of
babies-sitting. Similarly was being used the internet as well. Very popular has
always been the conditional exercises for women, mostly the novelty-the Pilates.
A multifunctional sports ground with an oval for runners has been always a part of
the offer for the visitors (the adults had to pay a fee). In 2008 became the Centre
a functional Community Centre. With the support of the Czech Ministry of Work
and Social Affairs was made the project ”Back to the World”, aimed at the
education of persons on the parental holidays and at the persons endangered by
social exclusion and diminished price on the job market. There was a lot of
unrepeated community activities and since 2009 have been established new
circles for children.
The most important of our
projects was the project “Back to
the world”. There were specific
language courses, PC courses
and
courses
of
personal
development,
moreover
the
psycho-hygiene and working
integration. Among the language
courses was the most preferred
the English one. We offered
baby-sitting to all courses and
programs to enable the mothers
to attend and to increase their
concurrence ability on the job
market. We help the social integration not only of young mothers, but also of
retired seniors. Baby sitting enables mothers to accept part-time jobs.
Our centre provides services for
the children from the age of 2
years. There is English for
mothers with children, singing or
painting
groups,
individual
tutorials, aerobic or pilates. The
project “Handy little fellows” was
supported
by
the
Prague
Magistrate. The goal of this
project is leading the children
towards the purposeful and
meaningful spending of free time,
with sport activities as an
important supplement. It is also
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an important way how to prevent in the children later unacceptable social
behaviour (mostly drug abuse and other criminal activities).
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KOALICE NEVLÁDEK PARDUBICKA, O. S.
Komenského 432, 530 03 Pardubice
Tel.: +420 461 031 821 email: [email protected]; [email protected]
www.konep.cz; www.nevladky.cz
Contact person: Bc. Jana Machová
ABOUT US
The NGOs coalition of the Pardubice county (Koalice nevládek Pardubicka,
KONEP) is an open society of the non-profit organizations, acting in the
Pardubice county. The long-time goal of that coalition is to support mutual
cooperation, exchange of experiences and to help in development of the nonprofit organizations. The coalition came into existence in 1998, as an independent
one functionates since 2004. The coalition is being supported by the Pardubice
county and by the European Union.
In 1998 gathered together several non-profit organisations, which were having
their own histories, and founded an informal group of non-profit NGOs in the
Pardubice region. The reason of the association was the need to improve the
situation of NGOs and to enforce the prestige of the non-profit sector as a whole.
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On the end of 1999 was held the 1 regional conference of the non-profit NGOs in
the Pardubice region. In 2003 expressed the Pardubice county its support to the
origin of an informative service centre for the NGOs.
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The NGOs coalition arose on October the 18 2004 from the hitherto 10
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individual NGOs. Since November the 28 ,2007, is for them being opened a
permanent counselling office. The office is providing for the NGOs an accounting,
economical and tax counselling, including the advices which concern the drawing
off the donations from the EU foundations.
The project “Parental holidays- a period of growth” is aiming at the education of
parents in the Pardubice county, and at their return to the job market after parental
holidays. Its purpose is to help especially the young mothers with babies to return
into the job market without problems. The project is aiming at the area of
activation, education and involving the target group into the activities in maternal
and parental centres.
The project is needed, because- as it was verified in the research with 175
respondents- the parents, caring for a baby, are getting themselves into a social
isolation, losing contacts with their profession(s) and their situation within the job
market is impaired. The main parents´ need in that situation is:
• to activate themselves, to increase self-confidence
• to engage themselves in some meaningful activities
• to keep the professional skills
• to keep and to develop “the soft skills” (communicative, organisational)
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The project is going to fulfil these needs through:
•
•
•
creating 1 activation-educational course “Parents into work” with training
of 80 persons
creating 1 educational system “The model positions” and its pilot
introducing in 3 partners and training of 17
ensuring baby-sitting during these educational activities
The purpose of the centres´ program is to enable mothers with babies to get out
of isolation into which they got through their all-day caring for the babies, and to
support them this way in their return to the job market.
The main goals of this project are to re-socialize the parents on the parental
holidays and to establish and enlarge the cooperation within the network and with
the self-governments. To the goals belongs also to increase the interest of the
self-governments in the families support.
COMMUNEM REDDERE (BRINGING BACK THE SOLIDARITY)
This project is aimed at the transfer of know-how and of the examples of a good
practice of creating the true partnership among the individual non-profit NGOs.
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CHARITA OSTRAVA
Kořenského 17, 703 00 Ostrava - Vítkovice
www.ostrava.caritas.cz
Contact person: Bc. Martin Pražák, Dis
ABOUT US
The (Catholic) Charity of the city of Ostrava is a registered legal person with an
independent legal subjectivity. It came into existence in 1991. On the very
beginning it was being realized on a voluntary basis and preferred the
humanitarian activities, targeted at the aid to the refugees from abroad. But as
early as since 1992 was its main orientation changed and the aid was re-aimed
mainly at the following three target groups: the persons, endangered by a social
exclusion (including homeless persons), seniors and physically handicapped
people. Since 2004 was the spectrum enlarged by the psychically handicapped
persons and since 2005 by the people in the terminal stage of life. The Charity in
the Ostrava region has two centres and provides contemporarily 19 kinds of
social services, 2 kinds of hospice services and leads two volunteering centres.
The activities are being assured by 242 permanent employees and 100
volunteers. The Charity Ostrava belongs to the Ostravian-Opavian diecese.
THE PARENTAL CENTRE KLUBÍČKO (“A SMALL BALL OF THREAD”)
The goal of this centre is to help the parents, caring for the children in pre-school
age, to return to the job market. We realized that the parents during
maternal/parental holidays do have the need of education in order to prepare
themselves for the return to their job(s). Our target groups are the low-skilled
women with basic education, the unemployed women, the women with small
children, the man, caring for children and the parents- self-bread-winners. This
group is very endangered and is having only little chance to re-gain their
job(s).These people are the clients of the parental centre “Klubíčko”, in which the
project will be being realized.There will be also the courses for gaining higher selfesteem, mutual support of families with babies and a gratis baby-sitting during the
courses will be being provided as well.
The project “A WAY TOWARDS HOME”(CESTA K DOMOVU) contents the reconstruction and modernization of St. Francis Charity House for the homeless
people. Modernization enables better using of the house´s facilities and the goal
is to minimalize their dependence on the social aid.
The project “DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES” (ROZVOJ
KOMUNITNÍCH SLUŽEB) was determined for people with specific needs, living
in the area of a rehabilitation treatment centre. There arose a protected
workplace, in whose framework found their job 10 physically disabled people.
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The goal of the project “The way out of hopelessness” (Cesta z beznaděje) was a
complex integration including counselling for the socially excluded peopledistressed unmarried mothers and homeless people. Within the project´s
framework were provided services for 1674 people and 11 197 consultations were
given.
The Ostrava Charity realizes the following three main programs of aid:
a)The complex program of an aid to partly or completely immobile seniors
in the centre Tereza in Charity home of St.Elisabeth
b)The complex program of an aid to people in crisis situations- for instance
the Charity centre of counselling and social services or the Charity home of
St.Zdislava for mothers in distress. A part of this program is the social
rehabilitation as well.
c)The program of an aid to people in the terminal stage of life, including
the Mobile hospice unit. This service is being practised by schooled
volunteers.
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O.S. ČLOVĚK ZPĚT K ČLOVĚKU
Samopše 15, 285 06 Sázava
www.ddpsamopse.cz
Contact person: Ing. Blanka Stárková
ABOUT US
The civic association A Human back to Human (Člověk zpět k člověku) was
founded through the registration on the Czech Home Office in 1992. Since 1996
it keeps providing during the whole year social services and a non-resident health
care for the pacients suffering from the Alzheimer disease. The place of living of
these seniors is the village Samopše by the river Sázava. Into the facility which
provides its services to some 45 clients, are coming regularly from the Kutná Hora
region three doctors- a general practitioner, psychiatrist and surgeon. The
organisation employs approximately 40 employees, who are coming from the
villages in the environ where they have not any other job chance.
The House of home care in Sampoše is registered according to the Czech law
No.108/2006 Sb. as a home for seniors with a special regime.
The goal of our other project, called Meeting (Setkávání) is to enable mothers
with babies to use the “Protected water garden”. They can find there 2 small
basins for children and a deeper one for beginning swimmers and swimming
children, a new social facility, showers, dressing rooms and in the case of bad
weather also a tee-pee and a roofed terrace. The part of the garden will be also a
sand-pit for babies,a wooden maze for children or a place for sunbathing for the
adults.
We would like to provide for the mothers with children a good place for mutual
meeting and communication. Except that we would like to support in children a
good relationship with water, the swimming ability and the communication with
other children.
From the technical point of view the water will be being heated through the solar
collectors. We are planning that the whole project will be proceeding in stages
since 2009 till 2011.
To the project belongs also the plan to create there several new working
possibilities- a lifeguard, a cashier, a service man etc.
The civic association gained in 2007 the buildings and estates including the
garden as a gift from the foundation Mariastar Humanity,who was previously the
only owner of these premises.
The project is partly solving the problem of this region, concerning the river
Sázava. Its beaches are full of broken branches and unregulated, the river is
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unclean and the weir in the village needs a general repair. The “Protected water
garden” might, unlike of the river, offer a safe bathing both for youth and for the
young mother with babies. Moreover we may offer also the first aid, because we
might dispose of the nurses and caregivers from the above mentioned home for
seniors, situated nearby.
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BONA, O.P.S.
Pod Čimickým hájem 177/1, 181 00 Praha 8
www.bona-ops.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Aleš Lang, Kateřina Ozimá, DiS., Magdaléna
Štochlová, DiS.
ABOUT US
The generally useful society Bona (in Latin: The good one-the feminine gender)
was founded in 1999 by the BONA foundation and by Mr. Zdeněk Bašný, M.D., at
that time the director of the Psychiatric Hospital in Bohnice, in order to ensure
functioning of the rehabilitation services for mentally ill people in the structure of a
psycho-social net.
Our mission is to re-incorporate the people with a mental illness back into the
society and to improve the quality of their life while preserving their dignified life
conditions through the social services- protected habitation, support of an
independent habitation and social rehabilitation.
Until 2006 was Bona the biggest services-giver in the area of habitation and had
several working places in their own laundry, several cleaning and gardening ones
and also several rehabilitation ones in the textiles- and cabinet-making
workshops.
In 20O6 we opened, thanks to the support of the European social Fund, 4
protected workshops: a glassmaking one, a workshop for the verdure
maintenance, and the Centre of workshop Turkmenská with a candle-making and
textiles workshop. There is also a workshop of the “Sheep granny”, a library and
clubs “The tomcat” and “Job club”.
The candle-making workshop proved unprofitable. When looking for some more
profitable program, we founded a paper-making workshop and joined the textiles
workshop with the “Sheep Granny” workshop.
At present we provide 60 rehabilitation-working places in 4 protected workshops:
a glassmaking one, a paper-making one, a textiles one and the Technical service
(earlier “the verdure maintenance”).
THE SOCIAL REHABILITATION
The social rehabilitation is being provided on 4 protected workplaces:
a)The glass-making workshop (window-panes, glass mosaics, etc.)
b)The paper-making workshop (hand-made paper, paper-made
congratulations, etc.)
c)The technical services (gardening, in winter cleaning up the sidewalks
from snow and spreading of sidewalks with salt and sand)
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d)The textiles workshop (producing clothes and accessories, knitting,
crocheting, embroideries)
Our clients are working in a partial time job and they have both working and
rehabilitation contracts- it means, that they are both being paid and may use the
support of a therapist. They attend also the selling and representative actions- is
has a positive influence both on their self-esteem and on the education of adults
(in the extent of a large public, visiting these actions). Recently we began to
cooperate with an ecological enterprise, recycling the electric waste- it helps us to
be more independent financially.
In the protected habitation the mentally ill people learn the basic social customs
and skills. The therapists are helping them during this process. Moreover, in our
centre on the Žitná street is a shop, selling the products of the handicapped
people. In our socio-therapeutic centre “The Tomcat” we teach our clients English
and German. We are planning also the courses of working with PCs.
We provide our service not only in favour of the mentally ill people. Our library or
“The Tomcat” centre may be visited by anybody. In our club are running, for
instance, interesting popular-educating parties with travellers, projecting photos
from their journeys. The informative-educational centre in the Žitná street serves
not only for our clients, but also for the public.
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OBČANSKÁ PORADNA NYMBURK, O.S.
nám. Přemyslovců 14/11, 288 02 Nymburk
Tel.: +420 325 511 148, 731 588 632 email: [email protected],
[email protected]
www.opnymburk.cz, www.pomocobetem.cz
Contact person: Mgr. Hedvika Stuchlíková, Mgr. Adriena Budinová
ABOUT US
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The civic counselling service Nymburk was founded on June the 18 , 2003. Its
target group are mainly the citizens of Central Bohemia. There are two registered
social works: civic counselling (Občanská poradna) and the intervention centre
(for an aid to victims). Both of these services are being provided both as an outpatient clinic and as the field services. We have our out-patient offices in 5 Czech
cities and we are about to open 3 more ones.
Except the registered social services we are building the interdisciplinary teams
for an aid to people from the Central Bohemia endangered by home violence (in
the framework of the interventional centre). We struggle for the positive solutions
of public affairs and contribute to the civic society development.
We keep trying to fulfil our mission by organizing seminars, schoolings, popular
education parties and other educative actions , aimed both at the experts and the
laymen/wide public, and also for the children, teachers and seniors.
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Since June the 7 , 2004, we are the members of Czech Civic Counselling
Association. We are also the members of the Coalition of Organisations Against
Home Violence. Our main goals are both counselling and the practical help to the
citizens in some hard life situations which they are unable to solve with their own
power. We are struggling in favour of the citizens not to suffer from their ignorance
of the law. We point out the state authorities to the fact that there are failures of
the legislation and unsolved problems of the citizens. Our basic principles are
being free of charge, objectivity, independence and intimacy (we must keep
silence about the clients´ information and moreover the clients posses the right to
be anonymous,if needed).
Our contribute to the unemployment reduction is an expert social counselling
which is- mainly in the cases of the unemployed or of the people endangered by
the unemployment- primarily aimed at the return to the job market or at keeping
in there.
We may provide also the direct support through the negotiations with the
employers or by accompanying our clients to these negotiations. We may help the
clients actively in their searching for job(s), and, if needed, to create their CVs,
etc.
We are organizing educational meetings and lectures for the persons endangered
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by the unemployment or directly for the unemployed, including the lectures in
prison shortly before the ending of the client´s punishment. Our target group are,
of course, also the mothers on maternal vacations, who need to return into their
job(s).
Our clients have a gratis access to the internet directly in our counselling office in
order to search for the job offers. If there are unable to deal with PC and/or
internet, there is a specialized computer expert-counsellor,who helps there and
explains them the basic computing principles, what means that the clients are at
the same time being taught the new needed skills-the work with PC and internet.
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NÁBOŽENSKÁ OBEC CÍRKVE ČS. HUSITSKÉ V ŘÍČANECH
17. listopadu 252/43, 251 01 Říčany
Tel.: +420 323 602 875, +420 732 192 872 email: [email protected]
www.ricany-ccsh.cz
Contact person: Ing. Ilja Procházka
ABOUT US
The Czechoslovak Church split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1920 as a
result of historical development that culminated in World War I and in the following
disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy which the Roman Catholic Church was
closely politically linked with.
The Czechoslovak Hussite Church consists of Christians who strive to fulfil the
current efforts of morals and scientific knowledge with the Spirit of Christ as we
have preserved it in the Scripture and in the administration of old Christians, and
as it was certified by the Hussite movement, the Bohemian Brethren, and by
further reformists' effort.
The Church is reformist, undogmatical, liturgical; the principle is freedom of
conscience in the perspective of the Spirit of Christ.
The head of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church is the Patriarch and the Central
Council.At the diocesan level, the representative is the bishop who administers
the diocese together with the Diocesan Council. The corps is headed by the
pastor or the administrator and by the Council of Elders. Thus the clergy and the
laity are equally represented at each level of government. The highest authority of
the Church is the Assembly composed of lay people and the clergy.
The Czechoslovak Church, since 1971 The Czechoslovak Hussite Church,
consists of particular religious communities which have legal personality and
together they represent the whole Church.
Because the service for the needed is the hallmark of the Christian Church since
its beginning, the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church provided care for ill and elderly
people and also for people in need through the so-called social service corps
which worked directly in specific religious communities.
Morover, Dr.K. Farský Children's Home was founded in Jílové (1937), care for the
poor in Uhlířské Janovice (1943), children's sanatorium in Moravia (1945). In
1942, nursing and health services in families were established (OZSR), etc.
In 1949, the church operated 175 service corps, 30 OZSR, 4 social institutions.
On June 30th 1950, these activities came to an end. Without any help and
influence of the Church, socialist state wanted to take care of people itself
After 1990, the Church began to re-build and operate such facilities. Its social
program is available for all people regardless of religion. Facilities operated by
Diakonia and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church Mission:
Domov „U Spasitele“, Frýdlant in Bohemia, care for elderly and handicapped
persons
Penzion Horizont, Prague 6, the retirement home
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Domeček, Trhové Sviny, the day-care center for children and youth with
disabilities
Nazaret, Borovany, sheltered workshops
Trango, Zábřeh Moravia, the halfway house
Strom Naděje, Trutnov, the center for persons with disabilities
Centrum volného času Hláska, Roudnice, leisure center for children and youth
Bethanie, Brno, Christian aid center
Psyché, Prague 7, psycho-educational counselling
Other activities take place in religious communities.
Easy Admission Center for Youth and Children
The general objective of our project is the integration of people from target groups
into society.
The specific objective is to obtain the necessary and social skills, support in
difficult or emergency situations, reduction of social risks arising from high-risk
behavior and social situations of conflict.
The target group: disorganized children and youth up to 26 years, which are
threatened with social exclusion because of social and partially health causes,
and who are unable or unwilling to engage in normal activities of children and
youth organizations. Above all, they are children and young people growing up or
grown up in orphanages, substitute families, in families with an incidence of social
pathology, in families with very low income and single-parent families, and
children and young people with specific educational or training problems. The
only admission requirement is not to hamper or endanger one’s peers and the
adult staff at the Center. Most clients are neither believers nor members of our
Church. The Center is available also to children and young people from troublefree families; their number does not exceed 30%. The operation of the Center is
yearlong. Participation in activities is essentially voluntary; the clients have wide
opportunities to initiate activities themselves.
The Yearlong Easy Admission Circle
It provides clients with a wide possibility of recreational and informal educational
activities, but also the opportunity to "just come" to talk or get advice, catch up on
the school matter or organize your own event. Basically anything is possible if it is
not against the law and if the funds are sufficient. There are computers with the
Internet access, a clubroom, a large lounge and small workshops suitable for
modeling or other creative work. The Center is open on weekdays in the
afternoon, at weekends and on holidays it is possible to participate in multi-day
events (including international ones) prepared by the Centre. The program also
offers structured activities to older children (10-15), adolescents (16-18) and
young adults (19-25). Anyone (in the appropriate age) may join the activities of
the Centre regardless of social and family circumstances.
A novelty in the supply of leisure activities is the Easy Admission Modeler Circle
since 2007. The main objective of this project is to allow the target group to
engage in leisure activities which otherwise would be unavailable for them for
various reasons (lack of their parents’ interest, lack of funds, etc.).
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Social Counselling
We provide it in our congregational home in Říčany; we also can accompany the
client to another location (for example, negotiation at an office). In case of a
complex problem we are able, through our partnership with many NGOs, to
mediate a specialist’s advice (lawyer, clinical psychologist, etc.) to the client.
The Halfway House
It is a small family-type suitable for maximum of 6 young people aged from18 to
26 years who have neither a place to stay nor anyone who might provide them
with assistance. In addition to accommodation with sanitation facilities, food and
other basic living needs, our clients find a wide choice of leisure activities and
support for studies or in a search for a job.
Informal educational projects for socially disadvantaged young people
In addition to the regular activities of the Centre, we realize or support other
informal educational projects for children and youth. One of these projects was
the project "Říčany club for young Europeans together against the social exclusion of
disadvantaged young people" - an international
project of an informal group of young people under
the leadership of Ondřej Tuša. Our religious
community provided this project with the
organizational, personal, material and financial
support.
The main objective of this project was the
participants’ personal development so that they, in
their adult life, could fully integrate into society and
could be for its benefit. In total 27 young people
from Ukraine, Estonia, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic were involved in this project which lasted
for one year in the form of weekend and holiday
meetings.
Activities were designed as follows:
- 1 / 3 was focused on education, mainly informal,
with a focus on information technology,
communication, language and social skills and
knowledge, and learning about history, culture and
landscape of the Czech Republic.
- 1 / 3 of the time was devoted to helping others NGOs, with the emphasis on helping disadvantaged
young people.
- 1 / 3 of the time was devoted to social events and relaxation with the emphasis
on mutual understanding among young people.
The project was open; anyone who was seriously interested and met the design
criteria could participate.
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Project description,
organizations visited
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The list of organizations
Project description
Effeta - středisko Sv. Františka Saleského v Nitre
SINA Nitra, n.o.
Mateřské centrum Klokanček
Centrum slniečko, n. o.
Diecézní Charita Nitra
Vydra
Čiernohorská železnica
Misericordia, n. o.
Komunitné centrum n.o.
Tartu Katoliku Kool (Katolická škola v Tartu)
Maarja Küla
MTÜ TARTU KRISTLIK NOORTEKODU (Dětský domov v Tartu)
Tartu Emajöe Kool (Škola pro nevidomé v Tartu)
Welfare Service of Seniors and Disabled Persons (Sociální
zařízení pro seniory a mentálně handicapované)
School in Tallinn (Škola v Tallinnu)
Fryshuset
Margretelund SIS
Sockerbruket
Gymnázium De La Gardie
Freja
Sunt Liv
Vara Folk High School
Policejní oddělení Böras - práce s kriminalitou mládeže
SISU - Idrottsutbildarna
Elfesberg
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THEMATIC STUDY VISIT FOR NGOˇS
The Czech name of the project: Tématická studijní cesta pro neziskové
organizace
The English name of the project: Thematic study visit for NGOs
The data of realization: June the 1st,2009- May the 31st,2010
The number of the project:CZ.1.04/5.1.01/12.00028
The basic target of this project is strenghtening of the NGOs´ capacities in order
to be able to realize sucessfully the projects leading towards the unemployment
reduction in Czech Republic, mainly the unemployment of the persons
disadvantaged on the job market and the development of both international and
regional partnerships.
The project is being realized in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia and Sweden.
The primary target groups are the NGOs in Prague, Middle Bohemia (with an
overlap into the neighbouring regions) in the Pardubice region and in the
Vysočina (=Bohemian-Moravian Highland) region, who are realizing programs
reducing the unemployment in Czech Republic and contributing to the social
integration of the physically and socially disadvantaged persons into the society
and mainly to the reduction of the unemployment of the disadvantaged persons.
The key activity of this project is a study visit for 30 NGOs- more exactly, for 40
members of the NGOs from the above mentioned localities. The concrete
specialized program is prepared together with the partners from abroad. The
study visit will be carried out after the selection of its individual participants. This
fact will enable to fit the study program both to the Czech organizations and to the
organizations from abroad. In each visited country are tipped some specific traits
which are in some way connected with creating of capable and stable NGOs and
where an interest in the experience exchange can be found on both sides. There
was an intention to have chosen quite different partners from abroad, both as to
the locality and as to the specificity of their problems,what will ensure a large offer
of the experience exchange(s) in the area of managing and creating NGOs and
in the area of working with the target group as well.
As to the form is the study visit drawn up as a combination of visitations with the
examples of a good practice and workshops in the concrete town. Its target is to
share the accesses and experiences and mainly to tie up concrete partnerships
for the future international projects.
A great attention is devoted also to the propagation of the project. Its output is
going to be- beside others- a large textual and photographical documentation.
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NITRA
Nitra (in German Neutra, in
Hungarian Nyitra) is a Slovak city,
a managerial city of the Nitra
region. It is situated on the south
of the country, by the river of the
same name and it is having 86
000 inhabitants.
HISTORY
Region
Ponitrie
Mayor
Jozef Dvonč
Area
Number of
inhabitants
Density of
population
108 km²
83 265
771/km2
The beginnings of its settlement
are reaching down to the primeval times, as are proving the numerous
archeological sites on the city´s territory.. As early as 30 000 years ago was the
territory densely settled. The settlements of the first agricultural inhabitants were
on the contemporary city´s territory as early as almost 6 000 years ago. In the 4th
century B.C. were on our territory for a longer time being settled the Celts, handy
smelters and blacksmiths, whose huts and work shops were found under the
Martinský hill. The traces from the Dacs (the ancestors of contemporary
Rumanians) were found here as well. The Slovak history of Nitra begins since
the end of the 5th century, when the first Slavs were coming into its territory. As
early as in the 1st half of the 7th century are the Western sources mentioning a
state formation of the Slavs, the Samo´s empire. The Samo´s empire was some
kind of predecessor of another state formation – The Great Moravia, one of
whose centres was situated in Nitra. And just in the time of the Great Moravia
Empire were founded the basises of celebration of the ancient Christian Nitra in
songs, documented by the extraordinarily rare written memorables from the 9th
century. About the state of settlement and the prominence of Nitra during that
time period speak in an eloquent way a mighty Slavic fortified settlements- on
Tržiště, another one on the Martin Hill under the Zobor, the third on Borio and the
fourth one on Lupky. On some of these fortified settlements might have lived the
duke Pribina, in whose era was Nitra an important political, military and
economical centre. Pribina proved a great statesmanlike wisdom and knowledge
of the European policy, when in the years 829-833, although a pagan himself,
ordered to consecrate a Christian church in Nitra.. The church was consecrated
by the archbishop Adalram from Salzburg, Austria. The Pribina´s church is the
first historically documented proof of Christianity among the Slavs on the territory
of contemporary Slovakia.
During the further development was the Nitranian principality in a violent way
united by the duke Mojmír to the Moravian Empire(around .833) and thereafter
was created an united state, mentioned in the historical sources as the Great
Moravia. After unthroning Mojmír became Rastislav the ruler of the Great
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Moravia. With his reign is connected a significant event, the arrival of the
Byzantian missionaries, the brothers Konstantin - Cyril a Method. In
863.
Konstantin - Cyril created the first Slavic writing called „hlaholice“. He also
translated the first liturgical texts into the ancient Old Church Slavonic language.
On the top of its glory was Nitra in the time of reigning of the king Svatopluk. In
one of the most precious written documents for the Slovak history, the letter from
the Pope John VIII. to Svatopluk from the year 880, called „Industriae tuae“ is
Svätopluk being addressed as the king and the pope announces him that he
appointed the priest named Viching as the bishop in Nitra. Nitra was probably
having as early as at that time a character of a city and it consisted from five f
ortified settlements and more than twenty housing estates with developed
handicrafts.
Nitra remained a seat town of the frontier principality of the forming Hungarian
kingdom as long as until the beginning of the 14th century.. Even during the
medieval age it was a scene of some significant historical events and frequently
it was devastated by the different armies. In 1248 the Hungarian King Belo IV,
because of his gratitude for the city´s salvation against the Tatars raised Nitra to
the free royal city with the similar privileges like had the Hungarian city
Szekesfehervar. But Nitra didn´t enjoy these privileges for a long time, because
as early as 40 years later the king Ladislav IV gave it altogether with all its
accessories to the bishopric.. The change of Nitra from the royal city to the
landlord city had its far – flung results. The city fell down into the lower law
category.
The medieval Nitra was divided into the Upper and Lower Town. The latter one
was further divided into several independent city quarters with their own mayors
and municipal seals.. There arose four independent parishes by the churches of
St.Michael on Tržiště (Market Place), St. Jakub (James) on the square, St.
Stephan on the Párovce and Mother of God on the Calvary. Since the half of the
18th century was Nitra spared from the military hardships, what enabled the
renewal of the town and improvements of the castle, especially of the cathedral.
A significant intervention into the building development of the Lower Town was
the construction of the Župní dům (Regional House) on the town´s border with the
Upper Town.
As a result of the building development the number of inhabitants in the 19th
century exceeded 10 thousands and the conduct became more complicated.. In
1873 Nitra became a city with a magistrate, led by a mayor and with numerous
municipal board of representatives. The further development of the city was
strongly afflicted by two world wars.. In the new Czechoslovakia Nitra became a
seat of the region.. After the second world war came a period of a stormy building
development, but during this time were on the other hand destroyed a lot of
ancient memorable buildings. But Nitra still gained a lot of schools, scientific and
cultural institutions and became a centre of the Slovak agricultural schooling,
science and production.. Nitra is the centre of the whole region and there can be
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found a lot of important institutions, like for instance the Slovak Agricultural
University of the Philosopher Konstantin, Slovak Agricultural Museum, different
research institutes and the exposition area called Agrokomplex..There is being
represented a lot of industrial branches, but most of all the food industry, mainly
thanks to the agricultural character of the environs.
MEMORABLE BUILDINGS
•
The villa of Dr. Verö – An architectonically valuable object.. It is a twostoreyed puristical house, constructed from the two wings, opened into
the corner garden.. A specifical trait of this house is a large living terrace
on the floor, with which were connected the bedrooms of the individual
family members. Thanks to this attribute the building became a
prototype of the later terrace houses. The project was realized in 1927.
The building was on the beginning of the 90´s of the 20.th century
demolished and substituted by a replica.
•
The Great Provost Palace – was built after an impulse from the side of
the (Austro-Hungarian) Empress Maria Terezia in the years 1779 and
1780 on the project of Franz A. Hillebrandt as a two-storeyed rocococlassicist building with an attic roof. On the balustrade was formerly
placed two hundred centimeters high riding statue of the Empress as a
patroness of the Great Provostship. During the bombing of the town in
1945 was the building considerably damaged. After the second world
war was the building partially renewed, but preserved in the or igi nal
form is only the middle part of the ground floor.
•
The market building – The building was built up in 1890 on the project
of J. Lyka for the needs of placing of the 60 th battalion of the Nitra´s
.homeguards. At the time of its building this object became a standard of
type of similar buildings in Hungary (at that time Hungary included also
the territory of contemporary Slovakia)
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EFFETA - STŘEDISKO SV. FRANTIŠKA SALESKÉHO V NITRE
Sámova 4, 949 01 Nitra
www.effeta.sk
Contact person: Anna Šmehilová
ABOUT US
The activity of the organization Effeta began as early as in 1994 by its first
informal contacts with auditorily disabled people through the mediation of its
founder Mrs. Anna Šmehilová, in whom was born the idea of the whole project
and of the content of the organization. Since 1996 Effeta acted as a branch of the
civic association ´Kresťanské centrum nepočujúcich Slovenska´ (KCNS- The
Christian centre of the auditorily disabled people in Slovakia). In 2001 the Effeta
became independent because of extending its activities and profiled itself under
its contemporary name.
The organization Effeta is dealing with the auditorily disabled people.It is an
integrative- educative centre, working socially with this group. They are mainly
interested in 4 areas: cultural actions, social services,, education and the project
called „protected workshops“ During the regular cultural actions, like,for instance,
the International festival of culture of the auditorily disabled people,are being
presented the works of the auditorily disabled people. For their creative
activities are serving the rooms in the centre, where these people can dispose
both of the workshop and of the printery, where can be the products of the
auditorily disabled people also being sold in a new shopping room. This activity
not only naturally diminishes the unemployment of the auditorily disabled people,
but also provides them a possibility of integration into the working process.The
profits, gained from this shop and printery, are transferred to the education of
children. Another activity of the Effeta centre are the courses of sign language,
education and teaching of foreign languages in a written form .
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SINA NITRA, N.O.
Nedbalova 540/17, 949 01 Nitra
www.hovoriaciweb.sk
Contact person: Mgr. Erika Šodorová
ABOUT US
The organization was
founded in 2006 by the
Union of unseeing and
weak-sighted people in
Slovakia as a practical
component
of
this
union.Their goal is to
associate the unseeing
and
weak-sighted
people and to organize
with
them
different
activities and programs.
The NGO SINA Nitra is
a part of a nation-wide
organization and there
is in Slovakia eight such
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centers like the SINA in the city of Nitra.
To the most frequent activities organized by the SINA belongs a working group of
handiwork. Except that the SINA organizes also the cultural evenings and
seminars. The cultural evenings are ensured by a music band of the unseeing
people called RADOST (the joy), who are appearing with their program for
instance in the hospitals. In 2009 organized the SINA Nitra 55 actions. To one of
SINA´s another projects belongs for instance the collecting of lids from the PET
bottles, which from the SINA Nitra buys a local firm. The SINA is every months
editing a monthly magazine called OČKO (The Little Eye) for the unseeing and
weak –sighted citizens of the Nitra region.
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MATEŘSKÉ CENTRUM KLOKANČEK
Nedbalova 540/17, 949 01 Nitra
www.mcklokancek.sk
Contact person: Ing. Daniela Koňečná
ABOUT US
The
organization
Maternal
Centre
(Materské
centrum)
Klokanček (The Little
Kangaroo) has been
functioning since 2002.
The
centre
is since
February 2010 situated in
new rooms in the Nedbal
street on a busy housing
estate named Klokočina
in the city of Nitra. The
rooms, in which the
centre is seated, are
being
given from the
side
of
the
City
completely
gratis,
including (non )payment for the
energies. The goal of this centre is
to associate mothers with children
who are having here not only the
possibility
to
share
their
experiences, but at the same time
they can also arrange some
different free-time activities. They
are being arranged also under the
leadership of the members of the
centre Klokanček for lonely
mothers with children..Both the
volunteers and the leadership of
the centre are regularly arranging
some musical or painting groups, where is always presumed the activi ty of the
mothers themselves. At present has Klokanček 7 active mothers, but the group is
more frequently having as much as 20 feminine participants..
The Community work
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The Matenal centre Klokanček arranges collective bonfires with roasting
sausages for the families with children, especially for these who have little or no
possibilities to hike in the nature. This mass actions would have attendance as
much as 10 families and the parents themselves thereafter used to continue in
these activities and they are becoming the active members of the centre as well.
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CENTRUM SLNIEČKO, N. O.
P.O. BOX 17 F, 949 01 Nitra
www.centrumslniecko.sk
Contact person: Mariana Kováčová
ABOUT US
The NG organization Ćentrum Slniečko´ (centre ´The Little Sun´) arose in 1992
by gaining an object. In 1998 was opened in Slovakia the first crisis centre for
mothers with children. The target group of the whole organization are maltreated
and misused victims of home violence. At present the centre Slniečko runs an
asylum home for mothers with children(the object has a capacity of 12 people, the
duration of stay is maximally 6 months). After six months is possible to enter the
house „Na půl cesty“(„On a halfway“), which is also in the custody of this
organization. Another object is a home for children which at present time , when a
new law about the professional family care is valid in Slovakia, supplies a family.
The centre Slniečko provides law, psychological and social problems counselling.
Since 1996 they provide also a telephone line of trust for children..
The goal of the organization is to provide a complex care for the home violence
victims. Their judgment is adjusted to the low threshold.:
• A concrete aid in a crisis situation
• Counselling
• Re-integration back to the society
I AM LOOKING FOR A FAMILY
It is an unique campaign of the organization, aimed at informing the public about
the possibilities how to help children and families in crisis situations and at
gaining the new potential fosterparents or stepparents. The organization aspires
to gain as many people showing interest in a substitute family for the children
without parents as possible.
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DIECÉZNÍ CHARITA NITRA
Samova ul.594, 950 50 Nitra
Tel.:+ 421 903 447 577
Contact person: Mgr. Ing. Juraj Barát
ABOUT US
The following data are taken from the annual news of the Diocesan Charity
Nitra.We got acquainted both with its history and with its contemporary activity
thanks to i ts Director, Mgr. Ing. Mr. Juraj B a r á t. Thereafter we personally
visited the Charity Home of St . Luise for children in Nitra and the Hospice – the
House of Peace and Reconciliation, named by the St.Bernadette..
The Diocesan Charity Nitra is an independent juridical personality,deriving
its juridical subjectivity from the Roman-Catholic Church.Its basic mission is to
provide services for poor people,ill people and for the people in emergency.
Together with other Slovak charities it creates the confederation- the Slovak
Catholic Charity.
The Diocesan Charity Nitra is in the sense of the § 74 of the law No. 195/1998
Digest of Law about the social aid in the version of the later regulations written
down as a NGO subject into the
register of the juridical and physical
personalities, providing social services under the registration number 10 with
validity since July the 1st, 1999.
I.The non- resident services
The Charity´s social centres
The services,provided within the frame of the Charity´s social centres:
1. The Charity Service in the families –the community care service
2. Social counselling and social prevention
3. Other social services visiting transporting
-lending of health aids
spiritual service
-clothes
4. Special activities
AD 1. The Charity Service in the families
The legislative registration the community care service
- The service being provided in the sense of the law No.195/1998, Digest
of Law, about the social aid in the version of the later regulations, § 15
The Community Care service can be being provided in favor of:
- a citizen, who needs because of his/her unfavourable health state an aid of
some other person during the secure of:
1. the unavoidable life activities,
2. the unavoidable works at home or
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3. the contact with his/her environs, provided especially through the safe
conduct,, interpreting of sign language for the non-hearing persons and
through reading.
1. The unavoidable life activities are at first:
a) The usual acts of the personal hygiene including shaving, an aid during
dressing and undressing,aid with transfer to a wheelchair ,to the bed, help
during the use of WC
b) Bathing including hair washing,
c) Bringing of the lunch,import of lunch or another warm meal,aid during eating
and drinking
d) Care and education supplying the natural family environment
e) Supervision
2. The unavoidable works at home are:
a) Bringing of coal, of firewood, carrying out the ash,bringing water, heating
b) Shopping and other unavoidable activities connected with the home running
c) Home works connected with home keeping
d) Preparing and cooking of breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea or dinner
e) Washing of personal clothes, ironing of clothes and of other linen
3. The contact with the environs is being ensured by:
a) An accompany
1. to the medical examination
2. to the bureau dealings
3. to the school, from the school, to the job and from the job
4. to cultural actions and to other public actions
On the territory of the diocese of Nitra we provide a caring service in an extent in
the sense of the above mentioned law within the charitative –social
centres,completed –in order to achieve a complex way of caring- by the
charitative care in the families Our service is being provided predominantly for the
lonely living persons, for the citizens who are having no relatives in their place of
living, or for the people in material or spiritual state of emergency. Our caring
service is linked up with other social services, which are targeted at the complex
satisfaction of all the clients´ needs..
The statistical data:
• The Charity service in the families in Nitra
The number of clients during the year 2008:
40
The number of clients who died:
6
To some other caring service passed:
7
The number of clients at December the 31st, 2008:27
The number of hours worked:
11 311
The number of counselling hours for clients and relatives:512
•
The Charitative-social centre in the city of Žilina – Charity service in the
families
65
6
7
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The number of clients at December the 31st,2008 52
The number of re quest s for the Charity care:
88
The number of hours worked:
10 160
• The Charitative-social centre in the city of Nemšová – Charity service
in the families
20
2
3
The number of clients at December the 31st ,2008:15
AD 2.Providing of the social counselling and functioning of the social
prevention
The legislative classification /registration/:
The social counselling in the sense of the § 12, law No.195/1998 Digest of Law,
about the social aid is an expert activity aimed at the discovery of extent and
character of the social state of emergency, at the discovery of the reasons of its
origin,at providing informations about the possibilities of the social emergency
solving,at the orientation of the citizen as to his/ her choice and at the applying
of the forms of the social aid. .
The Diocesan Charity Nitra is entitled to providing of the social counselling and
social prevention, given in accordance with the § 84 of law No. 195/1998 Digest
of Law about the social aid in the version of the later regulations on the basis of
permission of the Slovak Department of Work and Social Affairs and of the R
SR No. 265/99 - I/52 to performing of the social prevention through searching
and corrective activities and as to the providing of the social counselling also in
accordance with the § 12,paragraph 1 of law No. 195/1998 Digest of Law about
the social aid in the version of the later regulations..
Social counselling and prevention are being provided in the framework of the
following charitative-social centers and facilities:
• The Charity Home of St. Raphael, Nitra
Social counselling
Social counselling creates the basic item of all activities in our facility.It is aimed
at the discovery of the reasons of the social and material emergencies. The target
group of clients are mainly the homeless people,the people after release from
imprisonment or from arrest, socially weak families and other marginalized social
groups. We are searching in cooperation with the client for some suitable and
accessible solutions,aimed at the alleviation or total elimination of problems.
The counselling is being provided as:
a) basic – informative and
b) long-term – through the activation of his/her motivational abilities we are
leading the client towards greater independence and responsibility for
himself/herself and for the solution of his/her situation. .
We are helping the clients to settle their personal documents, administrative
procedures,medical treatment, looking for job or acommodation. We are offering
them the possibility to deposit temporarily in our centre their personal documents
and finances. We are cooperating with the community (in their permanent place of
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living), with the Bureau of Jobs and social affairs, with the families, courts,
police,and also with another institutions and organizations working with the
people in emergency..
In 2008 we gave 1 478 interventions for 170 clients. Out of this number we
gave a long- time counselling with more than 3 interventions for 90 clients..
1.
Social prevention
Social prevention is being performed as a searching activity
and as a
resocialization activity..
Searching activity – or streetwork – is a field social work, on the street. We are
searching for our clients and we offer them possibilities to aid. We are performing
the basic- informative counselling. This way we address our new clients, but also
these, who are only rarely looking for aid in our facilities and who prefer the
individual way of life to the community. Within the framework of the field social
work we are also visiting our clients during their hospitalization..
During the year 2008 we made 1 589 field contacts.
We divide the resocialization into 3 stages. Its goal is to strenghten the working
habits, to motivate the client to a more active access during the solution of his/
her social situation,to increase his/her self-confidence and to teach him /her to
economize his/her financial means.
1. The 1st grade of activity is created by undemanding auxiliary works in
the object of our facility and/ or in its close environ. The clients without
financial means can this way earn some money through their own work
as a contribution for their received services. During this year we
engaged this way 69 of our clients in 1 194 activities in an extent of
635,5 working hours.
2. The second grade of the activities are the activities organized as whole
day´s working brigades, more demanding both as to the time and as to
the work which must be done. There is a difference also in the form of
reward, which is determined by the number of hours worked and the
client doesn´t receive the reward directly, but through buying some things
of personal need, whose concrete choice is directed by the client´s wish.
This way is possible to earn the fee for receiving new identity card, or
the payment for the railway or bus travel ticket .
In the second grade were engaged 11 clients during 2 group working
brigades and they all together worked for 400 hours.
3. The part of the third grade are the clients engaged in selling of a
magazine named Nota Bene. They are deciding themselves how to
divide their working time and they are also themselves economizing their
finances.
During this year were in the project Nota Bene engaged 32 of our
clients. We sold in the city of Nitra altogether 21 364 copies of this
magazine.
• Charitative-social centre Žilina
Social counselling is following up with the first social aid and it is assigned to
the people who are after the alleviating of their material emergency willing to
solve their situation. We are searching in cooperation with the client for the
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reasons and possible ways of sol ving of that state. Social counselling is
being given after the return from the improsonment, in the cases of long-time
unemployment, during the delivery of social support or of new personal
documents, during the process of registration on the Bureau of labour, and
so on.
In 2008 we provided social counselling to 174 of our clients.
Social prevention is being performed in several stages. It is being given to
these, who are willing to cooperate in the change of their way of life. We are
accompanying them during the discharge of their personal documents, we are
looking for a temporary accommodation for them, for a job, we enable our clients
to acept letters (used by 60 of our clients) on the address of Charity and we
enable them also to deposit here temporarily their financial means (used by 57 of
our clients).
By employment of a field social worker we improved our work on the streets.
Through our searching activity –or streetwork we contacted on the street
altogether 159 new or earlier addressed clients.
In the 1st.grade we continued in the resocialization activities for the homeless
people, for the people released from the imprisonment, for the alcohol or drug
addicts and for the people with decreased ability to incorporate into the society.
We engaged them in the cooperative activities in the daily asylum centre, which
were less demanding both of the time and physically. The number of the engaged
clients was 172.
the
second grade is
represented by the working
brigades, lasting for several
days and being under the
supervision of a social
worker.
Within
the
framework
of
these
activities 6 clients worked
altoghether 218 working
hours.
in the
third grade we
realize the distribution of
a street magazine named
Nota Bene. The goal of this
activity is to enable an improvement of their social situation for the people without
steady accommodation through their own endeavour. During the year 2008 sold
37 active street-sellers altogether 34 252 copies of that magazine.
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The activities of re-socialization of our clients
•
Charitative-social
centre
Trenčianska Teplá
The counselling services are
aimed at the discovery of the
extent and character of the
material and social emergency,
at the reasons of its origin,at
providing informations about
the possibilities of solving the
situation of
the material or
social emergency and at the
correct direction in the moment
of choice and applying of
different forms of social aid..
The basic concepcion of the counselling service in Charity issues from
respect for a human being who is able to solve with an aid of the
colunsellor his/her problems. It means to activate the client towards an
active sharing of his/her emergency situation solving.
The counsellor works with the actual informations, with the laws about the
possibility of aid from the side of the Charity, the state, or other responsible
organizations. The client in cooperation with the counsellor is looking for the
possible variants of the crisis solving.In social counselling we put the emphasis
on the client´s evaluation of his/ her situation and gradual convincing of the client
about the correctness of some change(s) of his/her behaviour. But at the same
time we must fully respect the client´s freedom.
1. Social counselling
social counselling was provided to 91 citizens, more exactly to the
following groups of people:
a/
the individuals – people with a diminished ability to mix in the social
environment, people with personality disorder, mentally afflicted people,
socially neglected people and others.
b/ The families - multimembered, incomplete, socially and economically weak
ones. We struggle to solve the problems of the families in a complex way. We
keep trying to help to improve the relationships in the family through a suitable
counselling-educative activity. We also keep trying to alleviate their state of
a material emergency through a material aid (furniture, clothes, footwear in
a cooperation with the parish charities) .
c/ The old and ill people/ZŤP- a Slovak abbreviation for the physically
disabled) – The aid here consists in searching activity and in the following aid
through a social counselling on the basis of the Law about the social aid 195/98,
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which merges into a social prevention. We mostly assure a personal visitation in
the client´s appartment.
1. Social counselling has been being provided in the following areas:
a./ The law No.195/98 about the social aid and with him connected amendments.
The aid during the delivery of the compensational requisites in severely
disabled elderly people. The citizen is instructed about the possibilities of the
compensations,like social services, allowances or a combination of both.The
help in writing an appeal against the decision of the Department of
Work,Social and Family Affairs, informations about the advantages, resulting
from the document of a physically disabled human, like, for instance,
a telephone bill discount,a help to achieve their disposal, etc.
Counselling is aimed at the complex solving of the situation in order the
citizen could live in his/her home environment with dignity.
b./ Through unrepeated financial aids from the community and city offices given in
order to bridge over an unfavourable time period.
c./ Through a job and/or a help in searching for a job.
d./ For a parent to get (again) in touch with his/ her nonaged child.
e./ In family problem(s) solving
f./ Help in writing official letters to different institutions.
g./ Help in the disposal of a complete invalide retirement.
h./ Help in writing a request for an acceptance into a senior citizens home.
ch./As to compensatory alimonies for children.
i./ As to the scholarships.
j./ In the cases of an eviction from the appartment, purchasing an appartment,
reallocating of an appartment, rental debts, quashing of common right of
using an appartment, etc..
k./ Help in writing of different proposals.
2. Social prevention
I.st stage–social counselling is merging into the prevention – searching for the
ways how to eliminate the crisis and realization of the needed steps.
II.nd stage – help in realizing the agreed steps.
III.rd stage – staying in touch with the client either through the visitation in his/her
home or through the client´s visitation in our centre.
3. The cooperation with the Euro- children
In the framework of the prevention in favour of the children and young people we
are cooperating with a Belgian organization named Euro-children in Antwerpen.
Through this organization are being mediated 4-weeks stays for the children
dependent on a social aid and the children from multimembered or incomplete
families in Belgian families. The stay of these children in families is gratis. The
expenses are carried by the Belgian family. Slovak parents pay only the journey,
which is organized in common by bus. For some children may the Belgian
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families contr ibute to the journey as well. For the families who cannot pay this
journey for their children, contributes Euro-children within a social support. In
2008 were through our centre being organized these stays for the children from
the whole Slovakia..
During that year spent their holidays this way 81 children, out of this number
51 children in the first turn since June the 30th till July the 26th 2008 and 30
chil dren i n the second turn since July the 23rd till August the 19th 2008. Out
of this number were 6 Romale (gypsy) chil dren from the village Poštárka
nearby the city of Bardejov. It was in the framework of a new project of social
working with the Romale children. We were to prepare to this stay not only the
children, but al so their parents.We realizeda personal meeting in the village
Poštárka. In this project we are cooperating with the Salesians, with the sister of
mercy Atanasia from Bardejov and with the civic association named
Bernardo,which ensures teaching of English for the Romale children. These stays
met a positive response both in children and in their parents. Out of these 6
Romale children 4 are visiting the Romale High School in the city of Kremnica.
As to the stay of the children in Belgium we are working systematically through
the whole year. Until March we are looking for new children, considering the
instructions from Belgium. At the same time we must work with the whole family
and prepare both the children and their parents for the children´s stay. Except
that we are still in touch both with the families of the newly invited children and
with the organization Euro-children. We ensure everything needed for the journey
into Belgium and back. We ´ve got good experiences with the children´s stay.
The children aren´t roaming through the streets, they improve in a foreign
language, because they are thrown upon it,they gain bigger experiences and
knowledge,and they make new friendships.
In the days between February the 23rd-February the 29th 2008 visited Slovakia
the director of the organization Euro-children,Mr.Arnold Poelman, who, apart from
other, met in Nová Dubnica with the children, who were to travel to Belgium that
summer. He visited also the village Poštárka,where he met the Salesians,the
sister of mercy Atanasia Holubová and the teacher of English Martin Demský. The
whole meeting was organized under the auspices of the Charitative–social centre
Trenčianska Teplá.
AD 3. Other social services
Under the term óther social services´ we understand providing social
services,which are not specifically mentioned or modified in the law about the
social aid or in the connected laws and which are complementary to the
complexity of the provided social services for the client for satisfaction of his(her
needs.
1. Visiting service
- Is assigned to the clients who are living alone, who are being i solated in
their environment, and it should help the gradual establi shing of the
client´s contact(s) with his/ her environment.
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In the case of hospitalization of our long-term clients or in the case of
their placing in a social service facility we ensure them our regular
visiting service.
2. Transporting service
- Is assigned only to the permanent clients. In accordance with our
possibilities and our evaluation of the client´s situation we ensure
him/her transport into the hospital or health centre and we may also use
this service during the client´s disposal of his/her official and private
affairs.
statistical data:
• Charity Nitra: 27 transports
3. Lending of health requisites
We provide this service for a limited time for the citizens, whose state of
health requires a sudden use of a health requistite. This service is being
provided in the centres, where the ADOS is established, in a close
cooperation with the ADOS.
- We
would lend wheelchairs, the transportable WC seat,lavatory
pan,rubber
wheels,crutches,beds–
electromotorical,positionable,rehabilitative
and
mechanical
ones,
antidecubital mattresses - passivne and active, oxygen concentrator,
pads, etc.
- Lending of health requisites is for the limited time. The clients would
receive a basic counselling about the possibility of getting a requisite via
the health insurance company.
Statistical data:
• Charity Nitra:
To 70 clients has been lent altogether 105
requisites
4.Spiritual service
- Consists in accompanying the client on his/her way of life,with respect
for the spiritual needs. As to the client´s need and interest we may
provide him/her also a service of the priest, the sanctity of reconciliation
(confession)and the holy extreme unction for the severely ill.
AD 4. Special activities in the frame of the charitative-social centres
• Charitative-social centre Nemšová
I. Providing of the basic social counselling in the following areas:
- An aid during the discharge of social benefits, of the contributions for
habitation, discharge of contributions in the state of a material
emergency,looking for a temporary accommodation, placing in a social
service facility.
In. 2008 was the social counselling provided to 17 clients in the extent
of 70 hours.
II.
a) an aid to the missions
b) The Christmas Eve dinner
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a) – an active engagement in the public financial collection in the whole
Slovakia in favour of the STRUGGLE AGAINST STARVATION – Let us help
Haiti /the total profit of this collection in the whole Slovakia was 9 700 000,Slovak crowns/
- organization of a financial collection in favour of the poor people in Siberia
- a collection of plastic lids from bottles - 300 kg
b) In the cooperation with the city office in Nemšová and with the parish charity in
Nemšová we organized already the 5th Christmas session for socially weak, lonely
and inadaptable citizens.We prepared the dinner, refreshment and small gifts in the
form of food- hygienical little parcels.
• Charitative-social centre Trenčianska Teplá
1.We created a project via the parish charity in Nová Dubnica for the city office in
Nová Dubnica,for which we received 5 000,- Slovak crowns.
2. For 10 children from the families from a disadvantaged social environment was
provided via the Social-habitation commission by the City council in Nová
Dubnica i n the framework of prevention near by the city a 2-weeks summer
camp called ´Frantík´ with the Salesians from Nová Dubnica. The camp was
financed by the City office.
3. As a deputy of the City council in Nová Dubnica was the Charity leaderess
from Trenčianska Teplá sharing on working out of the Conception of social
services for the city of Nová Dubnica. The Charity leaderess from Trenčianska
Teplá al so attends as an associate judge the trials on the District court
in Trenčíne in criminal–law processes.
Legislative facility-- registration:
- care given in the sense of § 20 and § 24 of the law No. 195/1998 Digest
of law about the social aid in the version of the later regulations
In the social service home is possible to give a care for the citizen with health
handicap, if:
a) he/she is being thrown upon thi s kind of social service
b) the kind of social service is for him/her useful, because:
1. in favour of this citizen cannot be provided any other kind of social service
when we consider the law about social aid
2. Providing of some other social service under a law about social aid would
not solve the state of social emergency of this citizen in a sufficient way.
In the home for senior cizizens is possible to give a care to a citizen, whom is
impossible to provide other social service under the law about social aid or in his/
her case wouldn´t providing of other social service solve in a sufficient way the
state of social emergency in a citizen,who:
a) Is a recipient of an old-age pension
b) For his/her unfavourable health state he/she requires a consistent care from
the side of another person, which can be ensured neither by the patient´s
family, nor by the usual health care, or
c) He/ she needs the care in the home for senior citizens from some other
serious reasons
In the sense of the law No. 195/1998, Digest o f Law,about the social aid in the
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version of the later regulations, is in the social service home and in the home for
senior citizens being provided:
a) The unavoidable care, what means:
1. giving meals
2. habitation
3. maintenance
b) another care, which is
1. counselling
2. hobbies
3. cultural activities
4. rehabilitation activities
5. The home provides personal equipment, if the care in the home for senior
citizens is being provided to a citizen all the year round and this citizen
has no personal equipment from the reason that he/she cannot
himself/herself or with the aid of his/her family ensure through his/her
income and/or through the income from his/her property.
6. The home supports an active participation in the social life
7. secures a safekeeping of valuables
The capacity of the facility:
The number of clients in 2008:
26 places
37 clients
The Charity home of St. Kamil began to provide its services in autumn 1997.
Since that time we are doing our best in order to enlarge and to improve the
services being provided. The care of the clients in our facility is aimed mainly at
providing of complex caring-caregiving services,but at the same time we realize
the importance of directing our attention at the all-round development of the
provided services and at the using of the newest knowledge in the area of social
work with the disabled and elderly people. In our facility we may dispose of
a rehabilitation room,in which the clients may use a stationary bicycle, pearl
bathing,a pulley, training by the wall – bars, or to try walking with a support of socalled G-apparatus. For relaxation can a skilled rehabilitation worker make them
a massage, paraffin pack,or light therapy (through an apparatus named
BIOPTRON). In their free time are the clients practicing art-therapy under the
auspices of a social worker. We still make every effort to k eep as close contact
as possible with the client´s original family and to cooperate with them, for
instance when we are organizing different activities for our clients..
The Charity home of St.Kamila cooperates wit h several high schools
(Pedagogical and social academy of St. Maria Goretti in Čadca, High School for
Nurses in Žilina, Grammar School of St. Francis from Assisi in Žilina,etc, whose
students may perform an expert practice in our facility and they may act there as
volunteers as well.
We celebrate together with our clients all feasts, we are meeting with each other
in their personal jubilees, and we al so prepare common sessions connected with
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a cultural program at some important opportunities: The New Year, The Day of the
iIll people, Easter, St. Kamil´s Day,,The Day of St. Elisabeth the Hungarian(the
patroness saint of the charity), St. N icholas Day, Christmas and others.
In the spiritual area we cooperate with several religious communities (the
Missionaries of Love of Mother Theresa,The Missionaries of the Holiest Heart
(dominicans). The clients have the opportunity to visit a chapel directly in the
Charity Home of St.Kamil, where are the dominicans regularly celebrating the
Holy Masses. We cooperate also with the volunteers, who are helpful during the
Holy Masses being celebrated in our chapel, but they also acompany the clients
for a walk, into the city, etc.
2. The Home for Children
Legislative classification:
With the validity since September the 1st, 2005, was accepted a new legislative
amendment, connected with the social- juridical protection of children and with the
social guardianship- the law No.305/2005 about the social-juridical protection of
children and about the social guardianship. The object of this law is an
amendment of the social-juridical protection of children and of the social
guardianship in order to ensure the prevention of the crisis situations in the family,
the protection of rights and of the interests of children, being protected by the law,
prevention of deepening and repetition of the psychical development disorders,
protection of the physical and social development of children and also of the
physical persons of age and in order to stop growing of the social-pathological
phenomena.
The home for children is in the sense of the § 49 of the above mentioned law an
environment, created and arranged for the purpose of exerting the court´s
decision about the order of an institutional care, preliminary measures and about
the order of an educational measure.
The home for children is temporarily supplying for a child his/her natural family
environment or his/her substitute family environment.
In the home for children is possible to provide care for a child until the
achievement of age and sometimes even further until his/her independence, but
at the longest time until his/her 25 years of age.From the point of view of this law
the independence means to ensure a habitation for himself/herself..
The purpose, for which were these facilities created, is being ensured by:
a) performing of
1. social work
2. an aid in order to manage a crisis
3. education
4. aid during preparation for the school learning
5. recreation activities
b) creation of conditions for:
1. food preparation
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2. activity of interest ( hobbies)
3. cultural activities
4. having a creditable record at work
5. safekeeping of valuables
c) ensuring
1. of the meals
2. of the health care in cooperation with the health care facilities
3. of the education and preparation for job (in cooperation with
school facilities and another educational institutions)
d) giving care
1.of habitation
2. of meals
3. serving activities
4. personal equipment
the
In July 2006 we got an accreditation to performing measures of social-juridical
protection of the children and of social guardianship in accordance with the § 9 of
the law No. 305/2005 Digest of Law about social-juridical protection of children,
about the social guardianship and about changing and completing of some laws.
The home of children is performing its activity in accordance with the § 47 par. 3
letter a) from the first to the fifth item,letter b) from the first to the fifth item, letter
c) from the first to the third item,letter d) from the first to the fourth item and par. 4
lett. c) ;
In a home for children is being performed an institutional care under the § 53 par.
1. lett. a) and par. 5 of the law about the social-juridical protection of children and
about the social guardianship under the § 11 par. 1 letters. a), b), c), d), e), f) and
par. 2 of the law about the social-juridical protection of children and about the
social guardianship..
The care in a home for children is being organized in autonomous groups.
During the care in the home for children we are issueing from the psychological
diagnostics, pedagogical diagnostics and special pedagogical diagnostics, which
is being ensured by the
diagnostic centre,in case of
need the home for children
itself for every child.. About the
development of every child in
a home for children is being
written a personal diary.
The homes for children create
by the Diocesan Charity of
Nitra are being run like the
homes for children of a family
type. The children placed are
descending from the families,
where the education from the
side of the parents because of
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the influence of alcohol, of a psychical disorder, of the loss of habitation, or the
parents show no interest in their children, or sometimes the children have
no parents.
The task of the team, who cares for the children, is to prepare the children into the
life in such a way,that the children should be able to care for themselves after
their coming of age both from the financial and from the practical aspect. And, of
course, what is very important is also the psychical and physical composure. To
this task is being adapted the whole facility and the whole educational process in
the homes for children.
We respect every child´s personality with his/her specific conditions and the need
of an individual acess. We keep trying to create a pleasant and a harmonical
environment. We are leading with the children personal dialogues about their
everyday problems and we are also concentrating on their feelings and
experiencing of the situations in which they find themselves.
The children are engaged in the usual houseworks,like preparation of meal,
cooking, everyday shopping, cleaning of their own rooms and of the common
rooms, small repairs of their clothes etc. We are teaching the children to access
responsibly to the performing of their school duties and to organize their free time.
They are visiting different working groups and groups of interest.
We are cooperating with the
district offices,county offices,
autonomous counties, social
trustees with a pediatrician,
Diagnostic centre, and with the
civic associations ´Úsmev ako
dar´ (A smile as a gift) and´
Návrat´ (The Return).
We are cooperating with the
volunteers who are helping the
children during the learning, as
an accompaniment to the
working groups and during the
different
activities
of
interest(s).
The free-time activities of children
The Charity Home for children Považská Bystrica,
The SNP Square 1451/61,
017 01 Považská Bystrica
Mgr. Oľga Pecíková
042/ 436 11 46
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A specialized facility of the Diocesan charity Nitra with all the year round
running
The Charity home for children in (the city of) Považská Bystrica is a facility, in
which are being performed the measures of the so called SPO of children and the
social guardianship in three autonomous groups for a child, who:
− Was withdrawn from his/her parents´ care for a temporary time,needed
for the normalization of the child´s situation
− Requires a more intense care on the basis of the result(s) of an expert
diagnosis because of the behaviour disorder.,
− He/she is already a young adult man/woman
The capacity of the facility:
30children and young adults
The number of clients at December the 31st.2008: 23 children and young
adults
Statistics from the point of view of the school attendance:
Elementary school:
6
Special elementary school:
6
High school:
10
Working young adult:
The children are living in three autonomous groups after finishing of building of
one part of the house. By finishing that the children gained more space of living,
better conditions, possibility of greater self-realization, more individual access
from the side of the educators, possibility (as young adults) to continue in
education after finishing High School, and also the possibility to bridge over the
time because of the employment when they are becoming independent. So the
young people don´ t have to end up on the street.
We put a great emphasis on the work with the child´s biological family. In this
work are engaged all educators in the framework of the child´s individual plans.
We are visiting together with children the families with children, we are involving
the parents into an educative process: an aid during the preparation of the child
to school, a visitation of the parents´ association, an active aid during the
preparation of their children for taking sanctities...
For the work with the child´s biological family is assigned a social worker directly
in his/her natural environment. We access to the biological parents from the
position of an aid, we are trying to mobilize the parents to create within the family
such conditions which might enable their children to return to their family
environment as soon as possible. We are engaging into this aid also the larger
circle of the family members. If it´s evident that the reasons for which was the
child taken away from the family are persistent and are not going to get changed
in the near future,we lead the parents towards the acceptance of a thought that
their child may grow up in a substitute family.
We consider a success also if the parents´ visitations in our facility become more
frequent and if the weekend stays of the chil dren in their biologicval family
become more regular.
During the year 2008 we were making an impact in 25 children to restore the
family environment out of which the children were taken because of the family´s
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function failure. In cooperation with the communities we managed to deliver
a contribution for travelling money during the parents´ visitations in the facility and
we also managed to deal in favour of some families the unrepeated contribution
in the pre-Christmas time.
We realized the visitations of children at their ill parents, in the framework of
social counselling, we help in delivery of social support to some parents, in
delivery of so called AČ, one mother in our facility was working thanks to the AČ.
In three yo ung adults we also in the framework of counselling realize an aid in
favour of ensuring the habitation and becoming independent.
There is in our facility also a room for a short stay of a parent during his/her visit
of his/her child.
During the year 2008 two young people finished their stay in our facility. One girl
went abroad to work and to live, one boy is working in Považská Bystrica and in
the framework of cooperation with the city he received a habitation. One girl
returned to her father after an improvement of the family conditions and her
institutional education was cancelled..
Through the cooperative project with the Austrian Charity and with the foundation
founded by theAustrian Erste Bank the children were during the year attending
some educative projects, healing-recovering stays, summer camps,a tourist stay
in Svidník altogether with a tourist group from Bratislava, or a ski course on
Orava.
Spiritual service: 1 child took the sanctity of the first Communion, 3 children the
sanctity of confirmation, the educators attended spiritual exercises.
The employees of the facility are attending the expert trainings, seminars and
conferences. 3 educators graduated in 2008 in an enlarged study- in the special
pedagogy. 2 others are continuing in a study of social work,and 1 our employee is
a doctorand.
Our facility is intensely cooperating with the leading authorities of the individual
regions ( ÚPSVR – SPOaSK and, ÚPSVT TN),with the city of Považská Bystrica,
with the villages where the children are coming from,with the schools, with the
OPPP Považská Bystrica , with the physicians and with the LVS.
The Charity Home for children of St.Louise,Nitra
Samova str.4, 950 50 Nitra
Mgr. Ivana Kreháková
037/ 77 20 214
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A purposeful facility of the Diocesan charity Nitra with
running
The capacity of the facility :
The number of clients at December the 31st,2008:
all the year round
12 places
10
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Statistics from the point of view of the school attendance:
Elementary school:
The special elementary school:
Re-educational centre:
Secondary technical training institution with the GCE examination:
Secondary technical school with the GCE examination:
University:
4
1
1
1
2
1
The Charity Home of St.Louise is a home for children with a family-like kind of
education, whose main priority is providing of an all – round care for a child in
accordance with his/her individual needs with the goal of his/her h armonical
development and return of the child to his/her family environment. In the case that
there is no possibility of the child´s return to his/her biological family – is the goal
a mediation of a substitutive family care (substitutive individual care,foster-parent
care, adoption, professional family).
During the year 2008 finished the stay in our facility 2 children. Out of this was 1
chil d placed in a foster family and 1 young adult person became independent.
During the same year was into our facility accepted on the basis of a court´s order
about an ordered institutional care one 16 years old boy.
We are cooperating with the departments of the social-juridical protection and
social guardianship, with a pedagogical-psychological counselling office, with the
civic associations Návrat (The Return) and Úsmev ako Dar (A Smile as a Gift) and
mainly with the child´s family. And today like in the previous years has been
helping us in a great extent the fatther Bishop Marian Chovanec by his regular
visitations and by the spiritual consolation.1 boy took the sanctity of the first
Communion.
In the year 2008 we continued in the common project with the Austrian Charity
and the Erste Bank, aimed at the education of both children and employees under
the name:“ Let us shake hands with the children“. Thank to this project may the
children attend different working groups,language courses, free-time activities,
outdoor trips and holiday stays.
One day trips:
MDD – Šaľa
ÚaD – The nicest concert of the year - Nitra,
Bratislava
Holiday stays: -
skiing-
Trangoška
in
the
Low
Tatras
- a visitation of the Therma park in Veľký Meder
-summer camps for children-the international
language
camp in Villach, Austria
Summer camp
for children with behaviour
disorder in Ružomberok
- Summer camp Žblnky – Vlnky (Splosh and
Waves)
- a convalescent home for children
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-a week stay in Korni and in Betliar
3 educatoresses got through a seminar whose topic was: "Plays for managing of
aggressiveness“, another seminar with the topic "Children with behaviour
disorder“ and 2 educatoresses got through a course named: "The community
social work“.
We finished the year 2008 with the common Christmas Eve dinner.The Christmas
themselves the children spent thereafter by their parents, relatives and foster
parents.
The year 2008 was also under the sign of the 10th anniversary of founding the
Charity Home of St.Louise for the children. In this ocassion we organized a small
celebration, connected with the festive Holy Mass. At the same time there was
created a space for common meetings and dialogues among the fosterlings of the
Charity Home for Children, our former employees and all the friends who have
been helping us.
3. Shelter (common lodging house)
The legislative classification/registration/:
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social service provided in the sense of the § 30 law No.195/1998 Digest of
Law about the social aid in the version of the later regulations
- in the shelter is possible to provide care for a citizen, who is without a roof
over his/her head and
a) he/she is in a state of material emergency as to the special regulation
b) an institutional or prophylactic care was in his/her case cancelled, because
he/she has come of age
In the shelter is being given:1.The shelter as such
2. provision
3. counselling
4. socia prevention
The above mentioned services is possible to provide :a)at night
b)
temporarily
The Charity Home of St. Raphael, Nitra
Štúrova str. 57, 949 01 Nitra
Mgr. Klára Labošová
0907 451 771
The St. Raphael Charity Home was established by the Diocesan Charity Nitra on
June 23rd. 2008. In the festive opening of the common lodging house participated
also the mayor of the city of Nitra Ing. Jozef Dvonč, CSc. .
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The activity of this facility follows up with the experiences and activity of the Daily
Asylum centre of the Diocesan Charity Nitra. Thanks to cooperation and financial
supportof the City office of Nitra we might have moved the providing of our
services to the more suitable rooms and at the same time we might have
enlarged our services by the night shelter /low-threshold night shelter/ - § 30
of the Law no. 195/1998 Digest of law about social aid in the version of the later
regulations.
The capacity of the facility - 24 places
The night shelter /low-threshold night shelter/ was established in order to provide
the night´s lodging for these people who from different reasons cannot keep the
rule and regime in other facilities and who are unable to abstain from (mis)using
alcohol and/or other addictive substances. The only condition for the client´s
acceptance here is that he/she must not endanger himself/herself and/or his/her
environs.
Since July 2008 we provided 3496 night´s lodgings.
Other services of the St.Raphael Charity Home:
- social counselling and prevention /see the special part/
- providing of hygiene - 1120 times.
- Providing of meals - 2 081 lunches, 1 343 breakfasts, 1 792 diners
- Providing clothes
During the providing of the social aid in our shelter are to our professional social
workers considerably helpful both the volunteers and the member of the monastic
communities in the city of Nitra. A special cooperation is developed especially with
the sisters of mercy from the Society of daughters of the Christian love.
The Charity home Jeremiah Trenčín
Soblahovská str. 65, 911 01 Trenčín
Mária Bernátková
032/ 652 63 63
The Charity home Jeremiah was established by the Diocesan Charity Nitra on J
anuary the 7th, 2008 in order to provide social services in the sense of § 30 of
the l aw No. 195/1198 Digest of law as a night shelter /common lodging house/.
The capacity of the facility- 30 places
The main goals of our activity
- to provide the first social aid for the homeless people and for the people in
crisis
- to provide acommodation at night for the homeles people who are on the
beginning of the re-socialization process
- to provide acommodation at night for the ill and dying homeless peopole
The partial goals of our activity:
- to realize the re-socialization of the people from marginal groups of the
population
- to provide the basic social counselling for our target groups
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to monitor the health state of the homeless people as a prevention against
spreading of infectious diseases
In the first period /January -April 2008/was our social work aimed mainly at the
renewal of the basic hygienic habits of our clients, at the care for their
health,strenghtening their volitive abilities, renewal of their communicative skills,
recreation of their relationships to individuals and to the society,acknowledgement
and respecting of the society´s norms, basic social counselling.
In the second period /May - December 2008/ was our social work aimed at the
social prevention, it means the renewal of working habits, engaging the clients in
the re-socialization activities and at the streetwork – mapping of the homeless
people in the town and entering into contacts with them.
The number of clients in 2008:
155
The number of night´s lodgings:
8 481
The basic social counselling /an aid during discharging of personal
documentation, support in the material emergency, discharge of the citizenship /
10 clients
Return into their family
2 clients
Social prevention:
A temporary job on the basis of the deal about working activity:3 clients
A temporary job of a member of a working team:
14 clients
A job through an activation support :
1 client
Re-socialization activities of the1.Ist grade /auxiliary works in the object and in its
environs/:
80 clients
Re-socialization activities of the 2nd grade /selling of the ´ Nota Bene´magazine/
16 clients
The Charity Home o f St. Gianna in Čadca
Kukučínova str. 6, 022 01 Čadca
Eva Ondrušková
041/ 4323 40 88
The Charity Home of St.. Gianna in Čadca was founded on July the 1st 2007 by
the Diocasan Charity Nitra for the purpose of providing social services in the
sense of § 30 of the law No.195/1995 Digest of Law about a social aid –an
overnight shelter for men and women and a temporary habitation for women for
a limited time.
The shelter for men and women at night – a common lodging house
The shelter for men is situated in the basement. Its maximal capacity is 10 men..
The shelter for women is situated on the floor. The entrances into the building for
men and women are separated. The capacity of the common lodging house for
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women is 5 beds. The shelter is being directed in acordance with the operational
rules and with the daily rules. The operational time is 24 hours daily and 365 days
in a year. .
During the year 2008 was our common lodging house used by:
11 women who spent there altogether 270 nights
32 men who spent there altogether 1 688 nights
Shelter for women as a temporary habitation
This acommodation is situated on two floors.Its capacity is 10 beds. The womenclients are living in 2- or 3 bedded rooms. They may dispose of a social room,
where the working therapy is running. It consists from knitting,
embroidery,weaving of simple carpets,crocheting and other different handiworks.
The women-our clients- have divided services in ensuring of the facility´s running
–here it means cleaning the house and food preparation. The average age of the
acommodated women is
35 years. The clients are being motivated to the
renewal and keeping of their working habits and we are helping them to achieve
a new employment. We are teaching them responsibility,the basic hygienical
habits,and to set the table and serve. What is very important is a permanent
communication. In the everyday contact with the clients is the position and work
of a social worker irreplaceable. Regarding the fact that some of these women
are not from the Žilina region we need also to arrange for them a visit of the
district physician and sometimes also of a specialized physician and other expert
social aid.
The time of stay in the Charity home is determined according to the time which
is needed for the women´s gaining independence in such an extent to be able to
incorporate themselves into the ordinary life in the society.
Our service was used by 23 women in altogether 3 023 days, what means on
average 8 women monthly.
Out of the number of all the above mentioned 23 women we managed to place 2
women into the Charity Home of St. Kamil and 1 woman into the Resocialization
centre in Banská Bystrica. 7 women returned to their homes, 4 women voluntarily
finished their stay.
Resocialization activities:renewal of an abandoned shabby cross, St.Nicholas´s
feast party, Christmas academy, renewal of the outer facade of the facility.
Daily asylum centre
A part of the Charity Home of St.Gianna is also the Daily asylum centre,which is
caring for the people without home,who are being because of their social
inadaptability without the roof overhead as well. Through providing the DAC´s
services we struggle for the complex solution of the human problems, we provide
the basic social counselling, we are helping during discharging personal
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documents, during their searching for job(s) or accommodation. We also provide
the first social aid(food,clothes) and give the clients the possibility of carrying out
their personal hygiene. The social prevention is being made through the
resocialization –performing some simple working tasks in the DAC, engaging in
selling the Ńota Bene´ magazine.At present we record 29 magazine-sellers,but
out of this number are only 3 people being active.
An overlook of the provided services:
The centre of the personal hygiene
Food giving/1x warm meal/
Clothes
times
Laundry
times
The basic social counselling
373 times
905 times
564
323
27 clients
The Charity-social centre Žilina
Predmestská str.No.12, 010 01 Žilina
Mgr. Peter Birčák
041/ 724 47 956
- shelter at night
- the daily asylum centre
This project is complementary to
the already existing parts of the
social net for the people from the
marginal
groups
of
population.The
shelter
is
assigned to the people who are
included into the process of
resocialization in the framework
of the Daily Asylum Centre and
who are able to keep up a partial
abstinency before and during
the stay in the shelter, to the
citizens, who are separated from
the society, but also for those,
who from any reasons have lost their home and the stay in the shelter is for them
a transient form of habitation.
In the year 2008 we provided the night´ s lodging for 157 clients.
Daily asylum centre is assigned to the people without their home and released
from the custody.
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It provides a social service in the sense of the § 37 of law No. 195/1998,
Digest of Law, about a social aid in the version of the later regulations–a
centre of personal hygiene
In the framework of the first social aid we secure:
- Carrying out the basic body
hygiene
(washing,shaving,
bathing). During the year was
this service provided for 147
clients.
Issueing of clothes and
footwear for the homeless people
and socially weak strata of
inhabitants. During the year was
this service used by 128 clients.
- Providing of food ( giving one
warm meal
daily)
- 233
clients.
- We permitted our regular clients
to wash their personal belongings and
underclothes - 37 clients.
A Christmas session with the clients
III.
Health services
Agencies of home nursing care (The Slovak abbreviation is ADOS)
Legislative classi fication (registration):
- Care provided in the sense of the law No. 576/2004 Digest of Law about
the health care and the services connected with the health care
providing
The agency of home nursing care is a part of the primary health care and
belongs to the net of the health facilities. It is defined as an outpatient care
provided in the home environment or in some other natural environment of the
person in favour of whom is being provided. It provides a complex nursing care
for a client, families or groups in their natural social environment.
Contents of activity:
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A complex nursing care in the home environment for the patients and clients
of all the age groups in which is being indicated especially the care after the
finishing of the institutional treatment, care for the acutely ill people without
need of a hospitalization,for the chronically ill people, for the patients in
terminal states and for the socially and medically risky groups of the
population).
An adjustment of the home environment and the way of living as to the
character of the illness.
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Securing of personal hygiene
Caring for the basic functions of life
Application of medication and healing of the wounds
rehabilitation
taking some material for medical examination or maybe for some other
screening inquiry
health education and counselling
Another tasks:
- running the documentation
- administrative works,accounting
- coordination of work
- purchasing of material, planning of activities
- lending requisites
• THE ADOS NITRA , THE ADOS ILAVA
Providing of health care in the facilities of an outward care – the Slovak
abbreviation is ADOS- is being developed and is reacting on the actual changes
in connection with the changing legislative basis of the provided services. In the
sense of the valid law precepts we worked out in the framework of our facilities
a manual of quality.
We have been making a considerable progress as to the completing of
qualification of the nurses on the level of specializations and of their University
studies of the 1st and 2nd grade.
The nurses are in the framework of their outward field care dealing with the
complex needs of the patient, including his/her education, support of his/her
family´s care and its engaging in the nursing process. In the framework of the
ADOS´s care we differ the prevention on the primary, secondary and tertiary
levels and we use the newest knowledge from the area of the nursing care.
During the realization of the caring process we use the international classification
systems- NIC, NOC, NANDA.
The ADOS Charity Nitra and the ADOS Charity Ilava are stabilized subjects of
providing nursing care in the framework of their territorial activity. Except the
permanent improving the provided care we still have to, taking into consideration
its considerable financial undervaluation, initiate negotiations with the health
insurance companies about accepting the provided care and its financial
refundation.
The ADOS Charity Nitra:
258
The number of examinations:
11461
The ADOS Charity Ilava:
The number of examinations:
126
12271
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Thanks to the high quality both of the material and of the instrumentation of the
health care needs for the ADOS, secured from the means from the DCV project,
we could have provided for the clients the possibility of lending of the high quality
health care needs, what would considerably contribute to the improving and
completing of the care, being provided for the clients at their homes.
ADOS Nitra, Samova str. 4, 950 50 Nitra
Andrea Jašíková
037/ 77 21 792, 77 21 738
ADOS Ilava, Farská str. 84/5, 019 01 Ilava
Bc. Anna Štúriková
042/ 446 63 37
Hospic – the house of peace and reconciliation at St. Bernadette
Chrenovská str. 22B, 949 01 Nitra
MUDr. Katarína Mičiaková
037/ 653 10 42
The legislative facility:
- an institutional health facility in the sense of the law No. 578/2004 Digest of
Law,§7,par. 3, lett. c)
The very thought of hospice issues from the respect for life and from the
respect for a human as an unique, unrepeatable being. It respects the right of
every human to a dignified death. The hospice care is assigned to the patients in
the terminal phase of their illness, it means in the time when their illness ceased
to react to the causal treatment.
The hospice gurantees to the ill person that:
He/she will not suffer from an unbearable pain
In every situation will be saved and respected his/her human dignity
During the last moments of his/her life he/she will not stay lonely.
The Diocesan charity Nitra is devoting to the issues of the hospice care since
1999. The hospice- house of peace and reconciliation- was ceremonially
blessed and opened in February 2007.
The hospice-house of peace and reconciliation- at St.Bernadette is having
capacity of 15 beds. From the point of view of the complex architectonical and
operational solution was the main goal of the building to create a cosy, pleasant
environment with the homely feeling for the patients and their family members
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and at the same time an effective health facility, in which will be possible to
provide the hospice care in accordance with the most modern medical
knowledge. The project was adapted to this goal both as to its technical and as to
its building side and this intention fills also the project of the interior equipment of
the hospice and our endeavour is to breathe into this house an ambience of
acceptance for every its visitor.
The hospice´s goal is:
- To provide for an ill man/woman an alleviation of the pain and other serious
symptomps of his/her illness
- To improve the quality of life of the patient until his/her last moments
- To assure the patient a complex treatment and care with taking account of
his/ her individual social, psychical and spiritual needs
- To provide support for the relatives and another persons close to the patient
- To provide a supportive system and to create such conditions in which the
patient could live as actively as possible as long as until his/her death
The paliative care in the hospice is being assured by the team of physicians,
nurses, male nurses, but also by a social worker, a priest and some volunteers.
The care for an incurably ill and dying patient is being aimed mainly at the
alleviation of the symptoms of an illness, at providing the physical well-being and
after all at the assurance of the psychical, social, emotional and spiritual support
for the patient and his/her closest persons in the terminal stage of illness, during
dying and in the period of sadness.
The daily regimen is different from the usual health facilities. It is fully adapted to
the individual needs and state of the patients.
The conditions of acceptance:
Here are being accepted the incurably ill patients in the advanced stage of
a chronical,actively progressing illness, in whom is being presumed a timely
limited survival. The patients are accepted into the hospice on the basis of their
own request and of the recommendation of the practical or of some other treating
physician.
The hospice – house of peace and reconciliation at St. Bernadette in Nitra has an
agreement with all the Slovak health insurance companies and so it can accept
the patients from the whole Slovakia in the case of an indicated diagnosis.
During the year 2008 we provided our care for 105 pacients.
The most significant events during the year 2008:
The year 2008 was passing in the spirit of the permanent expert and personal
development of the provided services and we emphasized also the development
of the social and spiritual aspects of the accompanying ill people and their family
members.
From the point of view of an expert cover is significant the activity of the expert
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guarantee Ms. Mičiaková, M. D. The increase of the qualification of the staffs
is being achieved by their attendance at the expert seminars, through specialized
education and through completing of their expert education. The delegates of
the hospice attended the international conference "Christian in health service" in
Brno and actively attended the International conference of the hospice caregivers
in Krakow,Poland. They also attended the meeting of the hospice caregivers in
the city of Bardejov, Slovakia.
In the framework of an expert cooperation we realized in the hospice a meeting of
the representatives of the Slovak society for study a treatment of pain, department
of paliative care,and the representatives of our hospice are members of the
preparatory commitee of the XI.th Czecho -Slovak dialogue about pain in Nitra.
The hospice in Nitra worked out through the public competition an offer for
securing of the "Practical teaching of the students from the Faculty of Social
Sciences and Health from the University of Constantin Philosopher(the Slovak
abbreviation is UKF) in Nitra in the study branch of the Care in a Hospice" and in
the school year 2008/2009 it became a teaching centre for the performance of an
expert practice of the UKF students in Nitra.
During the year we also aimed at the systematization and coordination of the
work with volunteers. After an informative campaign and an active recruiting
campaign for the volunteers was during November organized a schooling for
volunteers.. The volunteers engaged themselves actively in the hospice´s
services and now they are a significant part of the life in the hospice mainly
during accompanying of the ill people.We aimed at the supportive and
supervisional meetings with the volunteers as well.
Through their own help as volunteers engaged themselves in the project
of the hospice also the students from the High School in Zoetermeer (the N
etherlands), who were during June actively working on the adjustment of the
hospice´s environs and in the landscaping.
A significant day in the hospice´s life was February the 10th,2008, when the
auxiliary Bishop of the Nitra diocese Mons. Marián Chovanec celebrated the
ritual of blessing the Chapel of St.Bernadette in the hospice.
By the spiritual management of the Chapel of St.Bernadette was commissioned
a salvatorian, reverend Andrzej Drogoś, SDS. The chapel became the heart of
the hospice. It is a place of living meetings,the ill people are meeting each other
there, the ill people meet the healthy as well and it i s a place for meeting with the
God. The Chapel of St.Bernadette is an ecumenical one, open for everybody
regardless of his/her confession of faith. It is a space opened for the public, so
anybody may stand here for a while during his/her everyday walk along the
hospice and confront his/her life.
An important part of the hospice care i s also the spiritual accompany of the ill
people and their family members during this hard period of their lives, at the time,
when people are asking themselves many questions and are searching for the
answers and for an understanding. With an echo of a grateful acceptance met
the organization of the regular meetings with the survivor. A part of these
meetings is always the Holy Mass in favour of the deceased, connected with an
inscription into the Book of Life. And thereafter is created a space for the mutual
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sharing, for memories, but also for an encouraging and for creating of new
relationships.
But the most important moments in the hospice remain the everyday moments of
days and nights, when we can accompany our ill people and their close persons,
to be being close to them ourselves and to help them in their living.
During the year 2008 were realized some projects thanks to the support
of the League against cancer – from the yield of collection from the Day of the
narcissuses.
Propagation
of the hospice care
within the town of
Nitra was also a goal
of an infortmative
stand
in
the
framework
of the
Christmas town in
December
2008,
which was connected
also with a financial
collection in favour
of the hospice.
The Chapel
In the hospice
IV.
The centre of methodics and quality of the charity activities
Samova str. 4, 950 50 Nitra
PaedDr. Milena Beresecká
037/ 77 21 792
The centre of methodics and quality of the charity activities (the Slovak
abbreviation is SMKCHČ) arose on the beginning of the year 2008 in the
framework of the organization changes, connected with the transformation of
working of the Charity –social centre in Nitra into the Charity service in the
families and through the transfer of the social services for the homeless people
from the Daily asylum centre on Samova str.No. 4 to the Charity Home of St.
Raphael on Štúrova str. No.57.
The goal of these working activities is the increase of quality of the
charity-social services, realizing of educational activities both in the individual and
in a group form in order to increase the expert competences and the psychohygiene of the employees, preparation of new projects and realization of some
small projects aimed at the social counselling and social trainings with specific
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target groups.
The activity of the SMKCHČ has been being realized in the following areas:
1. Methodical help during the inception of working of the St.Raphael´s
Charity Home in Nitra and of the Charity Home Jeremiah in Trenčín.
2. The common meetings with the leaders of the individual facilities in order
to work out a strategic plan of the development of the Charity activities in
the Nitra and Žilina dioceses for the time period since 2009 till 2012.
3. The common meetings of the social workers of the organization aimed
at the exchange of experiences in a form of counselling among the
colleagues, further education and a psychohygiene.
Number of meetings during
Kind of meetings
2008
Leaders of the facilities
5
Social workers working with the homeless
4
Social counsellors and social workers
3
Leaders of nursing care
2
The volunteers in the CHSC Žilina
2
4. Individual meetings with the leaders of the facility and with the social
workers aimed at the improving of quality of the social work, solving of
the problem sitiuations together
with the clients, keeping the
documentation about the clients and contacts with the deputies of the
selfgovernment.
Facility
Number of meetings in 2008
The Charity Home St. Raphael in Nitra
3
The Charity Home Jeremiah in Trenčín
14
T he Charity - social centre in Nemšová
5
The Charity - social centre in Žilina
2
TheCharity Home St. Gianna in Čadca
3
5.Supervisions of the employees of the organisation, carried out on the basis of
the order of the employees themselves. During the year were carried out four
supervisions in the following facilities: The Charity Home for Children in Povážská
Bystrica,The Charity-Social Centre in Žilina, The Charity Home of St. Kamil in
Žilina, The Charity Service in the families in Nitra.
6.An administrative activity aimed at the creation of an effective, united
documentation about the clients, working out the data for the internal
guidelines and working out the data for the negotiations about the different
comments during the creation of the proposal of the law about the social
services.
7.Performing of a social counselling for the clients in specific situations and
performing of the informative social counselling personly,through a telephone and
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through an e-mail.
8.Preparation of new projects through building the partnerships with the selfgovernments and the partner organisations through the presentations of the
activities of our organisation:
Charity – social centre in Trenčianské Teplice
Common lodging house and the daily centre for the homeless
people in Nové Zámky, in the preparative phase an attendance
at the creation of an action plan of development of the social
services for the homeless people.
Projekt of a long-time reintegration of the victims of the trade
with humans
9.Project activity: a plea for an irreversible financial contribution from the
Fund of the social developoment for the project „Innovative low-threshold
social services for the homeless people“
10. Realisation of the pilot project of the organisation aimed at the
resocialization- and social trainings of clients of probation in cooperation
with the Regional court in Nitra. In this project were engaged during the
year two clients.
The centre of methodics and quality of the Charity activities should react
quickly and effectively to the actual needs of the organization,requests and
needs of the employees, concerning the providing of social services for the
clients. It should react to the legislative changes in the social area as well.
I believe that in the first year of the centre´s activity we managed to achieve
some shift in the development of quality of the charitative activities in the
organization´s facilities and in the bulding of a trustworthy relationship.
The protected workshop
The protected workshop of St. Joseph
Samova str. 4, 950 50 Nitra
037/ 77 21 792
Legislative facility/registration/:
- Creating jobs for the handicapped people in the sense of the law No..
5/2004 Digest of law about the services in favour of the employment
The protected workshop of St.Joseph with a view to the bookbinder works was
established on J anuary the 15th, 2002.
The main motive for the rise of such a workplace was creating of jobs and the
possibility of including the people with an impaired working ability into the
working process and the subsequent abolishing of discrimination of these people
in connection with their working possibilities on the job market. During the year
2006 was the protected workshop having 2,5 employees – out of this number
were 2 with an impaired working ability.
The main specialization of the protected workshop of St.Joseph are bookbinding
works. The protected workshop, thanks to its work of high quality,secured for itself
a clientele not only in the place of its activity and in its near environs, but also
from the more distant places. We are specialized mostly in the bookbinding of the
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extended essays, dissertations and doctorate works. We addressed different
institutions, enterprises, municipal and city offices etc. In connection with our
offer of bookbinding of the digests of laws and of different archival materials. Ano
ther group whom we addressed were the parish offices and church institutions
with the possibility of restoration and repairs of the ancient books or of the whole
libraries. Except these addressed groups has our workshop been being visited
by a lot of individuals,who brought there to get bookbound different magazines,
newspapers, or who have been having some special wishes in the area of
bookbinding works. To the special orders can our workshop access in a very
flexible way. In 2006 we bough some apparatuses, with which we enlarged our
offer of the bookbinding works by laminating and by the heat- and the comblike
book binding.
Also in the year 2008 we may claim that the protected workshop of St.Joseph is
successfully operating in the competitive environment and brings into the
contemporary time even many other elements – willingness to help, providing the
space and chance for the ill people and making the Charity more socially visible.
Statistical data:
Binding of books and magazines:
Dissertation works:
Boxes, cases and covers :
Digests of Law:
569 pcs
326 pcs
64 pcs
80 pcs
Comblike bookbinding:
Laminating:
Heat binding:
26 pcs
7 pcs
2 pcs
Repairment of covers, flats, metal book corners and others
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VYDRA
Hlavná 56, 976 52 Čierny Balog
www.vydrovskadolina.sk
Contact person: Zuzana Sitarčíková
ABOUT US
The NGO Vydra („Otter“)
was founded in 1992 from
the
initiative
of
the
volunteers. Their main target
was
to
create
some
supporting activities and
complex services for the
visitors of the region. Their
first goal was to associate all
the service givers from the
environs and to help them in
their effort to offer services
and
propagation.Vydra
organized for them courses
during which was being
described for them the modern demand for services and the possibilities how to
make themselves more visible and /or how to achieve success in tourism
activities. Through doing that they indirectly
caused a great development of the town Čierný
Balog.
The NGO Vydra is at present cooperating with
the narrow-gauge forest railway by the river Black
Hron, with the local community and on the
microregional level also with another subjects in
the environ. It creates an association named
Vydrovská Dolina (Otter Valley) which is – as a
locality- a touristically attractive one. They are
also running in the town an information centre,
which, beside other, serves for selling of the
traditional handicraft products which are being
made gratis by the local artisans. This support of
these traditional artisans trades is very sucessful
and the Vydra´s voluntary activities are sucessful
as well. The volunteers, in the number of 25 people, are participating in the care
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and maintenance of the town through different publicly useful works. In these
works are participating also the members of the children´ (scouting or scoutinglike) summer camps, in which are during the whole summer interchanging 5
turns. Except these works are in these camps being played some team-building
and environmental games and entertainments in which are the children getting
acquainted with the nature and learning the secondary recyclation..
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ČIERNOHORSKÁ ŽELEZNICA
www.chz.sk
Contact person: Ing. Aleš Bílek
ABOUT US
The first part of this narrow-gauge
railway was built up in 1908.As
early as a year later began the
railway transporting regularly not
only people, but also timber from
the environs in which is this region
rich. The total length of the railway
achieved 132 km (82 miles). In
1982 was the railway closed as the
last
narrow-gauge railway of
forestry in Slovakia. But as early as
in 1983 arose in Čierný Balog a
new tradition of a voluntary working
summer camps called Strom života (The Tree of Life),whose voluntary attendants
participated in the uplifting of the environs. 7 km (4,5 mi) of this narrow-gauge
railway was later written on the list of cultural heritage. In the following years was
the railway being repaired and reconstructed and its new era started in 1992.
At contemporary time is the railway 16 km (10
mi) long and it is being used for tourist activities.
Its main route leads from Čierný Balog to
Hronec (10 km-6 ¼ mi) and its adjacent branch
leads from Hronec to Chvatimy (2 km- 1 ¼ mi).
On its end you can find another point of interest
of this locality- Lesnický skanzen (The open- air
museum of Forestry). Čierný Balog may pride
on a very colorful offer for tourism. This is,after
all, the most important item of the whole little
town. Except the narrow-gauge railway itself are
the locals cooperating also with the village and
organization which both are called Vydra (Otter)
and subsequently are both of them connected in
the organization called Vydrovská Dolina (The
Otter Valley).
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The narrow-gauge forest railway by the Black Hron River plays a very important
role in the region. Thanks to this railway is possible to develop the tourist activity
in an region which is otherwise very poor as to the job openings.
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MISERICORDIA, N. O.
P. Jilemnického 134/749, 976 52 Čierny Balog
www.misericordia.sk
Contact person: Tatiana Štalrajterova
ABOUT US
The NGO Misericordia (i.e.“Mercifulness“ -from Latin) was founded by the civic
association named Paradiso as a local organization in Čierný Balog in order to
support social services. The task of this organization was to get a property basis
for the social services in Čierný Balog. On this foundation was created a project
plan for building a new social centre.
The House of the social services would serve not only as a centre for these
services, but also as a caring home and as a home for the senior citizens. The
expected capacity of this object is 59 clients. Out of this number would 30 people
need a more intensive control, whereas the remaining 29 would be the inhabitants
of a home for the senior citizens. The vision of the whole project is to provide the
complex services from accommodation facilities till laundry, rehabilitation or
boiling room. These services might be being used also by the seniors who want
no more to leave their homes. The NGO Misericordia struggles to support the
home environment and we would like to prove this by performing the above
mentioned things.
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KOMUNITNÉ CENTRUM N.O.
Contact person: Lubica Pánčiková
ABOUT US
In January 2002 was founded the
organization
Komunitné centrum (The
Community centre) by the communities
Čierný Balog and Vydra in order to make
independent the community programs of
Vydra which are being realized in the
village since 1998. In the building of this
centre are being realized not only
programs for children, youth and for the
adults, but also some minor services and
counselling for the citizen and at the same
time there are being organized also some
cultural-societal activities. In 2003 was by
the Komunitné centrum established also a
senior citizens club called
Dôvera
(Trust).In the same year was the centre
included into the register of the social
service providers in the Banská Bystrica
region.
The goal of the centre
is to provide the social
and humanitarian aid in
favour
of
the
handicapped
or
socially disadvantaged
people, services for
supporting
of
the
regional development
and to create at the
same
time
the
programs for support of
the tuition, education,
and
for
the
development
of
physical culture. At
present they are having
three target groups. The first of them is working with the unemployed people,
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within which are being supported some individual persons, their skills and
personalities are being developed and at the same time they receive also an
individual counselling and informative services. Into this group belong also the
protected workshops which keep helping the handicapped people. The other
group are senior citizens, for whom the centre regularly presents different cultural
actions and and keeps trying to engage them in the life in the community The
last group is working with our Romale (=gypsies) citizens. In Čierný Balog are
existing 4 Romale settlements which the community tries to connect with each
other through the centre´s programs. On the basis of coordination, established
mainly through the Romale family named Pustajovi ,are being regularly
presented different mini-festivals of the Romale culture and there is functioning
also a childish theatre assembly. Football matches among the all four settlements
are no exceptions either.
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ESTONSKO
Estonia is at present
time
administratively
divided into the regions
(in
Estonian:
maakond), which are
further divided into
self-governments
(omavalitsus).
Selfgovernment may be
either a statutory town
(linn), or a village
community
(vald),to
which
nevertheless
may belong
towns
(linn), market- towns
(alev), townlets (alevik)
and villages (küla).
The regions are units
of the state administration. The executive organ of the state power in the region
is the regional board of representatives (maavalitsus) and at the head of them is
a district administrator (maavan), whom designates into his function the
government of the Estonianb republic.
In the statutary towns and villages is a responsible body of power the board of
representation (volikogu, in the cities
linnavolikogu and in the villages
vallavolikogu), which is elected in a secret voting in the direct and general
elections for the functional period of four years.. The executive organ of the
board of representation is so called city or municipal government (valitsus,
resp. linnavalitsus or vallavalitsus) in whose head stands the mayor (in the
cities linnavan or linnapea, in t he villages vallavan).
Currency: Estonian crown
Languages: Estonian 85%
Structure of inhabitants: 68,4 % Estonians, 25,7 % Russians, 2,1 % Ukrainians
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TARTU
Tartu (earlier better known
under the German and Swedish
name Dorpat, or
Region
Tartumaa
Mayor
Urmas Kruuse
under the Russian names
Дерпт (Dierpth) or Юрьев
Area
38,8 km²
(Yuriev), or also with an aid of
Latin- and of ancient Slavic
Number of inhabitants 101 297 (2004)
languages
created
name
Tarbat) is the second biggest
city in Estonia.. In 2004 here
Density of population
2 610,7 inh./km²
were living 101 297 inhabitants.
Unlike of the Estonian political
and financial centre Tallinn is Tartu frequently being considered the centre of
education and culture. In the city is seating the oldest and the most famous
Estonian university. The city is situated in the inland of Estonia, approximately
180 km to the southwest from Tallinn and it is considered the centre of the whole
southwestern Estonia.. Through the city flows the river Emajõgi, which is
connecting two largerst Estonian lakes.
HISTORY
Archeological findings are dating back the first settlement in the Tartu region to
the 5th century AD. From the 7.th century was proved the existence of a
wooden fortification on the eastern side of the central hill called Toomemägi. The
first written mention, referring to that estate, appeared in 1030 in the chronicles of
the Kiev Russia. In that year the Kiew duke Yaroslav the I.st , called the Wise,
burned out the original wooden fortress of the Estons named Tarbatu and built on
its place a stone fortress, which was named Yuriew. This fortress became the
Russian base point in the region named Ugandi and the centre of taxes
collecting as well .The Estons and the Russians were also further waging
frequent fights for this strategically important point, during which the fortress
changed its owner for several times.. In 1061 was Yuriew as to the preserved
recordings burnt out by the Estons (in Russian sources they are being named as
Čuď- English pronounciation would be like Chudh).
In 1224 was Yuriew conquered by the Order of Sword Brothers, who were
expanding in the eastern side of the Baltic region. The original ancient Estonian
name of the city -Tarbatu –was in German transformed as Dorpat, or Derpt.
Under the reign of the crusaders became Tartu in the late medieval age an
important trade centre. It was member of the Hansa and seat of the bishoprie.
Similarly like in the whole former Livonia was the city elite mostly German..
These so called ´literati´ were dominating the city culture, religion life, e ducational
systém and policy as long as u ntil the end o f the 19. century. Many, if not the
most of the students were of the German origin and as much as 90% of the
teachers of the Tarbatuan schools as well..
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In the 16 th century passed Livonia including Tartu under the Polish reign. In
1583 was in the city established a Jesuit academic grammar school. Except that
was in Tartu established also a translating seminary and the city received from
the Polish king Stephan Bathory its red and white flag. When the Swedish-Polish
war burst out, the academical activity of the grammar school and seminary was
in
1601 temporarily ceased. Poland was defeated and Tartu came under the
Swedish reign. The activity of the academic grammar school was renewed in
1630 and as early as in 1632 was the grammar school thanks to the edict of
the Swedish king Gustav Adolf the II nd changed into University.
After signing the Nystad agreement in 1721 the city passed under the reign of the
Tsarist Russia and since that time was also renamed by a Russian modification
of its former German name- Dierpt. During the 18.th century became many of the
medieval memorable burnings sacrifices of fires and the city was renewed in the
late Baroque and in the neo- Classicist style. During the second half of the 19th
century, in the era of National Revival, became Tartu the significant Estonian
cultural centre. The city was in 1869 the scene of the First Estonian General
Singing Feast (Esimene eesti üldlaulupidu). In 1870 there was established a
theatre named Vanemuine, the first theatre playing in Estonian, and in 1872
gathered here also the establishing assembly of the Estonian Union of Writers.
In 1893 in the framework of the intensification of the Tsarist policy of Russification
the city oficially returned to its older Russian name Yuriew. In 1895 was even
changed the main teaching University language to Russian. But the political
representatives of the Estonians used the chaos on the end of the World War I in
favour of declaration of the independent Estonian Republic.in 1918. The Soviet
Russia tried thereafter to reverse this development by an invasion, but eventually
it was defeated in the Estonian Liberation War and on February the 2nd, 1920
signed Russia in Tartu a peace agreement with Estonia in which forever gave up
all its territorial demands towards Estonia.
The russified University was moved away from Tartu to Voroněž in 1918, but as
early as in 1919 was in Tartu renewed University teaching and the teaching
language became again Estonian. At the same time became the official city´s
name its contemporary Estonian name Tartu (created from shortening of the
original name Tarbatu).
Soviet Union violated in 1940 the Tartu peace agreement by its new invasion to
Estonia, ,to whom the young Republic succumbed.. After a short intermezzo of a
Nazi ocupation came back into the country including Tartu the Soviet occupants.
The city suffered during the war severe damages. Destroyed was for instance the
historical stone bridge (Kivisild) over the river Ema,built in the years 1776-1778;
the bridge was at first partially destroyed by the retreating Russian Army in 1941
and its doom was
completed during the fights in 1944. During the Soviet
occupation was Tartu a forbidden city for the foreigners, because on its suburb
was located an important Soviet military Air Force base (at present is on the
former runways a large car- bazaar). During that time the number of the
inhabitants almost doubled from the former 57 000 to more than 100 000.
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After the independence renewal in 1991 Tartu became again an intellectual and
cultural centre. Of the Estonian Republic.The whole city centre, including the
University, passed through a large reconstruction which has helped Tartu to
renew its former beauty.
The city is mainly a domicile of a significant University,founded by the Swedish
king Gustav. Adolf the II nd in 1632. In Tartu is also a seat of the Estonian
Agricultural University, Baltic Military Academy, and the Estonian Ministry of
Schools and Research. Its seat in the city has also the Highest Estonian Court,
renewed in 1993, and the Estonian National Archive..
MEMORABLE SITES AND BUILDINGS
The majority of the memorable buildings in the historical city centre are dated
back to the era before gaining independence, when the upper and middle
classes were being created mainly by the German speaking inhabitants.
•
Luteran St.John´s Church (in German Johanneskirche, in Estonian
Jaani kirik), the Town Hall from the 18th century, the University buildings,
the remnants of the Cathedral from the 13th century, the Botanical
garden, the main shopping avenue and the buildings in the environs of
the Town Hall Square.
•
on the suburbs is prevailing the typical Soviet architecture from the period
of the occupation between the years 1944-1991. In recent years have
been built even in the centre several high buildings from „ glass, concrete
and steel“, but in spite of these changes the centre was still able to
preserve its historical character.
Considering the fact that Tartu is an university city, is the local night life relatively
rich. There can be found a lot of bars, restaurants and night clubs. Touristically
most attractive are The Wilde´s Irish pub and The Powder magazine.
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MTÜ TARTU KATOLIKU KOOL
Jakobi 41, 510 06 Tartu
www.katoliku.edu.ee
Contact person: Liivi Löhmus
ABOUT US
Beginnings of Church school in Tartu dates
back to 1938 when this place Franciscan
sisters arrived from Czechoslovakia. They
are initially set up a kindergarten, which
was closed during Soviet occupation in
1940. In 1991, members Catholic parish of
Tartu
founded
an
educational
establishment which has had as main
target to learn its pupils to know values of
church and modern democratic society.
The school started its work well
th
September, 9 1993. The first class was
opened in Autumn 1994. At this time, an
elementary school was founded in addition
to kindergarten
Currently
the
school
operates
a
kindergarten,
pre-prep,
elementary school and a
center for leisure activities.
There are about 350
children per year altogether
and 150 children are
involved in leisure activities.
Parents
participate
in
various events and they do
it very actively. The main
objectives are to harmonize
school, home and churche,
equable development of
intellectual and spiritual
sites and teaching of
foreign languages, especially English. Native speaker is employed in the school.
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The school has three buildings and it is going to open a high school in 2015.
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MAARJA KÜLA
Riia 185, Tartu 51014
www.maarjakyla.ee
Contact person: Huko Laanoja
ABOUT US
Maarja Küla is a village for Adult with special needs. Since the law on the
obligation to educate children with special needs applies in Estonia, the
promoters of project as village Maarija Küla more easily win support. Parents of
children with special needs founded a school for the first group of students. It was
1992-94 and it had originally capacity 10 students. Foundation was established
and the parents had become its members. They then bought land on which the
village stands today. Since 2004, the Foundation has also started to employ
assistants for the care of disabled people. At present, the organization has behind
about 70 projects, of which the construction of the building gradually realized.
32 persons with special educational needs (learning disabilities) are living in a
village now. Local school owns sheltered workshops where people learn in
various crafts. In 2007, horticulture and the care of the house extended the
possibility of training courses on. There are the first 3 graduates.
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10 teachers teach at the school, 7 other employers lead a workshops and 20
people is responsible for buildings. A large part of the cooperation is based on
working with volunteers. This whole project has its own philosophy: Residents
should learn to act independently in everyday life and be able to do it without
assistants' support. The hierarchical principle is not applicable here, everyone has
the right freely to express and speak up running all over the institution. In any
case, there is no effort on the segregation of individuals. Conversely, the
organizers are very appealing for the implementation of the individual in society.
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MTÜ TARTU KRISTLIK NOORTEKODU
Era 2, 510 10 Tartu
www.tkn.ee
ABOUT US
This one was founded in 1995 and is operated by nonprofit organization. The
building is the property of the organization of blind in Tartu. Non-profit
organization that operates the facility, was founded ten years ago. Home is not
the type of family care. Children are divided into groups by age and interests. It's
a classic children's home.
Flagship program for the children's home are three types of activities. Home
primarily provides care of children who have no parents or parents don't care
about them. Day center, where children develop normal activities, is available to
these children. Operation of the orphanage which children attend to the end of
high school, is another major activity. Some of them then go on to college.
Children's Home has supported housing, so that children can learn how normal
society works. Residents have the opportunity to try to stand on its own two feet.
The last and equally important part of the activities is tutoring, where certain
elements of culture and its values are communicated to children in the home
environment. Leisure activities in an orphanage: choir, music lessons and dance
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classes. There was
cultural events.
founded a cultural association which organizes regular
The home of 55 children living at present, of which 25 live in home and 14 in
another house, rest in sheltered housing. The age range of children: 7-17. They
can remain in sheltered housing until graduation (25 year).
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TARTU EMAJÖE KOOL
Vabaduse pst 9, 510 04 Tartu
www.tek.tartu.ee
Contact person: Anne Köiu
ABOUT US
School Emajöe in Tartu is the elementary and secondary school for the visually
handicapped. School derives its name from the local river. It is the only one public
school in Estonia, which is dedicated to the visually impaired. Curriculum consists
of three programs, which are then divided according to various degrees of
intensity (according to national curriculum for normal primary schools, simplified
for the visually impaired and for people with mental handicap). 35 teachers teach
61 students, 12 of them are completely blind. Each class usually consists of 5-6
students.At school, however, does not only teachers, team includes
psychologists, special educators and project managers. Pupils are admitted on
the recommendation of counseling center, and they need a medical certificate as
well. The school organizes a rehabilitation program as well. The school also has
30 accommodation places, now fully recovered.
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The school is primarily trying to contribute to the integration of blind and visually
impaired children. Currently, several graduates continuing their studies at
university. The school strives to create a functional cooperation at three levels personal, institutional and international. According to Estonian law, each child has
the right to education in the school nearest his home, including the visually
impaired pupils. School in Tart provides counseling for parents of visually impaired
children who are integrated under this Act within mainstream schools. Students
can also use any of the practical courses such as wood carving, pottery or
weaving. School and Rehabilitation Center is funded from the resources of the
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Social Affairs.
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WELFARE SERVICE OF SENIORS AND DISABLED PERSONS
Raekoja plats 3, 510 03 Tartu
www.tartu.ee
Contact person: Indrek Sooniste
ABOUT US
The institution is not only for elderly but also disabled people who are clients. The
building was built a full 30 years,
the last wing was built in 2009. It
consists of three interconnected
buildings. Clients have all the
possible
services
including
hairdressing, massage, laundry
and even the salt cave. The
institution has 177 clients and
employs 114 staff.
The institution also operates an
emergency care which is important
to support seniors in their natural
environment. The aim of this
service is to support seniors in their
homes, provide them services that
facilitate their lives at home and at
the same time so naturally reduce
the number of people in nursing
homes. It is not only the delivery of
food, but also as the already
mentioned laundry. Home owner is
the city. The institution also works
with other homes for the elderly, but
most of them with the home in
Tallinn.
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TALLIN
Tallinn (in Czech rarely
also
Tallin or Talin, formerly also Revel,
in German
formerly Reval, in Swedish
formerly Lindanäs) is the capital of
Estonia and a harbour on the
southern coast of the Finnish Bay
of the Baltic Sea. .
THE HISTORY OF TALLIN
Region
Harjumaa
Mayor
Edgar Savisaar
Area
159,2 km²
Number of
inhabitants
400 911 (2007)
Density of
population
2 518,3
inh../km²
The archeological
findings are
proving, that the territory of Tallinn was relatively densely inhabited as early as
since the beginning of the Iron Age,, it means already in the early part of the 1.st
millenium B.C. At the latest time in the 10. century was in the centre of the
contemporatry Tallin formed a seat of an early urban type. The findings of the
Byzantian, German and Anglo – Saxon coins from the 10th. – 12th century are
proving, that the city was .a significant harbour and a strong trade centre .
The oldest historical mention of Tallin is the description of Estonia from the
Arabian geographer Al-Idrísí from the year 1154, in which appears also a fortified
settlement named Qaliwani; but in accordance with several historiographers is
probable, that in his description appeared a mistake and th at Tallin is in fact
described there as „ a blossoming city“ called Anhil, whereas Qaliwani is identical
with the fortified settlement Hanila. Tallin probably as early as at those times
composed of the castle on the hill named Toompea and from the „lower town“,it
means a market place- housing estate under the castle, where were as early as
in the first years of the 13.th century standing Christian churches.
Another historical mention of Tallin originates in the chronicle of Henry the
Latvian and it concerns its being conquered and destroyed by the Danish king
Valdemar II in 1219. On the place of the former Estonian castle the Danish king
ordered to build up a fortification, in the beginning only a wooden one, what is
proved by the descriptions of the attacks from the years 1221 and 1223, in which
the Estonians tried to re-conquer Tallin back.
The Danes lost the city in 1227 after their defeat in the battle by Bornhøved in
favour of the Order of the Sword brothers. The experienced builders from that
Order built up during the following two years on the hill named Toompea at first
not very big, but from the military point of view a modern stone castle. But after a
diplomatical pressure from the side of the Pope had the Sword Order to pass the
Northern Estonia includuing Tallinn in 1238 again on Danemark. The Danish king
as early as in the same year gave the city the basic city privileges, and in 1248
the city received full city privileges in accordance with the model of the German
Hansa city Lubeck .
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The trade- and harbour seat, quickly growing up on the place of the former
market place- housing estate was in 1265 administratively detached from the
royal castle and it became an independent medieval city in the full sense of this
word.. In the same year was started building of the new city´s fortification,
whereas the Danes began to rebuilt the castle into one of the biggest fortresses at
that time with the fortification walls of the total length 2,5 km and as much as 16
m high with 45 bastions. In 1285 became Revalia the northernest member of
the Hansa (very economically important German medieval association of port
cities). When in 1346 Danemark, weakened by the mutiny in the day of St
.George, sells its Estonian possessions to the Order of the German Knights, and
they for their reciprocal services shortly entrusted them to the Livonian order,
meant it another enlarging and rebuilding of the independently managered
castkle, but the life of the lower city wasn´t influenced by this fact almost at all.
During its Hansa year experiences Talinn its greatest heyday. Most of the
contemporarily appreciated memorable buildings of the Tallin´s Old Town are
dated back just from this era.. As to the number of the inhabitanmts Tallinn
becomes one of the biggest cities in northern Europe. In 1525 the town accepts
the Lutheran reformation.
The progress of the Protestant reformation considerably weakened the power of
the Livonian Order in the Baltic region and for the possessions, hitherto owned by
the Order, began to compete the
neighbouring powers — Russia, Sweden,
Danemark and Poland. In 1558 bursts out the Livonian war which thereafter
torments the country for 25 years.. In 1561 the Tallinn councillors voluntarily
submit to the power of the Swedish king, who promises them to preserve the
city´s privileges. Swedens are then governing in the whole northern Estonia, but
as early as in 1569 are the attacking Danes bombarding Tallinn with their
artillery, on the break of years 1570 and 1571 is the city and its environs being
besieged by the Russians. Another devastating Russian attempt at the conquest
of the city came about in 1577. Only as late as in 1583 comes on the peace
under the Swedish reign .
The parallel decline of the Hansa means the gradual change of Tallinn from the
metropolis of North to the provincional centre of the Swedish government. But the
Swedens are actively engaging themselves in the development of education and
technology. In 1631 they are founding the first grammar school in the city and in
1635 the printing house, which prints also the books in Estonian language. On the
building face of the city is the Swedish period displaying mainly by building of a
ring of the bastions around the city on the end of the 17th century and by the
development of the suburbs from which became the contemporary city quarters
Kalamaja, Tõnismäe, Köismäe, Jaani and others..
The Russion Orthodox church of Alexander Něvsky. In 1700 bursts out a severe
and devastating Northern war, in which Russia struggles to snatch away from the
Swedens the reign over the Baltic region. After the beginning of a Russian attack
against Tallin and burning out a part of the city are the Tallinn city fathers giving
themselves up to the Russians in September 1710 .The war altogether with a
plague epidemy ceases the decrease of the Tallinn inhabitants to the mere one
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tenth of the pre-war state. Only as late as on the end of the 18th century the city
recovers from the results of the Russian invasion and achieves the greatness
which it had before the war. And its growth continues fluently, so that in 1917
there lives around 160 000 inhabitants. The Russian era signs itself on the face
of the city by several significant buildings, out of which the most famous one is the
Tsarist palace in the Catherine´s valley, which was during its building up situated
outside of the city, on the eastern edge of the contemporary city quarter Kesklinn.
The Russian reign ended up with the declaration of Estonian independence in
1918. Tallinn was declared the capital of the Estonian republic. During the
following Estonian liberation war was the city in the beginning of the year 1919
endangered, but the Russian army did not enter it already. The events of war and
the following penury led towards the decrease of the number of inhabitants of
Tallinn approximately by one third in comparison with the year 1917. But after
1920 the city began to re-grow both through enlarging the suburbs and through
condensing of the housing on the so far urbanized territory. Into the city were also
included some of the former independent villages in its environs and in 1940
even the city named Nõmme.
Struggles for Tallinn in1941. But just in the above mentioned year comes on the
Soviet occupation of Estonia ,then another occupation by a Nazi Germany and in
1944 the Soviets returned to power. The damage of the city and its memorable
buildings during the World War II fortunately wasn´t as massive as in the
cases of some another Estonian cities; the worst damage was caused by a
massive Soviet air-raid in March 1944.
After the re-occupation of the city by the Soviet Army on September the 23rd,
1944 Tallinn became de facto again the capital of the Estonian Soviet Socialist
Republic. The growth of the city was accelerated by building up of large panel
housing estates and by the directed immigration of the native Russian speakers
from another areas of Soviet Union. From less than 130 thousands on the end of
the war the number of the inhabitants grew until 1956 to 267 and until 1976 even
to 408 thousands, out of which the ethnical Russians created more than one half..
Moreover, in 1960 was the city of Saue united with Tallinn and in 1963 the city of
Maardu as well. On the face of the city was the Soviet period signed except the
new circle of housing estates, encircling the old city (Mustamäe, Lasnamäe,
Õismäe) also by some individual urbanistically controversional projects (the City
Hall in the harbour, the skyscraper of the hotel Viru etc.).
A considerable change both for the life and for the sight of the city was the
renewal of the Estonian independence in 1991. Tallinn became again the capital
of the sovereign Estonian Republic. The first conspicuous result was relatively
large decline of the number of inhabitants (from almost 500 thousands to less
than 400 thousands), caused mainly by the withdrawal of some parts of the
Russian speaking inhabitants into Russia, partly also by regaining independence
of some city estates (Saue, Maardu). Arm in arm altogether with these changes
was changing the national structure of the inhabitants as well, so that on April
the 1st was in Tallinn already 53,7 % of Estonians and only 36,5% of Russians.
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SCHOOL IN TALLINN
Vene 22, 101 23 Tallinn
www.vhk.ee
Contact person: Kersti Nigesen
ABOUT US
Gymnasium in Tallinn has a basic education, kindergarten, theater school, and of
course high school. The institution owns 8 buildings. The institution was founded
by parents' associations in 1985 and the pupils were children of the teachers.
Parents' association is called the Society of St. Michael. The school was originally
a non-governmental, it is under state administration now. Premises by the school
themselves will determine its development, locality was originally the Dominican
monastery.
The main idea of this
whole school is to
reveal the individual
needs of pupils, to
show them Christian
values and offer them
new opportunities and
spiritual development.
They are also dealing
with
children
with
special needs, but also
provide
dormitory
space and they are
trying to somehow
develop a cultural life.
Another feature is a
program to support
and develop parenting
skills
for
single
mothers. In school, are
studying
1,000
children
and
200
teachers
working,
including 80 teachers
teaches
music
lessons.
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SWEDEN
Sweden is administratively divided into
289 communities (municipalities).Each
community has its own elected
community council, the executive body
is an executive committee. Into the
executive of the community falls a lot of
areas, like building of flats, building,
care and maintenance of the local
roads (highways and state roads
belong to the state executiveVägverket),providing
with
water,sewerage, elementary schools,
social care, care for youth etc. The
communities possess the right to
collect the income taxes and the real
property taxes, they also determine the
level of fees for different services.They
assure the public services for which
they receive appropriations from the
state.
The intermediate stage between the
state and municipal administrations
create the regions (in Swedish
"län").There is 21 of them.The state
power in the regions is being
represented
by
the
district
administrator (landshövding). The district administrators are appointed by the
government for a 6 years period.. They are mostly recruited from among the
politicians, but after their appointment they usually abandon the political scene.
The most important executive body of the regional administration are the regional
boards of administration,at whose head stands the district administrator. Their
members are appointed by the regional council, which is an elected body. The
regional administrations are responsible mostly for the health care including
supporting the hospital services, and further they are responsible for some kinds
of education and for the specialized school systém.
Currency: Swedish crown
Language: Sweden (93%)
Structure of the inhabitants: Sweden (90%), autonomous Finns (2%), Laplanders
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STOCKHOLM
Stockholm [stokholm] (in Latin
County
Stockholm
Holmia) is the capital and also the
biggest town
Mayor
Sten Nordin
both of Sweden and of the region
Area
377.30 km²
Stockholm.(Stockholms
Län).
Stockholm is located on the
Number of
eastern coast between the lake
786 509
inhabitants
Mälaren and the Baltic Sea.The
number
of
its
inhabitants
Density of
2086/km2
moderately grew from 670 000
population
(1990) to 761 721 (2004).
Stockholm is an important trade
and industrial centre of Sweden. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish
government and Parliament and also of the head of the state- of the King.
HISTORY
The first written mention dates back from the year 1252, when Stockholm was an
important market place with the iron, coming from the iron ore mines in
Bergslagen. Allegedly it was founded by the jarl (=duke) Birger in order to defend
the city of Sigtuna on the lake Mälaren against the raids from the sea and
ransacking. Therefore the first building there was a fortress, watching the pathway
between the Baltic Sea and the lake Mälaren. At this place were built up some
defense facilities from the tree stems (in Swedish:stock) can be found a lot of
minor islands (in Swedish:holme) – out of that probably arose the name of the
city Stockholm. Since 1523 is Stockholm the capital of Sweden..
Stockholm, more exactly the foundation of the contemporary Old Town (Gamla
Stan), was built up on the central island beside Helgeandsholmen in the 13.th
century. Between the years 1296 to 1478 was in Stockholm working the city
council with 24 members, out of which was one half chosen from the German
speaking burghers. Stockholm gained its strategical and economical importance
during its relationships with the Danish king, when the city entered to the socalled Kalmar Union in the 15.th century. The Danish King Christian the II nd
entered the city in 1520. On November the 8.th, 1520 burst out in Stockholm a
bloody massacre and some other uprisings which eventually led towards
decomposition of the Kalmar Union.. In coherence with the King Gustav Vasa,
who entered the city in 1523 and established there his royal power began the
number of the inhabitants of Stockholm to increase.
In the 17.th century was Sweden with its capital Stockholm the main European
power..Since 1610 to 1680 multiplied the number of its inhabitants six times. In
1634 Stockholm became oficially the capital of the Swedish empire. Stockholm
received also the monopoly on the business with the merchants from abroad
and with others Scandinavian countries. This way the city began to blossom even
more.
In 1710 was Stockholm afflicted by the Black death (plague). After the end of the
Great Northern War was the city stagnating.. The population growth stopped and
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the economical growth slowed. The city was beginning to lose its position of a
power. But still it was keeping its role of the economical centre of Sweden and
furthermore it was developing culturally under the reign of the king Gustav the
IIIrd. But its leading economical role Stockholm regained as late as in the second
half of the 19.th century. New industrial branches arose and Stockholm was
changed into the significant centre of economy and services. Moreover it still
kept its position of the key gate into Sweden.
In the second half of the 20th century Stockholm became a modern,
technologically advanced and ethnically heterogeneous city. Many historical
buildings were demolished, including the whole historical city quarter Clara, and
they were supplied by the modern architecture.The city thereafter expanded
into another districts, like Rinkeby and Tensta.
MEMORABLE SITES AND BUILDINGS
The city centre is situated on fourteen islands and from there it gained its
name.The word ´stock´ might be translated as a log and ´holm´ as a small
island. Although Stockholm is located almost on the south of the country, in
summer is still possible to experience here 18 hours long days and very short
nights, during which the sun almost doesn´t fall behind the horizon..
• Skogskyrkogården – the Forest cemetery..It was designed in such a
way that it reflects all the building styles from the Romanesque to
functionalism. There is also an exhibition, devoted to the origin of the
cemetery and to its builders. The architects Gunnar Asplund and Siguld
Lewerendz used the natural environment around the old cemetery and
changed it into an untrite place, sensitively put into its environs..Out of
the late popular personalities is buried here for instance the actress
Greta Garbo.
• Drottningholm – The Queen´s Island. This is the seat of the Swedish
royal family and a tourist attraction as well . Building this palace was
ordered by the Kingh John the III rd of Sweden with his wife, the queen
Katarina Jagiello from Poland. Relatively shortly after its building up, still
in the 16th century, the palace burnt out, but subsequently was rebuilt
again. Thereafter it has been serving as a seat of the Swedish kings and
queens. In the area of Drottningholm can be found the palace itself, a
theatre, an English parck, a Baroque garden, a church, and a Chinese
pavilion.
• Gamla Stan – the Old Town. As the time was flowing on,in Stockholm
began to manifest more and more the influence of the continental
Europe, mainly of Berlin and Vienna.. Therefore are many buildings from
the 19th century inspired just by these cities and by their architecture.
This is clearly visible for instance on the building of the Royal Opera. The
face of Stockholm was, of course, influenced also by the modern
architecture, especially by the Art Nouveau, functionalism and
subsequently modernism. In that spirit was built up the above mentioned
Forest cemetery, the City Library or the Municipal Theatre..
• In Stockholm can be found an incredible amount of museums. For the
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three quarters of a million inhabitants are here more than seventy
museums. One of the biggest is the National museum with the giant
collection of pictures and artistic objects from the world artists.Besides
the National museum there are countless small expositions, but aslso the
M useum of modern art and Skanzen.
In Stockholm (more exactly in the hall of the Town Hall – Stadshuset) are being
declared every year some of the Nobel Prices. In 1912 there were performed the
Summer Olympic Games. One of the priorities of the new Swedish chairmanship
of the European Union is the reduction of the emissions of the greenhouse
gases. Sweden wants to be an example for the rest of Europe. This is the most
visible phenomenon just in the capital. Thank to its investitions into the ecological
technologies and into the better quality of life Stockholm came in for the title of
the first green metropolis..The systém of supplying with heat is using from 80%
the renewable sources and the city wants to be completely independent on the
fossile fuels until the year 2050.
There is a partial prohibition in Sweden. Systembolaget is the state non-profit
monopoly, selling alcohol. The alcohol beverages may be being sold in the usual
shops only if they contain 3.5% of the pure alcohol or less.. All other alcoholic
beverages can be bought only in the Systembolaget. Similarly like in Finland are
also here very popular the (slightly alcoholic) ciders, which are containing cca
2.5% of alcohol.. The tins are returnable and the plastic bottles as well. Like in
Estonia is in Sweden also forbidden to consume alcohol on public places, except
some places reserved for this purpose.
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FRYSHUSET
Märtensdalgstan 2-8/Box 92022, 120 06 Stockholm
www.fryshuset.se
Contact person: Ivar Forstadius
ABOUT US
Vision of the organization is to be something more than just a building. This idea
is based on the belief that humanity and justice can be achieved only through
commitment, encouragement, healthy self-confidence and enthusiasm that comes
from everyday life experiences and encounters. Fryshuset offers a lot of activities
and meetings with people throughout the community. Fryshuset Foundation is
managed by the YMCA. Fryshuset was founded in 1984 on the initiative of the
Stockholm branch of the YMCA and a few enthusiastic people. One of them was
the "father of the founder" - Anders Carlberg. Organization initially housed in an
old warehouse (the word Fryshuset means in Swedish frozen food warehouse),
2)
in 1994, it moved to larger premises (24 000 m . Various activities are financed
by a combination of grants, fees and sponsorships. Fryshuset has 350 employees
and it is monthly visited by about 40,000 people.
At the beginning,
the
organization
focused primarily on
sport and music.
Over time young
people have begun
to transform the
place
social
involvement grew
as a reaction to
general needs of
society.
Organization
is
known for its social
work,
and
for
educational
programs,
sports
activities such as
skateboarding and basketball, and work in the field of music. Fryshuset has its
own secondary school with 900 students, training programs and programs of the
theater, sports, culture, concerts and discos, organizes lectures and discussions.
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Fryshuset even has its own priest. The current form of organization is the result of
continuous process. Fryshuset activities can be divided into three field: social
projects, education and leisure activities.
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VARA
On a giant plain in the middle of
the Västergötland
county is
situated a town
named Vara in the environemnt of
the old cultural traditions and of
the historically interesting people,
who were here living and working,
incvluding the King Stenkil, who
was living still in Levenn.
County
Västra Götaland
Mayor
Sten Nordin
Area
Number of
inhabitants
Density of
population
701 km2
17000
1,289/km2
The contemporary community of
Vara consists from as many as 24
former villages. Each of them arose in 1863 and was equivalent to the given
parish. The city was founded in 1894 by separation from the former country
village..
In 1952 came about integration and division of the cities in the following way:
Kvänum (former communities Edsvära, Fyrunga, Jung, Kvänum, Northern and
Öttum Vanga), Larva (Larva, Längjum and chimneys), Levene (into Levene, Long,
Slädene and Sparlösa) , Rýda (from Hällum, Naum, Rýda, Skar City, Southern
Kedum and Onum) and Vedum (bitter, Eling, soft-Vedum and southern Lundby),
where we see that there were created 5 big centres. But Vara remained
unchanged. Agriculture still creates a significant part of the local economy, but
there is also a successful industrial world. In Vara can be found more than 700
enterprises (here we mean in the whole region, not just directly in the city of
Vara). For these, who want to join a good work with a valuable free time Vara
offers a lo t o f possibilities..To the associations in our community - altogether
there are some 400 of them-belong for instance our successful rock and roll
dancers or lovers of motorbikes. There is a pressure in most of the communities
to develop an activity in these or those projects or associations.
.
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STATENS INSTITUTIONS STYRENE - MARGRETELUND SIS
Wennerbergsvägen 28, 531 38 Lidköping
www.stat-inst.se
Contact person: Peter Gustafsson
ABOUT US
Swedish National Organization for institutional care is currently one of the most
important branches of work with criminal youth. The first such home was
established in 1887. Today, the organization manages 47 houses for young
people who have problems with crime, drugs, or are disadvantaged starting
conditions of the original family. This route is one possibility that these young
people can not get into jail. Margretelund in Lidköping is one of those homes.
The area is located on the outskirts of town. There are four accommodation units
that hold up to 25 clients. Current state are 17 boys. Each of the newcomers must
pass a two-month analysis, whereby an individual plan is created. Everyone has
some obligations to be fulfilled - compulsory school attendance, work in the
workshop. Some even have the chance to work off-campus. The area seems to
be open from outside, but on the contrary, security measures have a better level
than elsewhere. Basic and the main objective of the home is to combine three
elements: social skills, anger control, development of moral and ethical
sensibilities. Inmates learn these skills in order to take part in a daily life.
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SOCKERBRUKET
Sockerbruksgatan 1, 531 40 Lidköping
www.lidkoping.se
Contact person: Andreas Hansen
ABOUT US
Sockerbruket is
an organization
that focuses on
recreational
activities
for
youth from 12 to
25 years. This
center
was
created by local
governments as
an opportunity for
leisure.
The
original premises
were a factory for
the production of
sugar. The form
of the center
reflects
the
wishes and needs of groups of young people who attend the center.
The aim of this organization
is that young people spend
time positively, while giving
them facilities and new
opportunities, which they
would normally have no
access. Center occupies the
entire building. Skatepark,
which was built exactly to
young clients, occupies the
lower part of the building.
Another floor is reserved for
doing selected activities such
as video editing, sound
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recording room, studio, or room for artistic creation. On the top floor, we find
opportunities for sports and social rooms for youth meetings. Centre doesn't lack
even such a thing as Web radio. Children are registered and the center is
completely free, including all activities. The organization is trying to devote time to
the organization of various festivals, concerts and social evenings. Volunteers
také part in organizing of these activities with a substantial level.
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GYMNASIUM DE LA GARDIE
Stenportsgatan 21, 531 50 Lidköping
www.lidkoping.se
Contact person: Hans Henriksen
ABOUT US
High School De La
Guradie is situated in
center of city Lidköping.
About 2100 students
attend the school. The
building
was
reconstructed two years
ago, so its modern
facilities attract students
from miles around. At
school, children are
taught according to five
different methods aimed
at target groups.
One
of
those
departments
dealing
with handicapped children, there are 53 such children. Handicapped children are
studying a year
longer to absorb
all
relevant
information. There
are children with
mild
disabilities
with an IQ over 70
and children with
multiple
disabilities. They
learn how to cope
with basic daily
living skills, and
communicate with
their
assistants
with icons. The
group with mild
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disabilities can then choose to either work with wood or work in hotel, catering or
aesthetic program. One of the five groups are divided into seven subgroups:
There are individual programs for students, such as migrant children, young
people with conduct disorder, children with mild disabilities, etc. They also
address those who are not interested in school. The program aspires to return
children to the national education while giving them increased confidence and
opportunities to learn.
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FREJA
Frejagatan 6, 521 41 Falköping
www.falkoping.se
Contact person: Göran Pettersson
ABOUT US
Freja organization, which occupies an important place in the daily activities of
disabled people in Falköping was based 1972. In 1986, the organization acquired
a new facility, where it is today.
Since 1990, the organization has set new rules, which correspond to the Swedish
law LSS.
It gives disabled persons the right to a full life, including leisure and for that
reason, the center aims to meet the needs of its clients in full. The Act does not
apply only to people with severe disabilities, but on a lighter handicaps, and
therefore one of the other goals is to reduce unemployment and prepare clients
for some professions.
The
programs
are
designed to be not
stereotypical for clients,
so
each
client
is
engaged
in
several
activities
during
the
week.
The
main
objective is to meet the
individual needs of each
client. In addition to
space in the Freja center
that
are
regularly
available,
the
organization owns a
small farm outside the
city, where clients can
learn to care for animals. Center also cooperates with local companies that
employ its clients such as packaging of goods. In the center is then possible to
use color therapy or advisor to career choices.
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SUNT LIV
Frejagatan 6, 521 41 Falköping
www.falkoping.se
Contact person: Barbro Skoglund
ABOUT US
This program (Healthy Life) is a project designed specifically for young people
with intellectual disabilities who live in Falköping in Sweden. The program lasts for
three years and they talks about an extension for its success. The basic effort is
to teach these people the principles of healthy nutrition, but also help them
become independent. Healthy eating is not the only element of this project, but
also the shopping and cooking school.
The group meets three days a week and learn together to eat, cook and play
sports.Members have a gym and fitness, but promoters are trying to take the
group into the wild, where they can pay far more interesting activities. What is
Sunt Liv for the actual organizers? „We learn good habits in relation to healthy
eating, physical activity and talk about healthy living.“ Organizators wishing to
clients learned teamwork and enjoyed the fun.
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VARA FOLK HIGH SCHOOL
Torggatan 41, 534 23 Vara
www.vara.fhsk.se
Contact person: Annika Jansson
ABOUT US
The school was established in 1915 as an agricultural school but has developed
into a free democratic centre for adult education. The central function of the
school is to give adults who have not completed their primary and/or secondary
schooling a second chance. We are proud to see that many of our students who
were considered “failures” have gone on to university studies and successful
careers. But we are equally proud of the students who have made personal
developments and taken charge of their own lives. We practise a pedagogy which
sees to the whole person and puts emphasis on the social, emotional as well as
the theoretical. The curriculum centres around four courses:
Primary and secondary school redemption
This course ranges from one to three years depending on the students starting
point. In a person centred pedagogy the adults retake the subjects that they didn’t
pass or dropped out of (for any number of reasons) as children/ teenagers. At the
end of a successful course the student has a qualification equal to secondary
school and is eligible for
university studies.
Course for adults with
special needs
This course which also
ranges from one to three
years is intended for adults
with
a
mild
mental
handicap. The aim is to
increase
their
independence and increase
their possibilities to a rich
and meaningful life. Many
of our students have either
lived at home or in
institutions and a goal is that they can move to their own apartments (with of
course the necessary aid help which they have a legal right to). Another important
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goal of this course is the integration of the students with society.
Professional course in youth work, a leader education
This is a two year third level course designed to give the necessary competence
to work within the field of youth work. The education was originally devised as a
training course for professionals within the state run and financed “Free time
centres”. These centres offer youth (especially marginalised) a place of refuge;
getting them off the street and promoting meaningful recreation. These clubs
often have room where bands can practice and even record music, pool tables,
internet and organise drug free discos and other activities. In recent years many
of our students have found employment within the secondary school system
working socially with the pupils, preventing harassment and mobbing/bullying. We
have three profiles on our education, the first being handicap and the second
working with juvenile offenders and the third working with peoples health. All
these fields are also large areas of employment for students from this course.
Radio journalism
A two year third level course for radio journalists. The course is based in
journalism but also gives technical competence. Many of our ex-students are
employed by the Swedish national radio (SR) but also by small independent local
radio stations as the commercial music stations.
Other short-term courses and international cooperation
In addition to these long term permanent courses the school offers a number of
other courses including rehabilitation for long term sick, activation for
unemployed, dynamic democracy courses where citizens and politicians meet
and discuss as well as
further
education
for
different professions within
our competence bracket.
We
have
recently
completed for the second
time a student exchange
program with Zambia and
are participating in a
Grundtwig programme with
partner
institutions
in
Denmark, Portugal, Latvia
and Romania.
Personnel
We have a staff of about
forty-five people, including
20 teachers, economic assistant, secretary, porters, cleaners, cooks)
The school also has a full kitchen staff and accommodation for 60 students.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR WORK WITH YOUTH FROM CITY
BORÄS
Borås Stad, 501 80 Borås
www.boras.se
Contact person: Henrik Wettervik
ABOUT US
Boras City currently has
approximately 100 thousand
inhabitants.
The
main
industrial activity is textile
manufacturing.
There are
many sporting clubs but
unfortunately, the high juvenile
delinquency. The city has the
biggest problems with drug
dealers and alcohol among
adolescents.
Police group, which deals with
young people, currently has 6
employees. They deal with
young people from 14 to 20
years in particular. They have
several groups that specialize
in specific crimes and criminal
activities. They use new
methods of social networking,
which means that their main
area are the Internet and
social networks, where they try
to uncover crimes. It is still
possible on the Internet to sell
drugs with other than the prohibited composition. Also, dealers are often disagree
among themselves about their areas. goal is to detect crime and to report it to
social workers, who also decide what to do with the young deliquent.
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SISU - IDROTTSUTBILDARNA
Katrinedalsgatan 14, 504 51 Boräs
w ww.sisuidrottsubildarna.se/vastergotland
Contact person: Mats Persson
ABOUT US
SISU is an organization
that is engaged in the
sport activities in Sweden.
Organization seeks to
bring together teams and
create an environment for
the development of sports
activities and the people
of Sweden leads to a
better life. They have aim
not only to help sports
clubs, but also their
networking, promoting a
healthy
lifestyle,
understanding
the
relationship between the
individual and team, training and support for leaders and trainers.
Organization that deals with promoting employment for disadvantaged groups, is
working both with the team, and with individuals. It is not only trying to coordinate
leisure, but also to combine with work and family, which is just unique. There is a
motto that everyone can be good at something, and therefore the organization
employs disabled people, who thus have the opportunity to learn new things and
be integrated into the work process. IGU project, running since 2004, was
originally planned only for one year, but given the success it takes yet.
Participants in this project fall under the law of LSS, which has already been
mentioned. Currently the project for the city of Boras works with twenty clients
aged 20-46 years.
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ELFESBERG
Älgärdsvägen 32, 506 30 Boräs
www.elfsborg.se
Contact person: Göran Lohne
ABOUT US
This sports club
was established in
1904. It's a typical
Swedish
football
club,
which
graduated
65
seasons during its
103 year history. In
2001,
the
club
Elfsberg became an
important team and
it is able to draft
players and earned
money to invest in
their
stadia.
In
2005,
the
new
stadium was finally
built after 40 years
of planning. At that time the income is markedly increased by 100%. The club won
the national league six times. The club currently has 3300 members.
The club tries to attract young players aged 16-19. The club provides them with
quality training, but also school and accommodation. The club holds (except for
football games, including the National League), various football camps and events
for sponsors. They play about 35 games during the season. The main principle is
to maintain security at the stadium, because it brings many spectators to the club.
Currently there is not just a football club but also basketball and hockey ones. The
cornerstone of work with youth is in contact with organizations that deal with
youth, implementing social projects and highlighting the core values of the team.
Credo is to unify the club to such an extent that it was single.
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