Outreach programs:
The outreach programs are designed to assist people whose poverty, unemployment, insufficient qualification or ethnic origin lessen their chances of finding a proper place in society, and who live within the České Budějovice municipality in what is termed the "socially excluded localities".
The outreach programs are conducted in the natural milieu of the service users. Based upon a preliminary agreement, the social workers engaged in the outreach program pay regular visits to the clients, and in most cases give the counsel directly in clients' households. The workers strive primarily to encourage self-sufficiency in the service users and active approach to addressing their own problems.
Offered services
- Information and advice in difficult situations
- Active help in asserting the client's rights
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Help in processing official documents (filling-in forms; writing letters to authorities & institutions; giving assistance in understanding official deeds)
- Accompanying clients and assisting them in handling their affairs; negotiating in their interest
- Help in seeking lodging and employment
- Debt counselling
- Legal counselling
- Information on other social services and other assistance possibilities; arranging for the related services
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Support to families - in cooperation with the Volunteer Center of Diocesan Charity (the DC Center can arrange for a volunteer to come to the client's family and spent leisure with the client's child and help the child prepare for school) - see the link to the DC - the "Chance for All" program
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The social services provided within the outreach program are funded from the CR state budget and by ESF acting through the Operational Programme of Human Resources & Employment.
