SPONDEA, o.p.s.

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SPONDEA, o.p.s.

• Crisis Centre for Children, Adolescents and
  Family
• Intervention Centre for People
  Threatened by Domestic Violence

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SPONDEA, o.p.s.

• SPONDEA is a public service company.
• The aim is to improve life quality of
• children, adolescents, young people and
  people close to them.
• people threatened by domestic violence and
  subsequent victimisation.
• SPONDEA is a provider of social services.
• SPONDEA is charged with social and legal
  
• protection of children.
• All services are free of charge.

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Registered Social Services

• Crisis Help
• Outpatient, residential and outreach forms of
  services
• (2) Social Activation for Families with Children
• Assisted contacts
• Mediation
• Family therapy
• (3) Intervention Centre
• Outpatient, residential (crisis bed) and outreach
  services for people threatened by
  domestic violence
• Counselling e-mail, chat, phone

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Structure of Team

• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Special Education Teacher
• Lawyers
• Crisis Workers

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(1) Crisis Help

• Target Group
• Children, adolescents and young adults up to age
  26 (students)
• in a difficult life situations
• Abuse and neglect,
• Trauma,
• Family with domestic violence,
• Family with divorce issues,
• Non-functional parental styles,
• Loss of friends,
• Problems at school, in relationships,
• with peers, with parents, etc.

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(1) Crisis Help

• Targets
• Immediate help in a crisis,
• Help to return back into common life,
• Continuous help and support
• Resources to achieve a goal
• Nonstop
• Crisis beds (residential part)
• Crisis phone line
• Chat counselling
• E-mail counselling

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(1) Crisis Help

• Outputs for 2011
• 556 clients sought crisis help.
• Clients usually came with issues
• - in personal life,
• - in family,
• - in relationships,
• - of abuse and neglect,
• - at school and
• - with behaviour disorders.
• 72 children stayed at crisis beds.
• The staff provided 1 894 interventions.

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(2) Services for Families with Children

• Target group
• families with children and adolescents up to age
  18
• in difficult life situations
• divorce issues,
• domestic violence,
• problems with communication in family,
• non-functional parental styles,
• traumatized event and
• child abuse and neglect.

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(2) Services for Families with Children

• Provided services
• Outpatient counselling,
• Phone, chat and e-mail counselling,
• Family therapy,
• Mediation,
• Assisted contact of parents with their children
  and
• Outreach services.
• 607 clients sought this services in 2011.
• The staff provided 1 753 interventions.

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(3) Intervention Centre

• Target group
• Persons regardless of age and sex, exposed to
  physical, sexual or economical domestic
  violence in all stages
• Care for threatened person after expulsion of
  violent person from their common household
• Care for threatened people who search the service
  by themselves (without
  expulsion)
• Care for people closed to threatened, relatives
  or witnesses of domestic violence

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(3) Intervention Centre

• Services of the Intervention centre are not
  available for perpetrators of domestic violence.
• All registered services of organisation connect
  the care of threatened persons with care of
  children growing up in families with domestic
  violence.

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(3) Intervention Centre - Goals of help -

• To help threatened persons to ensure their own
  safety and safety for their children
• To mobilize the activity of threatened persons so
  that they will be able to realize next steps
  leading to the life without violence by their own
  forces.
• To develop interdisciplinary cooperation of
  institutions for solution of domestic violence

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(3) Specific approaches

• Women
• Men
• Seniors and disabled people
• Children
• People from different socio-cultural environment
  (foreigners, immigrants, refugees)

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(3) Intervention Centre- Forms of Help -

• Counselling
• - Legal
• - Social
• - Psychological
• Crisis bed
• Providing contacts to other professionals
• Interdisciplinary cooperation
  in the South Moravian
  region

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(3) Intervention Centre- Outputs for 2011-

• 119 police expulsions in the South Moravian
  region gt 173 people in safe (117
  women, 27 men, 29 children)
• 351 clients sought the Intervention centre by
  themselves (without expulsion) 316 women, 29 men,
  6 children
• Total number of clients 524
• Total number of consultations 1.652
• 546 clients (personal counselling)
• 1269 clients (phone counselling)
• 198 e-mails (e-mail counselling)
• 8 clients (outreach work)

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• SPONDEA, o.p.s.
• - Outputs for 2011 -
• 1 687 clients used services of organisation.
  Organisation provided 5 299 interventions.

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