Social activation services for families with children(§ 65)

The mission of the Centre's social service Horizont  is support for families with minor children in Ostrava - Kunčičky, who found themselves in situations that cannot be handled by themselves. In addition, through the offered activities to establish contacts with users, strive for social integration and positive change in a lifestyle of children and youth in the unfavorable social situation, provide information, assistance, support and preventing their social exclusion.

Objectives of social services:

• Prevent or reduce the social risks associated with the life of the target user group
• Through the offered activities have better orientation in relations taking place in society
• Creating the conditions for their adverse social situation
• Promote the active involvement of users in a positive influence on their own adverse social situation and improve their social skills
• Providing adequate space and conditions for users to spend their leisure time and the realization of socially acceptable leisure activities
• Managing crisis situations in the family
• Mitigate the adverse effects of long-term situation in the family
• Support and assistance to families in the subsequent reintegration into society
• Support for families so that children could stay in a natural system, better understand children's needs by caregivers and be able to adapt to change unable to cope on their own
• Learn children to recognize when they need help and how they can find help for themselves
• Assistance in solving specific problems formulated in the plan of cooperation (such as improving welfare and behavior of children, procurement of communication between families and institutions, etc.)

Target group:

• Families with minor children / child whom face with difficult social situation, especially if it is a danger that this social situation could result in threats to children's development and integrity of the family,
• families who show an active co-operation
• Children and young people who:
• found themselves in a difficult situation or fell at risk
• do not seek out standard forms of institutionalized help
• are vulnerable by socially undesirable effects

Offered services:

• basic social counseling and information service for users
  
• providing the necessary information to help solving current problems and increase user competence to address these problems
• ensure conditions for a socially acceptable leisure activities
• Educational, training activation activities
• mediation of contacts with the social background (means, visits to theaters, cinemas, concerts)
• outreach work, which forms the basic operational framework, implement specific services in order to establish mutual trust and the conditions necessary for developing contacts and providing other services
• socio-therapeutic activities
• training and consolidation of motor, mental and social abilities and skills of the child,
• mediation of contacts with other professional institutions

Principles of social service:

• service is provided free of charge.
• respect for and protection of users' rights - social service is provided with emphasis on respecting the will, the protection of dignity, privacy and other rights of users,
• continuity and continuity of services,
• child's welfare is superior over all other interests, including interests of parents and is basically a primary consideration in the provision of social services