Director

PaedDr. Petr Štainigl

Disability Home – Scope of services

Social Care Institute for the Physically Disabled Youth in Zbůch, V Sídlišti 347 330 22 Zbůch

Range of services offered to our clients

We offer our services in accordance with the Act nr. 108/2006 Coll. on Social Care Services. Further, the Notice nr. 505/2006, Article 2, §14 on Accommodation for the Disabled applies.
In the accommodation facility we provide housing services to people who, in scope of their disability, experience difficulties taking care of themselves either due to their age or a health problem. Our clients are those requiring regular help by other people.

Our services cover the following :

• Providing housing
• Supporting the handicapped with handling their daily tasks necessary to take care of themselves
• Helping the handicapped provide for their personal hygiene or providing the actual conditions and environment for personal hygiene
• Providing catering
• Educational, training and activating events and tasks
• Acting as a mediator when socializing with other people
• Social-therapeutic activities
• Providing support regarding protection of human rights, requirements and procurement of items of personal need

Target Group

Social Care Institute for the Physically Disabled Youth in Zbůch provides its services to people with physical, intellectual, sensorial or combined disabilities. Our clients' age ranges from 1 to 64. They are people who live or have appeared in an adverse social situation and now they need to receive aid or support that they cannot get from their families or through other services. Our activities include clients attending a compulsory level of school or those getting ready for a job either at a secondary school or in a training process.

Typically, members of this group are at risk of social separation. They are worse at taking care of themselves and handling the regular tasks necessary for living. They have difficulties using the public utilities and services, ensuring education and finding a job. Our clients experience trouble when pushing through their rights.

Social Services Implementation

Accommodation for the disabled is located within the Social Care Institute for the Physically Disabled Youth in Zbůch.

The Institute pursues the mission of providing help to those who have appeared in an adverse social situation. Due to the social trouble, the people cannot receive needed support in their natural environment.

We aim at improving socialization of our clients. When providing them with the social services, we maintain the clients' dignity.

Our mission focuses on widening the of scope of our clients' personal opportunities, on preserving and maintaining the way of life they had been living so far. Further, we also try help them use all kinds of public institutions and find inclusion in their local community and social environment. Making the mission come true is something to which all of our staff are committed with respect to the general public.

Our aim is to offer the clients of the Institute such a wide range of services that is able to satisfy their individual needs and requirements, emphasising the biggest autonomy and independence possible. Further, the Institute also provides high-quality and professional service that tries to give the clients as much real-life experience as possible.

We strive to support our clients in making autonomous decisions about their life and to include them in public activities. We also assist them with joining an educational programme in scope of special schools comprising both the elementary and secondary education levels. Our clients get ready to find their way in a real life and in the labour market.

The relationship between the clients and the provider of the social services is based on an agreement, which is in accordance with the Social Services Act. The clients are, in advance, informed on the key documents of the facility and also on their rights. Before their cooperation, the client and the provider agree on the range and manner of the social services offered. Signature of the agreement is immediately followed by planning the course of the services including the special pedagogy, treatment and rehabilitation plans together with a schedule tailored individually for the client. These plans are always striving to help the clients reach their personal aims. The planning process is flexible.

Through the adaptation procedure, the users of the services maintain close contact with the professional staff who are at hand to resolve any possible problems immediately. With support of the team of professionals, the individual clients choose a particular key member of staff who plans their aims for future with the client.

The client is free to adapt his/her daily programme according to their ideas and habits. They can participate actively and thus decide on how they use the services. The clients´ representatives have got the possibility to be members of the catering commission and so on.

The accommodation facility opens continuously and in accordance with needs of the clients, their legal representatives and custodians. Provision of the social services prevents the users with lower self-reliance from being excluded from society. Every one of them is seen as an individual with specific needs. The services are always based on individual attitude of the staff, their optimism, sensitive and caring approach towards the clients, all of that in accordance with legal standards and regulations. At work, the staff abide by the Code of Ethics of the Institute in Zbůch. Further, each staff member is qualified to look after the clients in accordance with the Act on Social Services.

The clients are entitled to full board (5 times a day), necessary nursing, rehabilitation, social, educational and therapeutic treatment. They can also participate in our cultural, social and sports events according to the schedule offered by the provider in scope of the local community. The programme includes elementary school attendance modified for persons with a disability. Secondary school attendance is also possible. In that case, the educational programme covers that one of an apprentice school.

The clients also receive support in case of working in a dedicated workshop run by the VDI Styl company regrouping people with a disability. Another option is to use an agency which specializes in localizing job opportunities for those requiring support at the workplace.

The users can also use the Rehabilitation Centre in Sazamov located close to the city of Domažlice. Priority is given to children to whom the institutional care had been allocated by authorities. In the children’s case, the provider cooperates with the authority providing legal protection to the particular child. This place is an ideal relaxation spot. It is fully accessible for the physically disabled. All clients can move freely within the public premises of the facility and beyond.

The Accommodation for the Disabled is a social-oriented service operating in accordance with the social services standards. As such, it cannot restrict free movement of its clients within or outside its premises. It cannot provide the client with personal assistance pursuant to the Act nr. 108/2006 Coll. on social services, in accordance with the Article 2, §5 of the Public Notice nr. 505/2006.

Opening Hours

The social services are provided throughout the whole year.

Disability Home Capacity

The Disability Home can provide accommodation to about 135 people.

People contra-indicated for disability home

However, due to the kind of our services, the facility cannot provide assistance to several disability groups, in particular to :

• People with a severe intellectual disability,
• Individuals behaving in breach with the life of a community of people, such as those seriously disturbing the human relations, not respecting rules of an organization, threatening themselves or other clients, requiring or in need of permanent personal assistance,
• People addicted to drugs, alcohol and other psychotropic substances or those addicted and currently undergoing a cure,
• People suffering from behaviour disorders,
• People diagnosed with chronic infectious diseases

Healthcare Provision

Social Care Institute for the Physically Disabled Youth in Zbůch provides healthcare through specific ambulant services both typically in the department of regular healthcare and in the rehabilitation department.

- in the emergency ward for the physically disabled youth – the healthcare is provided by 7 certificated nurses with 6 of them working continuously

MUDr. Pavla Šandová (a pediatrician from the Sv. Jiří Hospital in Plzeň) looks after children. Currently, 65 children are registered.

MUDr. Petr Kresa (an internist from the Zbůch Healthcare Centre) provides professional assistance to 60 registered clients.
- Other clients are registered in their domicile

The other physicians providing aid are listed below
Neurology - MUDr. Lubomír Zahrádka
Neurology - MUDr.Květoslava Antošová
Orthopedics - MUDr. Jiří Hrabák
Psychiatry - MUDr Jaroslava Zbránková
Gynaecology - MUDr. Milan Four
Dermatology - MUDr.Eva Zavázalová
Dentistry - MUDr. Jan Vacek, MUDr Harlasová
Logopedia - Mgr. Stanislava Skoblová

Personnel operating at the rehabilitation department
6 - registered rehabilitation assistants
2 - people engaged with working ergotherapy
2 - people engaged with hydrotherapy
1 - person engaged with hippotherapy
1 - person engaged with canistherapy