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Halfway House
Service provided:
- Sheltered Accommodation – in principle for 12 months
- Training in social skills (cooking, cleaning, washing – active interacting in the household; learning to economize earned money, to organize time effectively, to communicate with authorities)
- Support when entering the labour market
- Social assistance – accompaniment at offices and institutions
- Social and legal support
- Help with finding proper accommodation
Mission:
The mission of the social service Half Way House under the title „Supported living for youg refugees“ is to provide help for young people – foreigners without any family background – to fully integrate into society.
Objectives:
- To help young foreigners with every-day situations in the Czech Republic
- To support young foreigners when seeking and keeping a legal job
- To tutor young foreigners to economize earned money and to lead self-reliant lives
- To provide support in dealing with every-day matters
- To tutor young foreigners in how to be independent and self-reliant
- To tutor young foreigners to seek out and use help
- To tutor young foreigners on what their rights and duties are
- To support young foreigners when actively seeking their own accommodation
Target group:
- Young foreigners 18 – 26 years old who were integrated before reaching the age of majority into a group of unaccompanied minors and who were clients of the Facility for Foreign Children in the Czech Republic
- Young foreigners, 18 – 26 years old, who come from some other living facitility or integration asylum centre of the Refugee Facility Administration of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic
- Those who have international protection – any kind of asylum or permanent residence permission in the Czech Republic
- Those who have a job or they actively looking for a job
- Those who are in an exceptional case the students of a high school, a college or a university and are not for serious reasons clients of the ZDC or of its study department
- The Half Way House service is not to be used just as an escape out of a difficult housing situation
- The clients are not alcohol or drug addicted
- They voluntarily agree with all conditions of the program
- The clients are not mentally ill and they are not diagnosed with any mental disorders
- They do not suffer from any acute infectious illness
- The clients are in good health, they do not require hospitalization
- They are able to move around without any other person‘s help
Rules for providing service:
- Trust and respect
- Individual approach
- Active attitude
- Equality
- Empathy
- Leading to independence, self-fulfillment and self-responsibility
