Description
Southbohemian region lacks the respite care for children and youth with combined mental and physical disability completely. Due to the large amount of assistance and care required, the parents of children with combined disability have an extremely limited space for their own recreation, hobbies, self development and overall mental and physical hygiene. Such situation endangers the well-being of not only the parents but consequently also the children themselves. Arpida centre wants to contribute to the solution of this situation in cooperation of two NGO organisations by the pilot programme of follow-up respite care. The recipients are children and youth with health disability up to 18 years of age and their families from the district of České Budějovice (Arpida centre clients) and district of Tábor (Kaňka centre clients) and subsequently from the whole Southbohemian region. The target group is made up by at least 120 families with disabled children.
Summary of project results
In the region of South Bohemia no relief service for families with children with combined disabilities was available. The aim of the project was to help families with disabled children, to prevent exhaustion of the people looking after them and also to forestall deterioration of care and jeopardy of child development in his or her natural environment. The implementation of the project was supposed to deal with inaccessibility of respite care in the region of South Bohemia. At the same time, there has been an increase in the target group of adult clients at the Arpida Centre. The organization was not prepared for the transformation and development of social services and other forms of assistance for these clients. The aim of the project was also a development and implementation of a consecutive support of the clients. The implementation of the project was supposed to develop and improve the Arpida Centre activities by using new forms of care and support in the area of necessary consecutive services and activities for youngsters and adult clients putting emphasis on their life in common society. Results and outputs of the project: existence and implementation of the respite care pilot programme offering specific terms and possibilities and its incorporation into the complex of services of the Arpida Centre, its spatial, material and staff resources of the respite care programme; proposal of the respite care programme in the capacity of 318 client/days and the use of years in number of 129 client/days in the period from May, 2015 - March, 2016; continuation and sustainability of the project activity in the form of a registered social service Relief Services; and processing a conception of consecutive support for adult clients of the Arpida Centre which has been gradually fulfilled by the team of consecutive support.
Summary of bilateral results