Outreach program Street Olomouc

Message:

Message of The Outreach Programs Olomouc is to offer and provide spectra of social services especially to persons who use non-alcohol drugs as well as to persons who are in danger of another high-risk behavior (unprotected and promiscuous sex, crime, pathological gambling) and to their close ones.

The Outreach Programs provide services in the areas of towns Olomouc, Šternberk, Litovel and Uničov and in nearby environs. The message is fulfilled by street work in normal environment of target group through street workers mediations. Sense of our services is prophylaxis and reducing consequences of high-risk behavior (as mentioned above). These services are provided individually and according to client´s needs with respect to their life choices. The Outreach Programs Olomouc also protects the general from potential negative social, health and economic impacts of high-risk behavior.

Hours:

OLOMOUC

GSM: +420 776 778 132

ŠTERNBERK

GSM: +420 776 778 263

LITOVEL

GSM: +420 776 778 263

UNIČOV

GSM: +420 776 778 263

Aims:

Basic aims of The Outreach Programs Olomouc are:

• active searching and speaking to target group in its normal environment
• regular contact and providing services to clients
• increasing client´s awareness about high-risk behavior
• motivate clients to contact the other social services and institutions
• motivate to active problem solving
• survey drug scene and places where target group occurs to streamline provided service and to optimize it to client needs
• purposeful communication with the other establishments in the social system and with the public
• clear syringe sets for syringe users
• protect public from potential negative consequences of drug abuse (spreading of HIV, hepatitis etc.)

Principles of service providing:

The Outreach Programs Olomouc takes up Ethics Code of Czech Association Outreach-work (Street Work). Ethics Code for Low-threshold services (outreach programs, Drop-In centers and low-threshold for children and youths) comes out from Social Workers Ethic Code and it is focused on social workers in outreach programs, Drop-In centers, and low-threshold for children and youths.

• Harm Reduction – HR attitude accepts fact that drugs are inseparable part of society. It does not go against prime prophylaxis and abstinence but tolerates fact that the goal of abstinence does not need to be for everyone. Informal motto of HR attitude is: “Don´t use drugs. If you use them, just sniff. If you can´t sniff, smoke. If you can´t smoke and have to apply syringe, do it safely. If you can´t do it safely, don´t do it at all!”.
• Public Health Model – protection of public health from damaging events in society (HIV, AIDS, hepatitis). It is a specific form of damage minimizing.
• Low-threshold – clients can use service anytime in working hours, anonymously, they do not to have to order and services are provided for free.
• Public availability – clients have access to provided services regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, political belief, psychical and physical condition or socio-economic situation.
• Respect to client choice – we respect choice of client in way of life, we actively offer professional care and help, but client can freely decide if he or she will use it or not.
• Focus on complex, individual attitude – we view on situation of client in bio-psycho-social-spiritual model, but we fit service for individual person. We respect individuality of every client and services are provided according to his/her current needs and possibilities.
• Flexibility and neediness – services lively conform to needs of clients, not to needs of workers. Services respond to current needs of clients in necessary spread.

Target group:

Primary target group:

• non-alcohol drug users

Secondary target group

• parents and partners of clients
• general population - students of elementary and secondary schools, adult public, residents of specific cities where the program is provided

Provided services:

• informative service
• exchangeable service
• distribution of capsule for oral drug using
• health service
• contact work
• individual counseling
• individual case work
• support for clients in crisis
• contact, agreement and counseling by cell phone and email
• referring to the other services
• assistance service
• intervention in festivities background
• work with general (school chats)
• field surveying and getting feedback from clients

Message, aims, principles of service and another information you can find in Register of Social Services here

Team:

Mgr. Lukáš Carlos Hrubý – expert direction, Director of services

Jakub Lívanský , DiS. – head of service, street worker

Eva Továrková – street worker

Bc. Lukáš Bednařík, DiS.- street worker

Supervisor: Mgr. Veronika Vymětalová

Project is funded with support of:

• The Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
• Government Council for Drug Policy Coordination
• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• Ministry of Health of Czech Republic
• Olomouc Region
• City of Olomouc
• Šternberk Town
• Litovel Town
• Uničov Town

We thank for sponsorship:

Redvel s.r.o., www.redvel.cz

Profit, www.profit-inzerce.cz

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