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Experiencing the reality of homelessness by clients of the St. Paul´s house in České Budějovice city charity
HORALOVÁ, Nela
Homelessness is a social phenomenon whose consequences affect an entire group of people and which is a part of life of the society. My thesis deals with the reality of homelessness experienced by clients the House of St. Paul in České Budějovice. The aim is to determine the causes of homelessness among clients of the House of St. Paul and learn how clients experience the reality of homelessness. In the theoretical part, I focus on specific problems associated with homelessness in the Czech Republic and services that are provided to the affected people. This is followed by a description of the structure and activities of a particular facility designated for homeless people, the House of St. Paul in České Budějovice. In the practical part I focus on finding the most common causes of this problem. The most common causes of homelessness among the surveyed clients were loss of a job or housing, alcohol and drug addiction, inability to successfully rejoin society after leaving a prison or a family breakdown. At the same time I also examine how these people experience their complicated situation. I have found out that none of the clients is satisfied with this situation, and that most of them are trying to change their life. They are looking for a job and a home, but the reintegration of these people back into normal life is very problematic. I work with qualitative research. Data for the research were gained directly from clients of the House of St. Paul through structured interviews. The interview consisting of nine questions was held with a total of ten clients. I think that this thesis could help reveal the causes of homelessness and how the people experience their difficult situation and how they try to fight it. And because the House of St. Paul is the only facility of this type in the region, this work could become a motivation for other cities to establish a similar facility.
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Stimulation Mechanisms in the System of Assistance in Material Deprivation
TŮMOVÁ, Hana
The system of assistance in material deprivation regulates aid to people in need, i.e., persons who finds themselves in a situation where they are unable to provide for themselves. At present, greater emphasis is being out on each citizen?s responsibility for themselves and their families, as well as their active role in the finding of solutions for social events that impact on them. The point to try to motivate people in need to improve personally and actively their income. The aim of the Diploma Thesis is to map the findings gathered in the process of applying selected mechanisms in the system of assistance to persons in need. Five basic questions have been formulated for our research: 1. How do the clients see the idea of selling property or other uses of property? 2. How can we prove a client?s endeavor to improve his income by working? 3. What requirements and demands do recipients of welfare benefits have when they improve their income by working? 4. Is the concept of positive effect of higher income earned by own work apparent more on the part of social workers than clients? 5. What options of controlling do the recipients of welfare benefits have when trying to prove their effort to improve their income by own work? The qualitative survey was conducted by questioning, using the technique of semi-structured interview. Data collection was done from July to October 2011 ad in March 2012. The survey sample consisted of 12 recipients of welfare benefits selected by random, 12 social workers from municipal offices, and 5 social workers from regional branches of the Labor Office. The collected data were processed by casuistry specialists. Other data were sorted by theme, mutually compared, and summarized in the form of tables. The research survey revealed that most of the questioned social workers do not consider the system of material assistance stimulating. They believe that the system forces clients to rely on the system, rather than seek employment actively.
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Is the Social Work with Roma People Minority unrewarding?
ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Lenka
Social work with Roma people minority is specific, big demands regarding various differences of their target group are placed on employees. Nevertheless social work with Gypsy minority is important not only for the clients themselves but due to its impacts and results it affects everybody. In spite of that employees sometimes face misunderstanding, astonishment and surprise of public, in some cases even condemnation of their work. Some important themes regarding social work with clients of the target Roma people minority are summarised in the theoretical part of the thesis. Besides definition of some terms there are described factors and problems of Roma people being the most frequent clients of social services. In particular the reasons are unemployment, debts, impossibility to find convenient living, bad health condition and especially total social exclusion of this group of people. Here are also described models, approaches and types of social work related to the Roma people minority clients the most. The target of the thesis was to analyse subjective feelings and moods of employees, to obtain information about specific positive and negative reactions regarding their work not only on part of their clients but wide public and especially to find out how they perceive these exposures. Further it was mapping of their possible other problems but also reflexion of what they like the most at their work and on the contrary some factor making their work unpleasant.The research was carried out using several methodology procedures of qualitative strategy ? questioning method, semi-structured interview technique but also participant observation. It resulted from the obtained knowledge that the addressed employees face both positive and negative reactions on part of the clients as well as wide public. From the summary of respondents? answers it resulted that the importance of their work is in their opinion marginalised and their job is not appreciated as it should be in their opinion.
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The reasons and the extent of drug abuse within the children from social and cultural unfavourable environment
CHRTOVÁ, Ivana
For my thesis I have chosen this topic Reasons and the extent of drug abuse within the children from social and cultural unfavourable environment. I was attracted by this theme during my school practical training. Drug experiments with the follow-up abuse within the children?s population are becoming more and more a serious problem not only in the Czech Republic but in the whole world too. Lately the age limit has cut down for the experiments related to legal as well as illegal drugs. The children from the social and cultural unfavourable environment are involved in drug abuse and other pathological phenomenon much sooner than the major society, which explains the lower age limit. When the child belongs to the social and cultural disadvantageous group of inhabitants, he/she comes into the social, health, economical and often criminal problems. To be a member of such excluded group can cause that the child is more likely exposed to frequently and risky drug abuse. The thesis refers to the drug abuse by the children from the social and cultural unfavourable environment. The data for the thesis were collected from the 14 and 15 year old children in special pedagogical institutions in the South Bohemian region. The quantity research was applied to get the data, via anonymous questioner enriched with the additional discussion with the therapists of the respective institution, and were analysed in quality. The previously stated hypothesis were verified and evaluated based on the results qualification. The thesis contains the theoretical part which explains the basic terms, describes models of drug addiction, as the base for the statement and the cause of drug experiments and abuse within the children?s population from disadvantageous environment. The theoretical part concludes the research results of this subject provided within the children?s ordinary population to be compared with this thesis research results. The practical part marks out the goals and describes the own steps of the research. The aim of this work is to find out the reasons and extent of the drug abuse by the children from the social and cultural unfavourable environment. The partial aim was to compare the reasons and extent of drug abuse within these children with the data previously obtained from the ordinary children?s population in the Czech Republic. The research results present higher segment of the respondents from the social and cultural unfavourable environment related to addictives, including higher frequency of the abuse, rather younger age of the first experience with addictives, even regular abuse and experience with various types of addictives compared to regular children?s population. Thanks to the research results we can point to the fact that the reasons of using addictives by the children from the social and cultural unfavourable environment differ from the reasons of the ordinary children?s population. It consists mainly in psychological and social deprivation of those children and absence of the basic psychological needs fulfilment. Such stigma subsequently influences the predisposition to addictives abuse by the children from the social and cultural unfavourable environment, who owing to the drug may be able ?to forget? their problems at least for a while. The thesis results can be used in practice, for teaching, for further research or as the source of information for general public as well as for experts.
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Potentional Aproaches to Solve the Adverse Social Situations of Single Mother in Shelter
KLÍMOVÁ, Jana
Theoretical part is concerned with principles of the recent social politics focusing on support of individuals threatened from social isolation. In this case we deal with single mothers with children that lost housing due to unfortunate social circumstances. One solution is that social services intervention may provide special housing option. An example is shown from Pribram town, where a complete list of services is described in detail. Such list includes internal housing rules imposed on occupants. More importantly this example shows methods of interaction with occupants while building specific plans that match occupants? rights and goals. Practical part deals with evaluation of success of this housing service that includes evaluation of recordings with possible requests and/or suggestions based on communication between service personnel and selected occupants. The main emphasis here is identification of system weaknesses and overall improvement of this system. Methods: Communication, relevant documents? research, relevant observations.
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Non-Romani inhabitants of socially excluded ?Romani? localities
HAVLÍKOVÁ, Jana
This diploma thesis with the title ?Non-Romani inhabitants of socially excluded ?Romani? localities is divided into two parts: the theoretical and the empiric parts. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis deals mainly with defining the terms of social exclusion and socially excluded locality. At the same time, it describes the phenomenon of the poverty, underclass and white trash culture and ethnicity. The research part deals with the description of the actual research methodology, interpretation and the presentation of the research investigation results. The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the perception of life in a socially excluded ?Romani? locality, by non-Romani inhabitants. With respect to the aim of the diploma thesis I chose the qualitative research strategy. The qualitative investigation was conducted by the method of questioning. The questioning technique was a semi-structured interview consisting of open questions. The target set consists of twelve respondents living in three excluded localities in the territory of the town of České Budějovice, who do not consider themselves, on the basis of self-identification, as members of the Romani ethnic group. The results of my research investigation shows what leads non-Romani inhabitants up to living in socially excluded localities, if they feel safely there and how they perceive coexistence with Romani ethnic group.
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HOMELESSNESS AND THE SERVICES OFFERED COMPARISON CHURCH DEVICES FOR WOMEN HOMELESS IN SOUTH BOHEMIA
STRÁŇKOVÁ, Vladimíra
This work deals with homelessness and then focuses on a man without a home and services provided by religious institutions in South Bohemia. The theoretical part explains some of the concepts, such as homelessness and homeless, the concept of material or social distress, poverty and social exclusion, charity of the Church. Further describes the two charity organizations and facilities providing care to people (or men) homeless. The practical part describes services from the perspective of clients of two devices described above, the scope of services offered, and actual use of any missing areas of care, as perceived by users of the facility. It is a shelter St. Peter and St. House shelter. Paul (St. House. Paul provides more services and one of them is offering shelter). The conclusions point to the need of the individual's own motivation and also the need to provide the necessary care to individual becoming socially excluded.
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Nezaměstnanost znevýhodněných skupin v ČR
Tišerová, Gabriela ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Khendriche Trhlínová, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis deals with theme unemployment of disadvantaged groups. In theoretical part are clarified approaches to study and defined terms, which are used in thesis, asses the situation of labor market in Czech Republic. Then are defined disadvantaged groups, analyzed theirs disadvantages, problems and consequences to claim in the labor market. In practical part, author deals with support integration of disadvantaged groups; it deals with strategic documents of problems of unemployment from EU to town level. The thesis deals with the active labor market policy and social firm as a type of support integration disadvantaged groups to labor market. Object of thesis is finding, on the basis analyze, actual state of labor market and possibilities of integration disadvantaged groups in period of finances deficiency and with less possibilities of welfare state supports.
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Poverty and social exclusion: an ethical challenge for the Czech society
KOLÁŘOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis deals with the role of the state and society in their attitudes to poverty and social exclusion. The introductory part aims at characterising the phenomenon of poverty and social exclusion, and deals with the issue of how the society perceives poverty. It focuses on the concept of the culture of poverty, and attention is given to the need of solidarity, social justice and the social state. The following part of my thesis deals with the extent of poverty and social exclusion in the Czech Republic, as well as possibilities of a social safety net in the Czech Republic. It describes particular examples of the manifestation of social exclusion and poverty in the Czech society, especially in the sphere of housing, opportunities in the labour market and falling into destructive debts. It sheds light on the situation of Romanies as the worst affected population group. The current situation in the Czech Republic shows that the attitude of the society to poverty as a personal fault and failure, impedes mutual solidarity, and generates strategies connected with repression that fail to understand the causes of poverty. For this reason, they cannot be adequately efficient. The society should react to, consider and efficiently solve poverty-related problems. Inspiration may be found in Christian ethics and its concept of human dignity.
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Negative Effects of Social Support in the Romanies Living in Socially Excluded Locations (Specifi Situation in Písek)
ĎURKOVOVÁ, Lucie
This thesis deals with social support - any help provided to a man by other people (both laymen and profesionals). The thesis tries to describe, evaluate and analyse some negative aspects of social support provided to the Romanies who live in a socially excluded locations (considering the concrete situation in Písek) and suggest suitable measures how to improve it. Although this thesis is conceived as theoretical, for completion it contains views of social workers from Písek who provide social support to the Romanies, and in case reports, there are mapped social nets and experiences of small sample of the Roma residents from Písek´s socially excluded locations.
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