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Volunteering and Social Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities
KAPRIOVÁ, Kristýna
The aim of bachelor thesis on Volunteering and Social Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities is to disclose the stances of volunteer coordinators about engaging people with intellectual disabilities in a volunteer activity. The thesis is divided into a therotical and a practical part. The theoretical part is divived in two main chapters. The first chapter deals with a definition of the term intellectual disabilities, a clasification and a characterization of individual stages of intellectual disabilities. The second chapter focuses on volunteering, volunteers themselve, who is the volunteer coordinator and it focuses on the mentally handicaped volunteers. The practical part contains the established target and three research questions, which determine the stances of the volunteer coordinators about engaging mentally handicaped people in a volunteer activity. A qualitative research grounded theory was used to proces the data. A semi-structured interview was used for the purpose of this thesis. Communication partners were chosen randomly out of organizations for a coalition of volunteer iniciatives, which is a part of a project Hestie a national volunteer center. Their answers were compiled by a technique of open coding. The results show that most of the volunteer coordinators approach the volunteers with intellectual disabilities very openly and would welcome their collaboration with their organization. The thesis can serve as a source of information for sociology and pedagogical students who deal with the subject of volunteering of mentally handicaped people.
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Volunteer Management in Hospices
Sobotová, Zdeňka ; Tollarová, Blanka (advisor) ; Marková, Monika (referee)
TITLE: Volunteer Management in Hospices AUTHOR: Bc. Zdeňka Sobotová KEY WORDS: hospice, palliative care, volunteering, volunteer management, Volunteer Service Manager This thesis deals with the management of the volunteer program in hospice, mainly from the perspective of the Volunteer Service Managers (VSMs). In the empirical part it brings description of the problems and issues VSMs are facing in eight Czech hospices. Among the main findings of the author are that volunteering in hospices deals with little support from management, lack of finance and difficult acceptance by the staff. The time VSMs can devote to volunteers is too little or too vaguely defined, which does not allow them to really develop the volunteer program. In none of the hospices visited volunteer program evaluation does not take place. Mobile hospices are facing concerns about the responsibilities of volunteers and difficulties in communication with families, which in some hospices lead to the fact that the volunteers in direct care are not involved. In the theoretical part of this work the author offers answers that bring literature to the problems described by her research. Together with the best advice received from respondents of her research are then summarized in the form of a practical handbook for VSMs, which can be...
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Professionalization of a non profit organization through the functional model of volunteering
Pragerová, Klára ; Vrzáček, Petr (advisor) ; Tošner, Jiří (referee)
The present thesis focuses on the development of volunteerism as a part of the professionalization of a nonprofit organization. Case study took place in the organization Pestrá společnost, which is dedicated to the training of assistance dogs and provides social services to the owners of assistance dogs. The organization uses volunteers regularly and on long-term basis. Research in this organization confirms the fact that quality management of volunteerism effectively utilizes the capacity of motivated volunteers and reduces overall financial costs. The theoretical part focuses on the professionalisation of management of volunteering through the selection and training of volunteers with regard to their motivation. It describes how the motivation of volunteers links with the aims of the organization. An organization, which is interested in linking together the motivation of volunteers and its own aims during the process of their selection and training must undoubtedly benefit from this collaboration. The practical part in the form of a case study focuses on a concrete organization. The qualitative part of the research provides specific suggestions for changes and measures that are proposed as the part of the action research. These measures are also implemented and three months after their...
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Organization of volunteers in the Czech House during The Summer Olympic Games in London
Snopová, Karolína ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Mirovský, Tomáš (referee)
Title: Organization of volunteers in the Czech House during The Summer Olympic Games in London Objectives: The thesis is focused on issues of choice and management of volunteers for the Czech House in London, which was the main meeting place for fans and athletes and also the place for public presentation of the Czech Republic during the Summer Olympic Games 2012. The aim is to describe the organization of volunteers and to suggest changes that could be utilized in the next years or when working with volunteers during similar events. Methods: The information have been obtained by the interview with the chief coordinator of volunteers, informal interviews with volunteers and my own experience as an volunteer in the Czech House (observation). Results: The methods used have brought enough information to create a complete description of the organizational system of volunteers in the Czech House. The segmentation on individual personnel actions contributed to the clarity of this description. For most of the actions there was a relevant content from the organizational system of volunteers. The use of this organizational system brought only few problems and that is why it could be recommended to other organizers of sporting or similar events. For completeness, the solution was designed to avoid such...
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Volunteer co-ordinator´s role in health and social services
CODLOVÁ, Jitka
Although the co-ordinator of volunteers is the key person of the volunteers management we do not know much about the role of the co-ordinator, contents of his work and personality characteristics he needs for his profession; the necessary material concerning this issue is still missing. The theoretical part of the submitted treatise explains briefly the basic concepts as volunteering, volunteer, volunteers in the health and social field. It analyses in details the person of the co-ordinator of volunteers. The target of the bachelor{\crq}s thesis is to map the contents of work of the co-ordinator of volunteers in the health and social field, their motivation for performing this activity and their personality characteristics. Hypotheses: 1.The co-ordinators of volunteers took part in the training organized by the National Volunteer Hestia Centre. 2.The co-ordinators of volunteers consider the communicative and organizational abilities for most important. 3.The most frequent motivation for the work of co-ordinator of volunteers is the possibility of self-fulfilment. The selected technique is the questioning by the questionnaire with the randomly selected co-ordinators of volunteers and volunteers working in the health and social field from volunteer centers in the whole Czech Republic. Another applied method is the analysis of the document. It follows from the results of the research that the contents of the work of volunteer co-ordinator is very broad. The co-ordinators of volunteers consider their communication and organizational abilities for most important. The main motivation for the activity is acquiring the new experience and possibilities of self-fulfillment. The permitted research confirmed the second and third hypothesis, the first hypothesis has not been confirmed. This bachelor{\crq}s treatise may be utilized for organizations performing the training of co-ordinators of volunteers, as manual for the participants of the research and future co-ordinators.
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Volunteering in the Social Services in the Region Prachatice
PAZDERSKÁ, Soňa
The work deals with the importance of volunteering in social services and the use of volunteers in them. It contains the basic concepts with which we are to meet areas of volunteering v Also, there is shown jaké the voluntary pro organization and volunteer for the interest. The paper describes the characteristics of volunteer service in accordance with law 198/2002 Sb. The contracts and their appurtenances, which are an integral part of the volunteer work also can read. Methodology of work with volunteers is entirely devoted one chapter. Research that clearly shows how they are currently used throughout the work completed by volunteers.
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The importance of training of volunteers in the health and social sphere
PECHKOVÁ, Šárka
Volunteers are being integrated in all spheres of human activities. The most widespread area where the volunteers can operate is health social sphere. Voluntary activity in this area is very demanding and that is why the professional approach is necessary. Its part is also a volunteer training. This training is used for the volunteers to strengthen their motivation and understanding their role in the voluntary program. Thanks to this voluntary training future misunderstanding among volunteer, client and organization is prevented. Theoretical part is focused on clarification of some basic concepts from volunteering area. It also tries to scan volunteer programs from the training point of view and to outline common schematics of training. The purpose of this work is to quantitatively evaluate importance of volunteer trainings for voluntary activity in different voluntary programmes. The following collecting data methods were used for quantitative research: controlled interview and questionnaire. Volunteers and co-ordinators of voluntary programmes were included into the investigated group. From the collected data it is obvious that co-ordinators of voluntary programmes consider voluntary training necessary for practising voluntary activity. They also think that the biggest contribution of volunteer training is practical training of necessary skills. Another profit is that the training helps volunteers to practise voluntary activity on high level. Training motivates trainees to become volunteers and at the same time it declines fear and uncertainty of volunteers from voluntary activities. The thesis will be offered to National voluntary centre Hestia in Prague that may use it as a basis for creation of integrated philosophy of volunteer training.
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