Center for activization and motivation

Aim of the center is to help people in bad social situation to manage their personal, social and work problems by the means of counselling-motivational program and other integrational activities. Separate programs are in synergy with strategy Program of development of Moravian-Silesian region and Strategic plan of Ostrava city, helps to create equal opportunities and suport inclusion of people in bad life situations.

Counselling-motivational program

Counselling work is aimed at dealing with specific needs of challenged people in health care system, social system and other areas of life as well as at opening job market to handicapped people. Main goal of counselling work is to understand these people in their difficult life situations. Than, based of that understanding to suggest, recommend and even execute benefit actions.    

• offering of up to date information and suggestions in solving personal, couple and family problems, helping with life orientation and with copeing with traumatic life situations
• motivation to saturate day regime, fulfilment of life, improving competencies, prevention of personal stagnation, pasivity and resignation.
• support clients in self-reliance (self-care, accomodation, work, education, financial management)
• help with contact with state agencies and non government and government organizations
• provision of contact information for other services
• cooperation with family members and close enviroment

Based on entry conversation with client, written individual plan is made which include extent of theoretical and practical activities of counselling-motivational program. Expert consultant is ruled by ethical codex during every activity with clients.

Workshops

Programs of therapeutic workhops are oreinted on easy work tasks with posibility of slow adoptation and improvment.  Aim is at gaining social and work skills – regular attendence, work flow, endurance and performance, responsibility for work, comunication in group etc. Workplaces are adapted to needs and medical conditions of clients. Regular regime and work supports the stabilisation of general client conditions. Work rehabilitations are based on 405/2004 Labour law.

Carpenter, assembly line and locksmith workshop

• teaching of basic woodwork (sawing, carving, painting)
• teaching of basic locksmith and assembly works (lock changing, furniture assembling etc.)
• renovation of antique furniture
• making of wood products (bird houses, towel hanger etc.)

Garden keeping

• teaching of basic gardening
• getting know various plants and herbs
• lawnmaking, trees and bushes growing
• flower and vegetable planting and growing
• experience with greenhouse growing
• harvest and consumation of own crop at garden party

Building maintenance

• cleaning works – dust keeping, vacum cleaning, floor cleaning, windows and door cleaning, sanitary works
• lock changing, small repairs and adjustments inside building

Textile workshop

• basic sewing techniques (basic stitch, hand sewing, machine sewing, emboidery)
• techniques of textile work (colouring, batik, printing on textile)
• weaving on frame and on loom
• felting of sheep wool, knitting, crochetting etc.

Social-education activities

Pedagogical principles are applied in realization of social work, change of disadvantage position is connected with education and competency development.

Therapeutic club

• training of responsibility and self-sufficiency
• training of natural comunication, good etiquete and appropriate reactions in conflict and crisis situations
• assertiveness skills training
• strenghtening of positive everyday habits, trust in own abilities, reduction of shyness in contact with people
• active and meaningful leisure time spending
• making of new social relationships

Computer skills basics

• teaching of basic computer skills – text processing, tables, internet browsing, using email

Integrational cultural activities

VaDidlo theater studio

• basic of acting – breathing, articulation, mimics, gesticulating, posturing, moving etc.
• sensing of iner and outer impulses, nonverbal comunication skills
• emotions and mood expresion – creative emotion processing
• strenghtening of mechanical and optical memory
• processing of live experince into short sketches, folowed by colective consideration, evaluation and discussion – improvement of social skills like making and keeping friends, orientation in relationships with opossite sex, work and other relationships

TRIGON Band

• singing and instrument playing (quitar, flute, drums)
• mutual enrichment by musical experience
• gaining of confidence and joy from life

Center for activization and motivation is not a provider of social services according to §108/2006 Social services law.