Eset – Help, civic association
The Eset – Help is a non-governmental organization founded in 1995 from the initiative of the psychoterapeutical day clinic Eset.
The clinic Eset provides ambulantory psychiatric and psychological care for people with mental illness.
The Eset – Help provides social services focused on rehabilitation and resocialization of psychiatric patients.
Social services provided by the Eset – Help
WORK
- Transitional employment
- Supported employment
- Training café „Dendrit“
- Training shop „Galerie Vazka“
HOUSING
- Sheltered housing
LEISURE TIME
- Day activities centre
OTHER
- Counselling in law and social problems for clients. It runs 2 hours, once a week.
- Educational course for family members of our clients
- Therapeutic outdoors stays of our clients (One week held in country, organised in collaboration with clients)
Work rehabilitation
Transitional employment provides clients with employment in the regular working conditions (in regular companies and firms) at the labour market. Work rehabilitation for one client is limited by working hours per day – maximum is 5 hours per day and the duration of rehabilitation – it takes 6 months at one work.
During the rehabilitation, the clients are training their social and work skills, with support of the work therapist. The general goal of work rehabilitation is to enable clients to try out the working process, acquire and enhance their existing effective social and work skills and learn new necessary skills.
Supported employment is designed for the clients who want to find a job at the open work market and who need some kind of support. The process of the support providing is composed from several steps.
The work consultants try to help clients to define the fitting job. Consultants provide support to the clients in finding job during regular consultations, including help with preparing CV and with communication with employers. After the client found a job, it is possible to continue providing support in this program - for 2 years at maximum. The client may consult questions about his job - contract, introduction to the employment, maintaining the job, job changing, communication with colleagues and chief.
Training café „Dendrit“
The training café provides sheltered work rehabilitation taking 4 – 6 month, 3 hours daily. In the café a therapist is always present and ready to help client whenever it is needed. Café is open for public, so that clients have a chance to acquire new ways of contact. We are organising different artistic productions in the café – concerts, exhibitions, author´s readings of poetry (our clients and guests), theatre performances. The space of the café is also sometimes used for work meetings with colleagues from cooperating organizations.
Training shop „Galerie Vážka“ („Dragonfly gallery“)
The shop gallery provides the sheltered work rehabilitation for 4 months at maximum, 2,5 hrs daily. The system is the same as in the café „Dendrit“. The shop assortment consists of crafts and gift goods (ceramics, jewels, clothes, tea, glass etc). These are mainly products of the sheltered workshops and other producers.
Leisure time programs
Centre of daily activities („Dragonfly gallery“)
The Centre provides services in the sphere of leasure time activities. It opens every day a week except weekends. Opening hours are from 10:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. Centre offers for clients these possibilities:
- space for communication and contact with other people,
- afternoon programs (trips, art working, games, excursions),
- educational activities (PC and English courses),
- Christmas and Easter parties.
There is also the „Client Council“ in Eset – Help, recruited from the members of Centre. It is advisory authority for the management of the association Eset – Help. „Client Council“ efforts to pursue activities to enhance the progress of Eset - Help.
Training sheltered housing
Motto: There is man at home, where he can help himself or where he can ask for the advise and he obtains it.
Sheltered housing is one of the ways of social rehabilitation. With support of therapist the clients learn and train their skills for independent living (cooking, tidying up, washing up, shopping, managing the money, communication with authorities and the other useful knowledges). Rehabilitation in the sheltered housing takes 1 year and it is possible to prolong the service for more 6 months.
There are two flats in sheltered housing with three places – one flat for the men and one for the women. Each client has his own room in the flat. Toilet, bathroom and kitchen is commonly used by the clients.