Individual Planning Application with Clients of Sheltered Housing.

A very much debated topic is currently an issue of the individual planning with users of social services. It has been seen as a cornerstone in a rendition of the first-rate social service. It is legitimized in the Law No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, where an obligation to plan a course of the service with the user is imposed with a respect to his/her needs and wishes so that he/she could be satisfied with an implementation and realization of the individual plans. The individual planning also belongs to important quality standards, that must be met so that the service could be provided on a high quality level, effectively and in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization while respecting the individual needs of the users. The aim of my thesis is to find out in which way the individual planning is carried out with users of the sheltered housing ?Proutek? in Jindřichův Hradec, whose clientele are people with mental disabilities. In the theoretical part, in order to achieve the objective, I will describe the individual planning, what specifics it has, methods and practices in the social work with mentally handicapped users, I will emphasize prerequisites for a successful planning with clients with mental disabilities. I will focus on the person of the worker who is engaged in the individual planning, how much he/she has been trained, which principles he/she should follow in the planning course to ensure the already above mentioned quality of the service in accordance with the standards. In the practical part I will specifically focus on an implementation of important preconditions for the high-quality individual planning for the users with mental disabilities in the sheltered housing. Through semi-controlled interviews with four assistants who realize the individual planning in the housing, I will find out the way of an implementation of the planning in the service, further I will evaluate positives as well as negatives which can occur during the individual planning with this specific group of users. An output of my bachelor thesis is an evaluation of the individual planning implementation in the service. A comparison of the assistants´ work and pointing out a good practice in a rendition of the first-rate individual planning with users with mental disabilities, focused on an application of principal planning prerequisites usable also for other establishments with a similar type of the service

Value ranking of Children in Children's Home in Radenín.

My thesis focuses on what values are preferred by children in a children's home, what relationships between values arise, and how values interact. The domain of value orientations, value and attitude preferences must be monitored for a better understanding of the people who surround us, with whom we work, of whom we take care, and also whom we bring up The theoretical part of the thesis, its individual chapters, focuses on the theoretical background of the issue of values and value orientations, as well as on foster upbringing and the characteristics of facilities for institutional upbringing. The first chapter characterizes what foster upbringing of children is, what forms of foster upbringing may be used, and what facilities are legally defined for institutional upbringing. The reasons why institutional upbringing is ordered by courts are analyzed in detail. The second chapter focuses on a children's home as a specific facility for institutional upbringing. Specifically, the Children's Home in Radenín is introduced that was chosen for the research part of the thesis. The definitions of terms relating to values and value orientations, attitudes, interests and motivation are presented in the third chapter. More specifically, the kinds of values, whose characteristics can be found in expert literature, are described. The fourth chapter clarifies what factors operate, influence and shape our value orientation as well as individual values, which become an important part of everyone's lives. Of some interest were also the roles played in this shaping by the school, family, peers but also the media. The empirical part of the thesis defines the objective, during whose accomplishment the basic life values of the children the Children's Home in Radenín were investigated and subsequently analyzed. In line with the objective, a research question was formulates; it was as follows: What life values are preferred by the children in the Children's Home in Radenín? The research was intended to find out what values are recognized and preferred by children who do not grow in their primary families, whose effects are considered as cornerstones in building value orientations of children. Of major interest were the analyses of interrelationships of individual values, interpenetration, and interactions and preferences of these values in children. The benefit of the thesis can be seen in the use of its results in everyday work of educators working with children in children's home