Slezská diakonie branches

Early Care and Education is a social service providing specialist support to families of children with disabilities or developmental risks due to adverse health conditions. It focuses both on supporting the family as a whole and on supporting the child's development with regard to their specific needs.

Providing one-to-one support and overnight accommodation for homeless people. Providing space for food preparation and for performing hygiene. We assist in re-establishing or consolidating contact with family and in other activities promoting the social inclusion of the client. We offer social counselling.

We operate a shelter for mothers with children providing temporary accommodation for mothers with children who find themselves in an unfavourable social situation related to the loss of housing. With individual support, we try to address their situation so that they can integrate into mainstream society and find suitable housing.

We care for families with children in long-term adverse social situations. The service is provided in an outreach form. We provide social therapeutic activities and assistance in exercising rights. We carry out educational, training and activation activities.

Support and accompaniment of families in the performance of foster family care so that children in these families have adequate care with regard to their needs, interests and original family and social environment.

We provide citizens with professional social counseling. Strives to ensure that people have the necessary information about their rights and responsibilities, available services and are able to express their needs or defend their legitimate interests. It is a place of free, confidential and impartial help.

We provide persons (40 years and older) with memory disorders, especially persons with Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia who currently live in the Ostrava district or persons with memory disorders from the Moravian-Silesian region, with the opportunity to develop their abilities and support them in self-sufficiency.

Offering shelter accommodation to men who find themselves homeless. Provides contacts for other accommodation facilities and other social services. We assist in re-establishing or consolidating contact with family and in other activities promoting social inclusion of people.

Provides professional counseling and therapeutic services to persons who find themselves in adverse social situations related to domestic violence, abuse and exploitation, difficulties in family and interpersonal relationships, or the use of alcohol, other addictive substances and gambling.