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La Strada Czech Republic Counseling Service (§37)
Purpose:
La Strada Czech Republic’s counseling service aims to create a safe and
dignified space, in which clients can consult with others on the topic of their
own needs, and share their experiences of human trafficking and exploitation.
Through the dissemination of expert information to clients, and through client
support, the service aims to fortify users’ abilities to solve their own
difficult living problems.
The service is provided either in person or over the telephone.
Values:
When working with the clientele, our personnel focuses on each
individual’s own needs, and places an emphasis on their privacy and rights.
Staff respects the experiences that the individuals using the service have had;
personnel approach the life decisions that the clientele have made without
prejudice and moral judgment.
Who is the service for?
The La Strada Czech Republic counseling service is for:
- Trafficked and exploited persons – people who were tricked into and/or
forced to carry out work, or offer services, such as prostitution. People who,
through their work, were exploited by others.
- People who have lived through, or those who have lived close to, human
trafficking and exploitation.
- People who are in a close relationship with those who have been trafficked
and/or exploited.
- People who are looking for work, or who are planning to travel, abroad and
those who are interested in more information about the risks of human
trafficking and exploitation.
The service is offered to those over 18 years of age of Czech and foreign
origin, regardless of visa status. The service can be provided in anonymity.
Aims:
- To improve clients’ abilities to solve their own difficult life
situations, and to protect clients from being socially excluded. La Strada tries
to fulfill this objective through the dissemination of information in a
comprehensible format and in a language which the client speaks.
- To minimize the effects of criminal acts linked to human trafficking and
exploitation.
- To minimize clients’ sense of denigration stemming from their situation
and the risks attached to the work they carry out. Again La Strada tries to
fulfil this objective through the dissemination of information.
- To defend trafficked individuals’ rights and to protect clients’
interests.
- To cooperate with clients to improve their living situation to such an
extent that they no longer require our services.
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