Crisis Aid (§60)
Purpose:
La Strada Czech Republic’s crisis shelter is there to help solve any
crisis which has as its cause human trafficking and exploitation. It creates the
conditions in which the client can work towards the overall stabilization of
their situation.
The offer of temporary free accommodation for a maximum of seven days in safe
and dignified surroundings, where social care and counseling is also available,
serves to help people broaden their own horizons and lead their own
independent lives.
The purpose of La Strada Czech Republic’s crisis aid 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 crisis intervention, and the dissemination of expert information to
clients, as well as through client support, the service aims to fortify users’
abilities to solve their own difficult living problems.
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?
La Strada Czech Republic’s crisis shelter 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.
When clients’ lives or health is threatened, the unfavourable conditions in
which said clients often live require for temporary accommodation to be
offered.
La Strada Czech Republic’s crisis aid 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.
When clients’ lives or health is threatened, the unfavourable conditions in
which said clients often live require for crisis intervention to be offered.
The service is offered to those who find themselves in a life or
health-threatening situation. Clients must be over 18 years of age of Czech or
foreign origin, regardless of visa status. A ambulant version of the service
can be provided in anonymity.
Aims:
The main aims of the service are:
- To stabilize a client’s critical situation and minimise the threat to
their life or health.
- To offer crisis intervention.
La Strada Czech Republic’s crisis shelter also has the
additional aims:
- To guarantee clients accommodation for a period not exceeding seven days, in
the course of which clients participate in day to day activities (such as
cleaning, washing, ironing, making the beds, personal hygeine,
cooking etc.)
- To provide clients, for a maximum of seven days, with the basic material and
financial means required for day to day living, as well as the financial and
material means to resolve difficult living situations.
- To work towards assuring the safety of both clients and personnel.
- To provide clients with information and support so that they can protect
their own interests, defend their rights, and take back control of their
own life.
- To minimise the effects of criminal acts committed in connection with human
trafficking and exploitation.
La Strada Czech Republic’s ambulant crisis aid also has the
additional aims:
- To work with clients so as to stabilize their living conditions, to minimize
the threat to their life and/or health. This threat to life and/or health is
often an effect of human trafficking and exploitation.
- To provide clients, for a maximum of seven days, with the basic material and
financial means required for day to day living, as well as the financial and
material means to resolve difficult living situations.
- 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 consequences 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.
