P-centrum, spolek

description of organisation

P-centrum is one of the key organizations in social services in the Olomouc County. Since 1994 we help people in the Olomouc region (ca 636 500 inhabitants) and currently focus on two main
problems:
1) Family strengthening – long-term work with psycho-socially disadvantaged parents and their children aged 6–15 and Primary prevention for schools and providing support for teachers.
2) Counselling, treatment and integration of persons endangered by drug dependence.

P – centrum is a multi-purpose expert facility. The organization is divided into 5 individual departments with the following activities:
1. The Aftercare program: We help people who are coming from their long term residential treatment of addiction. We help them to start new healthy life. We offer them to stay in our flats for maximum 8 months, help them to find a job, start a new career, start new life in a new city with new friends and healthy hobbies.
Its aim is providing services reinforcing the stability and positive changes in the clients which they have acquired in the treatment programme leading to their re- integration into society.
2. Outpatient Counselling Programme:
Anyone who has problems with alcohol or drugs abuse or people whose relatives have, can come to our center for counselling and help.
3. Primary Prevention Centre of Risk Behaviour:
• We organize programmes for schools to prevent the development of risk behavior by pupils - individuals who have not been threatened by the risk behavior yet. For example the prevention of use
of addictive substances by pupils who have not had any contact with drugs so far. We also make programmes to prevent the emergence, development and persistence of risk behavior by pupils threatened by the risk behavior. For example the prevention of the development of drug addiction by persons who already use drugs. We also intervene in selected schools to prevent health disorders and social difficulties resulting from the risk behavior. For example to prevent serious or permanent health or social damages resulting from the use of drugs.
4. Family Centre U Mloka provides Family strengthening – social activation services for families with children. It is a long-term work with psycho-socially disadvantaged children aged 6–15 and their parents or legal representatives. We also provide Mediation in Family Law Conflicts.
5. Gallery U MLOKA: The gallery activities are further on directed on various social and interest groups. Gallery is a place of informal meetings and presentations of mainly visual, but also musical and literary arts activities of young people. We work on preparing and organizing regular activities / most of them in cooperation with volunteers. We organize exhibitions, concerts, workshops, film screenings and accompanying program. web: https://www.facebook.com/geniusmloci/

P-centrum is situated in the city center - in the historical building in Lafayettova street. The gallery consists of one room in the ground floor which is also the gallery office and two romantic and impressive vaulted rooms in the underground - down the stairs, + 2 small storerooms. In the first (entrance) room there is a place for the volunteers' - desk. The volunteer will be given a place to work,
notebook and all necessary facilities. There is also an office with copier and all office supplies in the ground floor. The gallery is situated in the building where other activities of P-centrum take place. In the whole building there are offices, 3 consultation rooms and 2 training rooms for group activities for children (one) and for activities for our aftercare program clients.

There are currently 24 employees + app 50 freelancers + 40 volunteers / year. The foreign volunteer will be in touch with our Czech volunteers - there are 4 volunteers in the gallery programme,
10 volunteers in the Family Centre U Mloka and 2 in the he Aftercare Centre in one time. They are mostly university students. The volunteer will always work in cooperation with our permanent stuff.