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Personal Assistance 
Personal assistance is the fundamental social service which our trained assistants work in with people with physical or combined disabilities. The aim is to provide a free and active life in a natural environment based on their own wishes. We work in the form of managed assistance, which is organised by coordinators. A team of instructors in cooperation with HR manager undertake the training and hiring of new assistants.
Selected tasks of personal assistants
• Accompanying people when moving around the city and helping with finding the correct route.
• Assistance when attending to personal hygiene.
• Assistance when dealing with routine matters.
The main aim of the services of Asistence o.p.s. is to support active involvement in normal society, whether work, study or free time, including assistance in the running of the household.

Social Rehabilitation:

The programme offers support mainly to young people with physical or combined disabilities in the period of life changes, most commonly when transferring from school to employment and their next life stage, but also in later periods.
As a part of individual cooperation these people, with consultants, focus on, e.g. gaining experience on the open employment market (including finding work experience), living independently, utilising the services and support of people around them, actively using their free time, etc.
During this process consultants are only a support for the client while creating their own vision for their future life and implementing plans for their fulfilment. For such cooperation we use Person-centred Planning.
It means nothing more than we work with respect on our clients’ opinions and plans. We are purely guides on their journey to achieving their goals, which lead them to life satisfaction. We seek new possibilities with them, which do not only come from the current offer of services. We build on what the client can do, things in which they are strong and on specific support in order for them to manage everything they plan. For implementation of the plan and important life changes the client engages people around him/her.

Volunteering
The volunteer programme is aimed at free-time activities with clients because, as for every person, handicapped people also want to live a varied life, do sport and educate themselves in culture.
How and where volunteers help:
Accompanying our clients to cultural and social events (exhibitions, theatre, cinema, concerts, tearooms, cafes, etc.) and other free-time activities (groups playing the flute, swimming, various sports, etc.).
Taking part in Asistence’s client group free-time activities. Volunteers are becoming a part of the theatre group. They are assisting in creative workshops and can be a part of the client’s therapy support group. At these meetings they arrange further joint events such as trips, etc.
Trips to various parts of the Czech Republic. Volunteers travel together with clients in the summer on trips outside of Prague, to enjoy a festival or to relax in the countryside. In this way volunteers and clients have a better possibility to get to know each other (they travel, go for lunch and spend the whole day together).
Individual help for clients. This includes, for example, assisting during preparation for school, learning a foreign language, working on a computer, during individual free-time activities, during after-school clubs, just being at home or on a walk or trip. There is increasing interest in individual assistance from both young people with special needs and volunteers.