Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 114-119).

I am about to devote this dissertation to the issues of social services planning in Písek as a provincial city with focus on handicapped people. My aim is to find out whether and under what conditions it would be possible to extend a timeframe of elaborated strategies at least to 15 years. Theoretical part is divided into four chapters. Firstly, I follow conception of social politics and social welfare during the time with future outlook. Then, the area of social services is being analysed - describing their evolution, legislative frame, interpretation of quality and ways of funding. Third chapter is dedicated to community planning, its foundations and principles. In last chapter I tend to target group - handicapped people. The aim of practical part is to find out not only under what conditions the timeframe of planning can be widen but also how exactly is social services planning being done and whether this process evolves towards better quality. All this by means of semistructured interviews with seven participants of social services planning in Písek. Respondents have been selected from the side of demand municipality of Písek and supply representants of non-governmental nonprofit organizations, church and region-donated organizations. Their posts varied from higher management to work force, both in current and previous years. Survey refers to demographic analysis of target group, respondents view of current planning timeframe´s sufficiency and whether quality level of that process is rising. Evaluated interviews showed that demographic analysis were professionally set up and last community planning in given area was significantly more successful compared with previous terms. This was achieved through cooperation with non-profit organization, its methodist and outside supervisor. Extension of current social planning timeframe can be possible, according to respondents, only if a long-term state-wide strategy gets formed, being regularly updated with action plans added for up to five years long period. Main obstacles for this are frequent changes in legislative and the issue of turbulent circumstances considering target group like people in crisis. However, for handicapped people and senior citizens extending the timeframe might be more possible considering stable situation and therefore usability of long-term statistical predictions.

The aim of this thesis is to compare various options, how can companies meet the mandatory proportion of employment of handicapped people and also analyze tax impacts on companies considering the particular option they have chosen. The thesis is divided into five chapters, first of them is about free labor market and describes various options, how can companies meet the mandatory proportion of employment of handicapped people. Then the second chapter contains information about employers of handicapped people in protected labor market. The next chapter refers to so called protected working place, which is directly related to the possibility to receive purposeful contribution from the state. The last chapter of the theoretic part of the thesis is about tax relief for companies that employ handicapped people. Subject of the practical part of the thesis is to analyze accounting and tax data of real company and try to modify them based on hypothetical situation what will be changed in case of employment of handicapped person in this company. There are mainly tax impacts on the company analyzed.

This investigation is concerned with determining the extent of involvement by fifteen Texas municipal parks and recreation departments in providing programs for senior citizens, the mentally retarded, the physically handicapped, and the emotionally disturbed.

[pt] É na calçada que começa a cidadania, permitindo ao homem ter acesso aos bens e serviços que a sociedade produz. Porem uma grande parcela da sociedade encontra no seu cotidiano, barreiras culturais, físicas e de informação, que as impedem de exercer a cidadania plena. Infelizmente, a maioria dos espaços abertos públicos é projetada desconsiderando a diversidade humana. Portanto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo conhecer as necessidades espaciais das pessoas com restrição, a fim de promover a melhoria da qualidade de vida da população através da implantação da Rota Acessível, no centro de Juiz de Fora, MG, eliminando as barreiras arquitetônicas, privilegiando a Acessibilidade aos espaços urbanos em áreas abertas de circulação, considerando a ergonomia e os conceitos do Desenho Universal. / [en] Citizenship has its beginning on the sidewalks, allowing the man to access the goods and services that society produces. However, in daily life, a large part of our society faces cultural, physical and information barriers, which hold this share of society from exerting full citizenship. Unfortunately, the majority of public opened spaces are projected regardless human diversity. Therefore, this research s purpose is to know the spatial needs of handicapped people, in order to improve their life quality through the Accessible Route s implantation, in Juiz de Fora (State of Minas Gerais) s Downtown, eliminating architectonic barriers, to privilege the Accessibility to urban spaces in opened circulation areas, considering the ergonomics and the concepts of Universal Design.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf [154-159]).

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-177).

Nowadays, namely at the beginning of the third millennium, every individual is entitled to free choice of occupation and acquisition of the means to satisfy his/her necessaries of life. Even the handicapped people have the same rights as the other citizens and they therefore have not only the right to a special (adapted, modified) conditions of work, but also to assistance in the preparation for employment. Work rehabilitation serves to this purpose. In particular the individual plan of work rehabilitation is designed for the clients {--} handicapped persons. The objective of my work was to describe the specific steps and procedures leading to integration of physically disadvantaged persons within the open labour market, in particular to describe the existing methods enabling the evaluation of the current health potential of the handicapped client as a precondition of integration on the labour market. The determination of qualitative research was the key point of the work. I focused in my work on the research in the region of Chomutov and Žatec, carried out from September 2008 till December 2008 in Chomutov. The persons involved in the project are long-term unemployed job applicants with a certain size of disability.

In choosing the subject of this degree work I was led by the effort to give an exhaustive integral report on the development in the sphere of the social and health care and to analyze the facilities for social sevices in the region of Příbram. As it is not possible to evaluate the facilities for social services without the description of basic historical events, of current demographic indexes and without the indication of the future development, the historical part together with the specification of particular groups threatened with social exclusion (seniors and handicapped people) forms an indispensable chapter of the theoretical part of this degree work. In connection with the fact that the region of Příbram is a specific industrial locality with signs of changes in the original structure of the population, it is possible to state that the people moved herein show less family solidarity and unity with each other. For that reason more facilities for social services are at disposal in this region. It is the unity care service rendered not only in own homes but directly in the houses of the clients as well, that has the oldest tradition among all providers The family nursing care rendered by one of two organizations has already the tradition of more than 15 years too. As to the care of seniors, the most significant provider that is the allowance organization "Pečovatelská služba města Příbram". This organization offers field care service and runs the home for seniors.The service, that supports especially the security of the seniors in their households, that is AREÍON-Život 90 with about 50-60 clients.A great advantage is also the fact that a part of providers of social and associated services have the seat at the same place, in the Community Centre. As to the care of handicapped people the strongest point are the family care CHOPS and SANCO, the field care service and other services rendered by "Pečovatelská služba města Příbram", the activities of unions and organizations associating handicapped people, assistance services and consultancy, community centre Příbram VII, day centre in the town nursery school and in the rehabilitation short stay hospital It is not simple to prognosticate further development as to rendering social services a relatively active social policy on the local level and a large extent of collaboration among particular groups of those, who provide social services, are promising and hopeful for the future.An important role will play the fact whether these organizations will obtain sufficient financial means needed for ensuring the services, they offer, within the sphere of multisorce financing. The demand for services and staffs meeting the requirements fixed by the Act on social services will be of great importance too.

Support of independent housing is a field service of social care. Support of independent housing is provided to people with a health handicap or a chronic disease including a mental disease. The diploma thesis is focused on provision of this service to mentally handicapped people. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis summarizes the most important topics relating to mentally handicapped people. The theoretical part also describes the social service consisting in support of independent housing, and other additional and consequential integration tools. The objective of the thesis is to analyze the current state of providing the service consisting in support of independent housing to mentally handicapped people in the Czech Republic in respect of the conditions set by the service providers for the service provision, the methods of the service provision and the structure of the service users. The research was conducted quantitatively, using an interrogation method (a questionnaire technique) and a method of the current state analysis, in particular through the register of social services providers.