of the diploma paper Author: Bc. Zdeňka Švédová PASTORAL CARE OF AT-RISK YOUTH IN SALESIANS YOUTH CENTRES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC. Presented paper deals with an implementation of salesian pastoral work with at-risk youth in the salesian youth centres in the Czech Republic. It studys how way a youth centre responds to needs of the youth progress. Term "pastoral work" is a starting-point of thesis. Author sees the sense of the term as all Church activities for salvation of the people. The first part of the paper deals with the term "Pastoral", with disadvantages of contemporary children and youth, and with characters of salesian pastoral work. In the folowing part the author presents salesian works, especially youth centres for at- risk youth. A qualitative research is presented in the last part. It is analysis of the interviews with the youthworkers. Finally author evaluates the results of the analysis of the pastoral work in the youth centres. Klíčové pojmy: - pastorace "pastoral work" - výchova "education" - znevýhodněné děti a mládež "at-risk chidren and youth" - salesiánská pastorace mládeže "salesian pastoral work" - kvalitativní výzkum "qualitative research"

The thesis deals with school educational programs of institutions which organize free time activities for children and youth in Pilsen and in Blovice. The first part characterises school educational programs, free time education or institutions which organize free time activities.The beginning of this first part deals with law of free time education in school system, forms of free time education and then it deals with process of making the school educational programs, their content and structure. In practical part there is a specification of selected institutions which organize free time in which the research was done. There are the research characteristics, questions and methods of the research. Next part analyses and compares school educational programs in selected organizations which work with free time activities for children and teenagers. The aim of the practical part is to compare information which is written in school educational programs and assess the quality and quantity of detected data. At the end there are results of this research and résumé.