The intervention team helps the Prague homeless: Treatments, dormitories and communication assistance Company News Pražská Drbna
The intervention team, which is now available to homeless people in Prague, will now go out of service about five times a day. The team works with health professionals and social workers who assist homeless people in, for example, hospital care. The intervention team has been operating since December 2021 as part of winter humanitarian measures aimed at homeless people living in Prague. Its activities are coordinated by the Center for Social Services in Prague (CSSP), whose director is Martin Šimáček.
Solving a difficult life situation and helping with communication
“Most often, the intervention team is called through the CSSP dispatch center to teaching hospitals on internal or accident emergency departments, where a homeless person has been admitted and admitted and for whom it is necessary to provide additional assistance outside the medical facility,“He said Simacek.
After the treatment of a homeless person in a hospital or after his hospitalization in a medical facility, he offers the members of the intervention team the possibility of overnight stays in dormitories and hostels. There, people can relax in the heat, rehabilitate themselves and also be helped to deal with their difficult life situation. The intervention team’s task is also to help facilitate communication between hospital staff and the homeless person being treated.
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The number of hits is rising
The intervention team now consists of a nurse, a social worker and a driver of the medical vehicle. They currently travel an average of five times in one full shift. However, according to the director of CSSP, the number of interventions is gradually increasing due to the developing cooperation with medical and social services facilities in the capital. At present, according to Šimáček, all teaching hospitals in Prague and several non-teaching hospitals in the metropolis are cooperating with the intervention team.
The CSSP, which is a contributory organization of the capital, the non-profit organization Naděje a R-Mosty and the rescue service Hippocampus, participates in the activities of the intervention team.
Hostels, hostels and special residential facilities
Homeless people can spend the night in dormitories and facilities all day long, run by organizations such as Hope, the Salvation Army, CSSP and the Archdiocesan Charity Prague. This winter season, 539 beds are available in the homeless facilities. Prague provides homeless accommodation in four rented hostels with a total capacity of 220 people. Homeless people can cope with coronavirus infection in a special residential facility operated by CSSP in Vyšehrad. According to information on the organization’s website, about 70 percent is now occupied.
About 500 homeless people will be able to sleep in dormitories and similar facilities in Prague in the winter. The dormitories will open on December 1 in extended winter operation. In the winter months, capacity will also increase and the operating hours of low-threshold …