Agatha Center

About this project

<p>The applicant is the Diocesan Charity of České Budějovice (hereinafter DCHCB), which operates an Intervention Center (IC) in South Bohemia with branches in Č. Budějovice, Strakonice and Tábor. We follow up on the IC's long-term experience and practice with the target group of victims of domestic and gender-based violence ("victims"). The project responds to 1) insufficient coverage of southern Bohemia with accommodation capacities for victims, 2) the need for therapies for victims, 3) problematic availability of legal representation for victims. We will establish a new unique center for the victims in the hinterland of the city of Č. Budějovice – Agatha Centre. This is the main project output. The center will provide psychotherapeutic, legal, accommodation and other services. It will comprehensively work with the family system of users (ie not only with victims), as it is based on, f.e., research. We aim to broaden the existing support for children and adults to improve the supply and availability of professional assistance in the unfavorable situation associated with violence in the South Bohemia, respectively in the Czechia. The center will be created by the reconstruction of the premises available to the DCHCB from the Roman Catholic parish of Dobrá Voda. We will materially equip the center and staff it with professional and operational employees. We will create a set of innovative methodologies for working with "victims" and we will focus on education related to domestic violence and dissemination of information about the center activities. The project is ready from 1 January 2022 and planned for 28 months. DCHCB has at its disposal the admin. and techn. background for project implementation, the project management and the professional guarantor, who cooperate during the preparation, implementaion and sustainabiliity of the project.</p>