Debt and legal counselling

We will find out how much you owe and together will come up with the most suitable solution to resolve your situation.

List of Our Projects

VOL Komplexní program zaměstnanosti

Reg. No.: CZ.03.01.01/00/24_078/0005026

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s. is developing the outputs of past projects and, together with stakeholders, is presenting a comprehensive employment program for people serving prison sentences (VTOS) and after release (CS). It uses the training center at Jiřice Prison, where retraining will take place and the program will be supplemented with workshops focused on the labor market, employment, legal, and debt counseling. Under the guidance of mentors/case managers, CS will address other activities after release—training, employment, including accommodation, continuing to resolve debts, etc.

Start date: June 5, 2025, Expected Project End Date: April 31, 2027

VOL Without Invisible Victims

Reg. No.: CZ.03.02.02/00/24_066/0004673

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s. wants to use its previous experience from working with families at risk of imprisonment and children Invisible Victims and together with the actors focus on areas that are still insufficiently addressed - programs for children in children's homes, new programs for parents in VTOS, counseling centers for parents caring for children, support for the work of teachers who work with children, etc. The starting point is the identification of the needs of our target groups (CS) and an individual approach.

Start date: January 5, 2025, Expected Project End Date: October 31, 2027

GLM+

Reg. No.: CZ.03.03.01/00/23_051/0004708

The GLM+ project follows on from the INTENS project, which was dedicated to finding solutions to the main defined problems, which were the creation of a treatment program for perpetrators of sexually motivated crimes without paraphilia and the creation of a comprehensive service process (from screening to recruitment, motivation, etc.).

These prototypes will be developed into the final form of a therapeutic program for this target group and a comprehensive service process within the framework of the follow-up project VOLONTÉ CZECH, ops, in cooperation with key actors and stakeholders (DG VS ČR, NÚDZ, Pábení sro and others), the piloting of which will be directly participated by VS ČR, which will subsequently also use them within the framework of the treatment and therapy program for this target group.

The project is financed from the Operational Program Employment Plus.

Start date: January 1, 2025, Expected Project End Date: December 31, 2027

VOL Qualification and Employment

Reg. No.: CZ.03.01.01/00/23_056/0004021

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s. is building upon the outcomes of previous projects and presenting a solution to initiate change for low-skilled individuals in Group B (mostly those without completed primary education) who are serving prison sentences. As part of a comprehensive employment program, it will utilize the training center at Jiřice Prison for retraining and supplement the program with workshops focused on the labor market, work skills, legal advice, and debt counseling. Together with mentors, the target group will also address post-release activities, including training placements, employment, housing, and more.

Start date: October 1, 2024, Expected Project End Date: September 30, 2026

INTENS

Reg. No.: CZ.03.03.01/00/22_021/0001989

In this project, which we are implementing in collaboration with the General Directorate of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic (GŘVS ČR), we are addressing the identified issue of unmet needs among non-paraphilic offenders of sexually motivated crimes who are serving prison sentences. With the involvement of key actors (GŘ VS, prisons, National Institute of Mental Health, Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention, target group, etc.), we aim to leverage international experience. Under the guidance of a Service Designer, we will prepare prototypes of treatment programs and selection and motivation programs based on Human-Centered Design (HCD), which we will pilot on a small sample of the target group in four prisons.

More information about the project.

All outputs and created products are available for free download HERE:

intens_documents.zip

Start date: May 1, 2023, Expected end date: May 31, 2024

Application of the Good-Lives-Model in the Czech Prison System

Reg. No.: CZ.03.3.X/0.0/0.0/17_082/0011081

With this pilot project VOLONTÉ CZECH o.p.s. wants to try applying experience from abroad and on the basis of the Good Lives Model to prepare and test a new long-term therapeutic programme which will subsequently be standardised with the relevant stakeholders. This will be carried out drawing on our many years of experience working with people serving a prison sentence, where the need to address a high level of recidivism has been identified, particularly amongst the perpetrators of violent crimes.

Start date: 01. 08. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 07. 2022

Application of the Good-Lives-Model in the Czech Prison System

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Reg. No.: CZ.03.3.X/0.0/0.0/17_082/0011081

With this pilot project VOLONTÉ CZECH o.p.s. wants to try applying experience from abroad and on the basis of the Good Lives Model to prepare and test a new long-term therapeutic programme which will subsequently be standardised with the relevant stakeholders. This will be carried out drawing on our many years of experience working with people serving a prison sentence, where the need to address a high level of recidivism has been identified, particularly amongst the perpetrators of violent crimes.

Start date: 01. 08. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 07. 2022

Application of the Good-Lives-Model in the Czech Prison System

Reg. No.: CZ.03.3.X/0.0/0.0/17_082/0011081

With this pilot project VOLONTÉ CZECH o.p.s. wants to try applying experience from abroad and on the basis of the Good Lives Model to prepare and test a new long-term therapeutic programme which will subsequently be standardised with the relevant stakeholders. This will be carried out drawing on our many years of experience working with people serving a prison sentence, where the need to address a high level of recidivism has been identified, particularly amongst the perpetrators of violent crimes.

Start date: 01. 08. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 07. 2022

VOL Zaměstnání II

Reg. No.: CZ.03.1.48/0.0/0.0/18_090/0012399

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s. responds to the needs of the target group (inactive low-skilled persons, persons taking care of small children) in the ITI MB area in the field of employment. With our partner ProEduCo s.r.o. we have prepared a programme for min. 300 persons, which is aimed at increasing/restoring professional competences for the labour market, including retraining, normative and vocational courses, orientation to a suitable position, provision of debt/legal/work counselling, accompaniment/mentoring, job offers and accommodation for persons without social background, training places for persons without work habits, etc.

Start date: 01. 04. 2020, Expected end date: 31. 03. 2022

VOL Práci

Reg. No.: CZ.03.1.48/0.0/0.0/18_090/0012399

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s. develops the outputs of past projects and together with its partner and stakeholders presents a solution how to satisfy interested inmates (CS) in a comprehensive employment program from all prisons in the Czech Republic. Within the project we use the built training center in Jiřice Prison, where retraining will take place and complement the program with workshops focused on the labor market, employment, legal and debt counseling. Under the auspices of mentors, CS will also address post-release activities: training places, employment including accommodation, etc.

Start date: 01. 04. 2020, Expected end date: 31. 03. 2022

VOL Training

Reg. No.: CZ.03.1.48/0.0/0.0/18_090/0012399

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s., in collaboration with the DP WORK s.r.o. employment agency, responds to current needs on the labour market in the Karlovy Vary and Ústí regions in the vicinity of the Kynšperk nad Ohří, Horní Slavkov and Všehrdy prisons. This project involves a specific employment programme for low-skilled people with no work experience who are serving a sentence in these prisons. The project includes retraining, the development of basic skills for the labour market and counselling, aimed at helping such people find a job.

Start date: 01. 04. 2020, Expected end date: 31. 03. 2022

Application of the Good-Lives-Model in the Czech Prison System

Reg. No.: CZ.03.3.X/0.0/0.0/17_082/0011081

With this pilot project VOLONTÉ CZECH o.p.s. wants to try applying experience from abroad and on the basis of the Good Lives Model to prepare and test a new long-term therapeutic programme which will subsequently be standardised with the relevant stakeholders. This will be carried out drawing on our many years of experience working with people serving a prison sentence, where the need to address a high level of recidivism has been identified, particularly amongst the perpetrators of violent crimes.

Start date: 01. 08. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 07. 2022

VOL Training

Reg. No.: CZ.03.1.48/0.0/0.0/18_090/0012399

VOLONTÉ CZECH, o.p.s., in collaboration with the DP WORK s.r.o. employment agency, responds to current needs on the labour market in the Karlovy Vary and Ústí regions in the vicinity of the Kynšperk nad Ohří, Horní Slavkov and Všehrdy prisons. This project involves a specific employment programme for low-skilled people with no work experience who are serving a sentence in these prisons. The project includes retraining, the development of basic skills for the labour market and counselling, aimed at helping such people find a job.

Start date: 01. 04. 2020, Expected end date: 31. 03. 2022

VOL Life without Recidivism

Reg. No.: CZ.03.1.48/0.0/0.0/18_090/0012375

Based on its experience with people serving a prison sentence and people released from prison VOLONTÉ CZECH o.p.s., together with the DP WORK s.r.o. employment agency, is elaborating on the results from previous projects and together with stakeholders is drafting an employment programme, including employment while in prison and following release from prison. It is complemented by the Open Prison pilot project of the Ministry of Justice, concerning retraining, employment and debt counselling and employment, including post-penitentiary care for those released from prison.

Start date: 01. 01. 2020, Expected end date: 31. 12. 2021

I Need my Mum

Reg. No.: CZ.03.2.X/0.0/0.0/17_076/0011449

VOLONTÉ Czech o.p.s. wants to draw on its past experience of work with vulnerable families and children, including the findings of its partner, the Centre for the Integration of Children and Young People (Centrum integrace dětí a mládeže, CID), and pilot a new service aimed at strengthening the parental competencies of mothers serving a sentence at Světlá nad Sázavou prison – through regular contact with their children and gaining an awareness of their own responsibility, which will strengthen the mother’s role in relationships within the family.

Start date: 01. 11. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 10. 2021

Invisible Walls Kuřim

Reg. No.: CZ.03.2.X/0.0/0.0/17_076/0011429

In this project VOLONTÉ Czech o.p.s. responds to the to the threat of the possible break-up or alienation of families who have a father serving a prison sentence. Within the framework of this project the grant beneficiary draws on its past experience of work with at-risk families and children, including the findings of its partner, the Centre for the Integration of Children and Young People (Centrum integrace dětí a mládeže, CID), as well as "know how" from the Invisible Walls Wales project. The project will include the piloting of a new service aimed at getting fathers serving a sentence in Kuřim prison permanently involved in family problems through the use of mentors. The planning of this completely new service will cement and synergize family and parental relationships without the restrictions imposed by prison walls.

Start date: 01. 10. 2019, Expected end date: 30. 09. 2021

VOL Nový start

Registrační číslo projektu: CZ.03.2.60/0.0/0.0/18_088/0010689

During the course of this pilot project VOLONTÉ Czech o.p.s., in collaboration with the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic, will provide comprehensive services for clients of selected centres of the Probation and Mediation Service in Central and North Bohemia. Clients will have access to services including debt, legal and employment counselling free of charge. The aim of the project is not only to change the status of the target group in society and on the labour market, but also to gauge the effectiveness of the programme.

Start date: 01. 10. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 03. 2022

VOL HELP

Reg. No.: CZ.03.2.60/0.0/0.0/16_049/0010522

VOLONTÉ Czech o.p.s., together with other regional stakeholders, responds to the needs of the Mladá Boleslav (MB) Integrated Territorial Development Plan Strategy and implements a project focused on the target group (TG) of 300 heavily-indebted people and people serving or who have served a prison sentence, where it is planning a programme to increase their changes on the legal labour market free of debt and in society, free of recidivism. With regard to the TG’s problem of excessive debt the project involves the Chamber of Executors of the Czech Republic as a methodical partner with no financial contribution.

Start date: 01. 05. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 03. 2022

VOL HELP II

Reg. No.: CZ.03.2.60/0.0/0.0/16_049/0014430

VOLONTÉ Czech o.p.s., together with other regional stakeholders, responds to the needs of the Mladá Boleslav Integrated Territorial Development Plan Strategy, follows up on the previous project “VOL Pomoc” CZ.03.2.60/0.0/0.0/16_049/0010522 and focuses on problems experienced by people at risk of social exclusion or socially excluded persons.

Start date: 01. 01. 2020

VOL Employment

Reg. No.: CZ.03.1.48/0.0/0.0/16_046/0010320

This project responds to the employment-related needs of the target group (TG) in the Mladá Boleslav Integrated Territorial Development Plan and in cooperation with partners - DP WORK s.r.o. (DPW) and South East Asia - liaison, z.s. (SEA-l, formerly Klub Hanoi) has prepared a programme for the low-skilled inactive TG (particularly for released returning prisoners) and immigrants/foreign nationals who come to the region on the basis of work permits arranged by employers.

Start date: 01. 02. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 01. 2022

Crisis Counselling Centre at Karlín Community Centre

Reg. No.: CZ.07.3.63/0.0/0.0/17_051/0000688

With this project, VOLONTÉ Czech o.p.s., together with its partners – the Centre for the Integration of Children and Young People (Centrum integrace dětí a mládeže, z. s.), district of Prague 8, and DP WORK s.r.o. and other stakeholders, responds to new impulses acquired during the implementation of the existing Karlín Community Centre project and intends to create and implement a Crisis Counselling Centre for people at risk of social exclusion or excluded persons (people in prison or after release from prison and their families, children from children’s homes in Prague, the homeless, mothers of sex workers).

Start date: 01. 01. 2019, Expected end date: 31. 12. 2020

VOL Technical focus

Project registration number: CZ.03.1.51/0.0/0.0/17_081/0011629

The project responds to the problem of low-qualified women in prison in Světlá nad Sázavou with regard to women from the Roma minority and Roma origin (CS). The applicant VOLONTÉ CZECH,o.p.s. in cooperation with the prison staff prepared a program addressing the issue of increasing the qualifications of these people in the form of professional qualifications and the possibility of better financial inclusion in the labor market with a reference from the prison and a certificate of professional qualification. This can eliminate the wage imbalance in the labour market for this CS.

Start date: 01.07.2020, Expected end date: 30.06.2022

VOL Change

Project registration number: CZ.03.1.51/0.0/0.0/17_081/0011627

The project analyses, identifies and responds to the gender imbalance in the automotive labour market in the Czech Republic. We focus on women at risk in the labour market, including low-skilled women and women on MD/RD, so that they can advance in their career plan and get higher financial evaluation.

Datum zahájení: 01. 07. 2020, Předpokládané datum ukončení: 30. 6. 2022

VOL Helping the over-indebted

Project registration number: CZ.03.2.X/0.0/0.0/20_139/0017157

A project to support over-indebted people, where we plan to involve up to 445 people together with the involved actors (Pankrác Prison, Ruzyně Prison, PMS Prague, Centre for Integration of Children and Youth, etc.). The main problem to which the project responds is the debts, foreclosures and general over-indebtedness of many of our fellow citizens and especially the inability to resolve the situation without professional help. We want to include social workers from non-profit organisations who have also expressed interest in the programme to strengthen the competences of social workers. We see innovative elements in the interconnectedness and synergy of the proposed activities that we would like to test.

Start date: 01.07.2021, Expected end date: 30.06.2023

A child’s first visit to prison

The Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic has provided a non-investment grant from the 2020 Czech state budget within the framework of the grant title Programme to Support Work with Families Serving Prison Sentences. Our experience of working with women and men serving prison sentences shows that those who maintain regular contact with their children face a much lower risk of recidivism than people who have no contact with their children. The aim of the project is in line with the call’s grant priority, i.e. to establish, maintain and strengthen contact between clients serving prison sentences and their minor children (at least 120 mothers in prison plus at least 120 fathers in prison).