Possibilities of follow-up social services for users with multiple disabilities over 18 years from České Budějovice and surroundings

The aim of this diploma thesis was to map a current range of social services for users with multiple disabilities over 18 years from České Budějovice and the surrounding area and also to find an interest in individual types of social services from a perspective of their legal representatives. The theoretical part deals with a concept of the combined disability and its basic division. Further it devotes in detail to social services that are determined for clients with multiple disabilities over 18 years. A part of the theoretical there is also a list of organizations currently providing social services for this target group in České Budějovice and surroundings. A conclusion of the theoretical part devotes to a community planning, its history and present days in the South Bohemian region as well as directly in the town of České Budějovice. The practical part has been processed by a quantitative research method, specifically in a form of an anonymous questionnaire survey and it provides a comprehensive information on a fact, which social services are currently used by the legal representatives of the users with multiple disabilities over 18 years from České Budějovice, what services they are in future interested in and how they would imagine their functioning. This part also summarizes information how the legal representatives of users with combined disabilities over 18 years participate in an establishment of new social services and it maps their awareness of the community planning. The conclusions of the diploma thesis should serve as a feedback to organizations providing social services for users with multiple disabilities over 18 years. Furthermore, they could be used as a source for the community plan and to help for an extension of the offer of provided social services in České Budějovice