Sdruzeni Linka Bezpeci in Czech Republic

Sdruzeni Linka Bezpeci (Safety Line Association) is non-governmental nonprofit organization, which was established in 1994 by most renown Czech specialists in child care. Mission of the Association is to help children in the Czech republic who find themselves in difficult and crisis situation.

The service of Sdruzeni Linka Bezpeci is available for the whole week, 24 hours per day.

The goals of the Association include the creation and support of projects that would help to create an effective system of protection for children and young people in the Czech Republic, as well as to prevent negative social phenomena amongst children and adolescents.
The main projects of the Civic Association „Safety Line for Children and Adolescents" include the following:
• Safety Line
Safety Line is the main project of Safety Line Association. This is a telephone crisis help line intended for children and youth under 18 years of age, which they may call for free 24 hours a day. The Safety Line is pattered after the British ChildLine, which provided Safety Line with the necessary know-how in the beginning and training of the first consultants and the Safety Line team manager. Since its foundation on 1 September 1994, Safety Line has never interrupted operations and has been reliably listening to and helping children calling with their problems and concerns.
• Message Home Line
Message Home Line is a child crisis intervention line intended particularly for child runaways from home, children's or reformatory homes or children expelled from home. Juveniles who are not yet on the run, but a situation in the family, at school or children's or reformatory home is so acute that they are seriously considering running away, may also call this line. The last but not least group of children helped by the Message Home Line are children and juveniles who are afraid of returning home because of a comment in the pupil's report card or a lost mobile phone.
The Message Home Line started operation on 1 September 2003. It is available to callers every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and can be reached only from a fixed line. The line is operated by thirteen trained consultants including the manager of the Message Home Line.
• Internet Safety Line
The Internet Line started operation in 2001. Children who do not want or cannot use the phone to contact Safety Line and need advice or to confide their troubles to somebody can use this line. The most frequent topic of the questions was problems in family relationships.
Internet Line is available on e-mail address ilb@linkabezpeci.cz and it is operated by ten trained counsellors including the manager of the Internet Line. Counsellors are replying in 3 working days.
• Safety Line for Parents
The Parents' Line is another project of Safety Line Association. It provides help on the phone namely to parents seeking advice in connection with the upbringing of their children in the broadest sense of the word, as well as to grandparents or other relatives and adults if their call is inspired in the interest of the child. The line began operations on 2 April 2001 and is available twice a week in the afternoon and evening hours (Monday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesday 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.); starting from 2002 extraordinary hours of operation have been provided on the day of the final school report and from 2004 also on the day of the mid-year school report.
• Chat Safety Line chat.linkabezpeci.cz

You can find more information on the webpage www.linkabezpeci.cz