ARE YOU CARING FOR A CHILD OR ADOLESCENT
WITH A SERIOUS ILLNESS
AND NEED RESPITE?

We will help you. Make it easier for you.

 Thanks to the stay relief services and the care of our professional team, you will get the necessary time for necessary activities or any activities that you cannot normally attend to.

 

 The construction of the House for Julia is over and from August 2024 we are providing respite services.

 We help parents and long-term carers to relax. Do not hesitate to turn to us with confidence. We are here for you and your child.

 

 Gather strength and leave the work of caregivers to us for a while. Our professional team of doctors, nurses, carers and social workers will provide the children with the necessary care during their stay. We will allow you to relax and get much needed time for yourself and your other loved ones.

 

 We are currently launching a residential respite service, we are preparing a palliative medicine clinic and hospice services for the final phase of a child's life.

 

Who is the accommodation relief service intended for?

 The mission of this service is to provide children, adolescents and young adults aged 1-26 with a life-limiting or life-threatening illness with compassionate and professional care focused on quality of life. The service is intended for citizens of the Czech Republic.

 

Highly individualized care

Our caregivers and nurses, in cooperation with doctor, will provide comprehensive care during the stay, in the mode of one dedicated employee for one single client. We adapt the care to the individual needs of clients, taking their state of health into account. With respect, reverence and professional experience, we help clients with personal hygiene, serving food, providing educational and activation activities, etc. The service also includes health care.

 

 Duration of provided care

 House for Julia is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and offers weekly, two-week or three-week stays.

 

 Device capacity

 The capacity of the respite service is 8 single rooms (4 rooms in operation from August 2024). Private rooms on the second floor are available for client’s companions.

 

 The house for Julia is completely barrier-free, set in a quiet environment in the heart of nature.

 

 Goals and principles of social service:

 • relieve the family of exhausting daily care

• minimize the impact of a serious illness on the client's family

• prevent social isolation of children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses and their families

• maintain and support psychomotor abilities and skills of clients

• offer clients suitable activation and relaxation activities

• apply a friendly, non-judgmental, empathetic and individual approach to the needs of clients and their families

 

 Payments for accommodation relief service

 As pes price list - downloadable below (according to the current reimbursement decree of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs). House for Julia co-finances the costs of stay and care mainly thanks to financial donations from the public.

 

 The service is provided at the Dům pro Julii facility at the address Trtílkova 297/5, Brno – Královo Pole, 612 00 (the access road leads through Divišova quarter). The building is located in the area of ​​the garden of the Home for the Elderly Kociánka. More about the building and construction.

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The procedure for accepting a client into the residential respite service:

 • contact the social worker of the House for Julia (see below)

• send the entry documents (see downloadable documents below)

• Your application will be assessed by the staff of the House for Julia

 • in case of a positive assessment of the application, you will be offered a date for a social and health examination

• a social-health investigation will take place

• you agree on the date of your stay and receive the information you need to start your stay

• check-in for the stay