Presentation

Education, Work and Care Centre Dobrna is a social care institution for children, adolescents and adults with moderate, severe and profound disorders in their physical and mental development We provide full-day or day care for users of our services.

We provide

• institutional care of children and adolescents,
• education according to the Special education programme for children and youngsters up to the age of 26,
• institutional care of adults,
• employment under specific conditions,
• health care and medical rehabilitation.

Our vision

To become and remain the best centre in Europe for providing the entire scope of health and social care services required by people with special needs.

Our mission

We realize the vision of our Centre by providing a wide range of services. Our employees are encouraged to express their ideas; the right ones are put into practice.

Our values

• We appreciate positive experience.
• We tackle problems bravely and search for solutions.
• We do not tolerate disrespectful attitude towards users of our services and our employees.
• Reckless and arrogant conduct is unwelcome in our institution.
• We invest in the development of our staff and equipment and cooperate with experts to achieve additional competences for professional work with users.
• We perform our tasks with enthusiasm and we want to be the best in what we do.
• Communication is our obligation, information is intended for all our employees providing services for our residents.
• We take time for conversation, for listening to the users and hearing them.

Users and providers of services

The users of our services are children, adolescents and adults with moderate, severe and profound disorders in their physical and mental development. Their abilities, needs and additional disturbances differ greatly, and they partially or entirely depend on assistance from others. They need professional guidance to be able to develop basic skills and competences as well as acquire and maintain knowledge and habits essential for everyday life. Experts in specific fields of education participate in the development and maintenance of their mental and physical competences (a specialized and rehabilitation teacher, a social pedagogue, a physical education teacher, an art teacher ...), an occupational therapist, a physiotherapist, a psychologist, a social worker, a computer scientist, a librarian, an occupational trainer, a nurse and a caregiver. External staff - medical specialists like a paediatrician, a dentist, an orthopaedist, a paedopsychiatrist and a psychiatrist - participates in the comprehensive treatment.

Our centre covers the needs for institutional care of children and adults in the Celje region.