List of support services and projects addressing persons with special needs

Social welfare centres

What

A financial supplement for beneficiaries of assistance and care allowance, personal disability allowance, one-off financial assistance, grants for pupils and students with developmental difficulties

Where

Social welfare centres in Croatia: https://goo.gl/QQgN6S

Guide dogs

What

Rehabilitation programmes with guide dogs for the mobility of blind persons and other persons with disabilities, and for children with developmental difficulties.

Where

Croatian Guide Dog and Mobility Association: www.psivodici.hr/en

Hearing aids

What

Persons with damaged hearing who are insured with the Croatian Health Insurance Fund are entitled to hearing aids free of charge.

Where

Croatian Health Insurance Fund: http://www.hzzo.hr/en/

Borrowing medical and orthopaedic equipment

What

A HCK project enabling persons with disabilities to borrow medical and orthopaedic equipment that they would otherwise not be able to acquire.

Where

CROATIAN RED CROSS (HCK)
web: www.hck.hr

Day care

What

Satisfying the life needs of the beneficiaries: meals, maintenance of personal hygiene, healthcare, custody, upbringing, care, work activities, psycho-social rehabilitation, organising leisure time, organising transport.

Where

Social welfare centres: https://goo.gl/QQgN6S
More information: https://goo.gl/6VORmQ (in Croatian)

Early intervention service

What

Early intervention is a social service of professional motivational assistance for children and counselling assistance for their parents in cases of an established developmental risk or difficulty in the child.

Where

Social welfare centres: https://goo.gl/QQgN6S
More information: https://goo.gl/0h9mhW (in Croatian)

Assistance services for persons with disabilities

What

Personal assistance services, the service of interpreting/translating the Croatian sign language and the service of seeing-eye guides for blind persons.

Where

Social welfare centres in cooperation with associations of persons with disabilities.
More information: https://goo.gl/uzQhXc (in Croatian)