Examples of some of our work

Building resilience among vulnerable adolescents learners who have succumbed to violence or are at risk of vicimisation or pepetration.

 

• A weekly trauma informed thereapeutic  group programme for vulnerable adolescent boys and girls at school.
• Individual counselling sessions

• Integrated support plans for vulernable learners.

 

 

 

Building capacities of organisations working in challenged communities through training in trauma informed and conascious facilitation techniques. 

 

This includes:

• A 32 hours training programme on trauma informed concious facilitation techniques for practitioners. (Part 1);
• Emotional Containment, Protocols and Referral Pathways (Part 2);
• Enrichment programmes including: programe planning, monitoring and evaluation; developing a depper understanding of trauma repsonses and the nervous system; redefining masculunity and unpacking harmful gender and social norms that drive gender based violence.  

 

Our community of practice includes over 100 community facilitors who work in early learning envrionments, schools, child care, foster homes, civic and community associations, faith based structures, after care and youth development.  Our participants are drawn from across the Cape Flats including:  Mannenberg, Hanover Park, Lansdowne, Athlone,  Vrygrond, Capricorn, Lavender Hill, Mfuleni and Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Mitchellsplain, Du Noon, Delf, Woodstock, and Athlone.