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We are incorporated into the Memorial Institute for Child
Health and Development one-stop child-friendly centre, that allows
for easy accessibility and referrals to other services. We provide
multi-cultural and language-sensitive support that celebrates the
diversities of our clients.
We also offer group counselling for adolescent and adult
survivors of sexual abuse.
GROUP COUNSELLING:
Group counselling is an effective method of helping to heal the
wounds of violence against children. The following groups,
reaching approximately 1 000 children and their parents, were
expertly run by our professional staff:
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Life Skills for 25 teenagers -
6 sessions.
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Teenage survivors of rape and
sexual abuse - 9 sessions.
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Child survivors of rape and
sexual abuse - 8 sessions.
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Child sexual offenders - 12
sessions.
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Focus group research on young
people's attitudes to sexual violence.
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Katorus survivors of sexual
abuse.
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Katorus economic empowerment
group - trained in home industry.
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Katorus boy child survivors of
sexual abuse.
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Katorus child survicors of abuse.
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Kidz Court Support in
conjunction with the Teddy Bear Clinic - 477 children and 383
parents.
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Tembisa Dinaledi tsa Childline Gauteng
(Stars of Childline Gauteng) treatment group for 6 sexually abused
young girls.
HIGHLIGHTS:
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Training of 25 crisis counsellors
- the majority of them African language speakers.
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Working collectively to implement
the Protocol on Sexual Abuse.
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Input into the SA Human Rights
Commission's enquiry into child sexual abuse.
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Participating in the Gauteng Plan
of Action for National Children's Day event at Zoo Lake,
attended by approximately 100 000 youths.
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Saspcan Conference on the
disabled child.
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Susie Orman address at Regina
Mundi Church.
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Input into the Sexual Offences
Act and the Child Care Act.
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End of year celebration for
the Childline Gauteng volunteers at Gino's.
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A pilot project for adolescent
perpetrators of sexual abuse.
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Forensic assessments and
medico-legal reports, court reports and court support for
physically and sexually abused children.
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Referral services for all
child-related problems.
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