ADOPTION PROJECT (Community Mobilisation)
Direct Impact : 2790 victims
Mobilising community groups to adopt and assist SAPS Family Violence,Child Protection and Sexual Offences Units and Sexual Offences Courts. Current adoptions include:
3 FCS Units (WC), 15 FCS Units (Gauteng) and 3 SOCA Courts (Gauteng). With more than 100 volunteers involved in this project.
Assisted with:
• Supplied 2 590 comfort packs to units.
• More than 100 visits to units.
• 3 Team Building events (220 members)
• Christmas gifts for victims and members (160).
• Victim trauma counselling (20 victims).
Various other product and services support.
CHILD FRIENDLY REPORTING FACILITIES (Community Mobilisation)
Direct Impact: 13 800 (children)
Minimising secondary abuse by creating child-friendly reporting facilities or rooms at police stations or hospitals. Including audio-visual recording facilities and two-way mirror, waiting area, assessment &monitoring room. Full facilities implemented:
Western Cape (3), Gauteng (6),
Child Friendly Rooms:
Western Cape (2), Gauteng (12)
SPECIALISED TRAINING (Education)
Indirect Impact : 12000 plus victims (Children and adults)
Training of officers of the law in special skills and legal aspects needed to deal with rape and abuse victims. In the Western Cape 40 detectives were trained and in the Gauteng 550 detectives and forensic social workers were trained in Mentorship, Abandoned Baby, Children’s Act Western Cape et.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS TRAINING (Education)
Indirect Impact : 5000 Children and adults
Training of medical practitioners in the specially developed course, Forensic Medical examination of child abuse and rape victims and expert witnessing in court. In both Gauteng and the Western Cape more than 60 doctors were trained.
COMFORT PACKS (Victim support)
Direct Impact : 850
Supplying comfort packs to SAPS FCS officers and rape clinics to give to the child when the crime is first reported. The pack contains items that will emotional, physical and emergency needs of the child. Nearly 4000 packs were supplied in 2011.
UNIQUE PROJECTS (Advocacy and crime prevention)
Indirect Impact : 300 000 Plus
Awareness, advocacy, crime prevention, support and training projects. Includes national media campaigns, community awareness projects, implementation of child protection policies etc.
INCENTIVE AWARDS (Lobbying)
Indirect impact : 850 child victims
Awarding Gauteng Child Protection Detectives who have gone beyond the call of duty in helping child victims by hosting a bi-annual award ceremony. 40 Detectives were honoured during the last year.
TRAINING FORENSIC SOCIAL WORKERS (Education)
Indirect Impact : 10 000 plus children
To assist the forensic social workers based at the FCS units by hosting training courses to be better equipped in dealing with child abuse cases. In the Western Cape MAB completed the training of 140 social workers. In Gauteng a Compassion Fatigue Workshop was hosted for 25 forensic Social workers.
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