Counselling Service
Trauma counselling, School counselling and Lay counselling
Objective
We aim to provide children, parents and other caregivers access to quality counselling services and training inputs in order to build healthy individuals, families and communities.
Trauma Counselling
The main goal is that victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking live productively, independently and are restored to dignity. We provide the psycho-social support component of the After Care Program by working closely with girls to promote long-term recovery and future self-reliance Our focus is to help women and girls cope with their backgrounds of sexual abuse and exploitation so that they can be seamlessly reintegrated back into society.
- Provide for counselling therapy to help them heal emotionally from trauma suffered during abuse
- Prevent vulnerability to be re-trafficked through life skills training, and emotional preparedness to result in social and financial independence.
Enable them to live a life of confidence and freedom by enhancing social skills through Group work
School Counselling
- Harmful behavior like aggression, fights, use of foul language, missing class, bullying, teasing.
- Unhealthy relationships with parents, peers, opposite sex including poor choices leading to multiple break ups.
- Poor performance in academics viz. learning disability, slow learning, lack of concentration, failure in timely submission of school project, lack of goals.
Community Counselling
Our mental health awareness program into the community helps us identify, counsel and care for those suffering from poor mental health. They are then referred to our cadre of lay counsellors for counselling. The lay counselling helps in both ways-identification of cases that require referrals to professionals viz. psychologists and/or psychiatrists and also follow ups from psychologist/psychiatrist for regular assessments from their family and community. Hence effective task shifting helps to reduce disease burden in our under resourced settings.
Since this is a critical objective in our program we have trained our health workers to develop relationships with the Government mental infra structure and also other private partnerships.
