3 June 2011
Dear Zwe and Grant,
It was such a delight reading the feedback report from your implementation of Family Support submitted by Pinky. What a wise decision to have those trained pair up to facilitate the sessions together and ideal to have you Zwe, available simply to offer support. The feedback makes it clear that your facilitators understood and held an emotional safe space for caregivers. There seems to have been much integrity in the way that they facilitated hard discussions, offered support, motivated participants to engage with the play skills, encourage emotional connections with their children and hold the overall process. Well done!! 50 caregivers were reached through this group work process and in turn, a greater number of children reached back in their households. This is the power of Family Support.
We would like to encourage you to continue to offer Family Support to the caregivers you work, even if you plan to run one group a quarter. Family Support is great for the children in your centre, but is also a fantastic prevention programme as it strengthens families before they unravel. We also want to acknowledge that Ethembeni does a lot to provide emotional support to those who are doing the work and this is to be commended as it is not often seen.
dlalanathi is so privileged to be in partnership with Ethembeni. Your desire to serve children and families professionally, your commitment under difficult circumstances and your constant ability to celebrate the transformation and change that you see is a gift.
With gratitude,
Robyn
dlalanathi Operations Director goto www.dlalanathi.org.za
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