- To provide Accommodation for the kids (Children)
- Building and grooming the kids in a Christian way of Life of the fear of God.
- Children welfare
- Safety and Security
- Health - Education - Early Childhood Development (ECD)
- Nutrition - Private Care for girl Children (Sanitary Pads etc)
- Agriculture - Community development
- Master Social workers and Clinical Social worker- Nurse practitioners
- Church (Group work)
- Reunification services
- Care givers and Doctors -
- Counselors, psychology, Therapy, Teachers
Our Residential Care Facility is safe and secured as we are within a well protected
residential area and our facility has the following Safety and Security measures:
Brick wall fenced Building Structure
A strong gate which is always kept closed
Fire extinguishers in and out side of the Building
Security Cameras severance 24/7
Social Development Department clearance for all our Care Givers
All time and everyday care and supervision for the children
The Home Care Facility has Programmes that help the kids to grow in proper manner
and provide them with the necessary care suitable for parented kids such as follows:
- Residential Treatment Programme
- Family Reunification Programme
- Early Childhood Development Programme
- Foster Care Programme
- Independent Living Programme
3.1 Residential Treatment Programme – Intensive therapeutic intervention is
provided for the children and their families in view towards return placement of the
children to their families within a period of two years. The therapeutic interventions
include psychotherapy, play therapy and family therapy.
3.2 Family Reunification Programme – Provides long term residential care and
family reunification for children in need and provides intervention aimed at placing
them back into the community in the shortest possible time frame. This programme
works with families who have experienced long-term dysfunction and require longterm
intervention. Our sole purpose is in keeping families’ together wherever
possible. We work closely with parents by providing them with assessments, therapy
and parental skills. We also meet with the family every 3 months to make sure we
are still on track for family reunification.
3.4 Early Childhood Development Programme – Provides for the special needs of
children in residential care through early learning development, occupational
therapy, remedial and medical intervention.
3.5 Foster Care Programme – Aims at recruiting, screening and training potential
foster parents and to prepare the children for foster care. (Children which are either
orphaned, abandoned, vulnerable and or special needs children.)
3.6 Independent Living Programme – Provides long term residential care for
children who are unable to be reunited with their families or placed within their
extended family network and/or are not suitable candidates for foster care. This
programme has emphasis on life skills, education and training in preparation for
independent living in addition to maintaining strong community ties wherever
possible.
To support the care programmes we have the following programme and activities.
4.1 Daily Care and Personal Hygiene – Grace International Kids Home Care Centre
assist the children to learn how to take care for themselves, choose appropriate
clothing and take care of their personal hygiene.
4.2 Developmental – The individual child has their own IDP (individual development
plan) and will have the opportunity to develop emotionally, socially and
psychologically within a warm and caring environment that best meets their needs.
4.3 Education – Grace international ensures each child is able to obtain educational
opportunities that meet both their abilities and potential. We also provide assistance
with special educational needs and learning/studying support. Grace International
kids Home Facility Centre also have its own registered school named “Grace
International Day Care and Pre-school just opposite to the Home Facility Centre.
4.4 Life Skills – Grace International provides regular life skill programs to develop
self-confidence, team work, leadership, communication skills and other skills
depending on age.
4.5 Nutrition and Optimum Health – The children receive a well-balanced diet and
maintain good health. Some also need medical attention, including flu medication.
Grace International supplies each child with four meals a day. We also supply home
parcels for children that go home as most of the families come from destitute
environments.
4.6 Recreational Activities– Grace International has an open space for playing kids
soccer and with swings to simply play and enjoy themselves and have fun when not
doing chores or school work.
4.6 Spiritual nourishment – The children have a need (and right) to maintain ties to
their spiritual and/or religious heritage or to have new opportunities and to develop
their spiritual needs. As parents who are also Pastors, we have a Church which we
are founders; we therefore regularly hold Bible study, prayers and singing worship
and praises as part of religious activities with the kids.
4.7 Sports Activities – Grace International encourages the children to participate in
sporting activities and participate in such activities at their individual schools as well
as with other Non-Profiting organizations.
4.8 Therapy and Counselling – Grace International works with a multi-disciplinary
team where emotional resolution is attained through therapy. Each child is assigned
to a therapist to help them resolve past trauma and foster better coping
mechanisms.
4.9 Tracking and Tracing Program – As some children come to Grace International
with no family history or background, our social & childcare workers are tasked to
find their family in the community in order to communicate about our residential
care programmes.
5.1. INTAKE: In our intake programme, the organization accepts abandoned, abused,
lost, neglected, orphaned, and battered children.
5.2. FOSTER-CARE : Social Workers provide opportunities for vulnerable and
orphaned children to be legally placed in care with families/relatives or non-relatives.
Help the fostering parent(s) to apply and receive state grant to financially provide for
the needs of these children, including education.
5.3. ADOPTION: Social Workers provide parents-less kids with parents. The
programme also gives childless couples/individuals with the opportunity of
becoming parents.
5.4. CHILD ABUSE SERVICES: To provide abused children and their families with
medical care counselling and to create awareness about this act of crime. Where the
perpetrator (abuser) is known, Grace international Orphanage will also help and
support the family to open criminal charges against the abuser.
5.5. RESIDENTIAL CARE (CHILDREN’S HOME): We provide residential care to children
in need of care:
Provide Basic Needs: - Food, Shelter and Clothing.
Provide Health Care: - Cleanliness, Dental and Medical Care.
Provide Emotional Care: - Therapeutic Counselling and Love.
Provide Educational Care: - Academic and Socialization.
Provide Spiritual Care: - Moral issues, Christian Values and Accepted Norms.
5.6. PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION: We have pre-schools that provide a safe place for kids (between 3 to 10 years of age) whilst it is school days and during the week and after school they come back to the Home Facility Centre and every day they are taken to schools.
5.7. FAMILY REUNIFICATON: Social workers offer construction services to families (if there are any) of Children’s Home kids to ultimately reunite them with families/relatives. In this process we recruit foster parents or adoptive parents to give children homes.
5.8. FAMILY PRESERVATION: We also reach out to prevent the poor/troubled family from disintegrating, we support the family with therapeutic counselling, food parcels and school uniforms. We also teach them survival skills, including inviting mothers into our job-creation projects.
5.9. REMEDIAL EDUCATION: At the Home Care Centre, Care Givers, me and my husband and the helpers in the house that help with domestic work and supporting those with learning problems. Looking on their school works and progress, also communicating with their school teachers.
5.10. HOSTING PROGRAMME: We organize families/ individuals etc that can take in our Kids during school holidays, especially in festival seasons, thereby exposing them to the fun happening outside the home, like parks and so forth.
5.11. POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT: We provide training (Sewing Skills, Baking, Sales Business, Food Gardening, Hair Dressing, Cooking Skills, Marketing Skills, Care Giving) to poor unemployed families for the sustainability of the underprivileged children staying with them. We also provide relief in the form of food parcels when funds permit or when more food are given to us we share with the orphanage families outside our Home Centre (the ones that are in our data base.)
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