Under the Healing the Hurt project we also run two Victim Empowerment Centers. These centers are situated within Eldorado Park. At these centers the Eldorado Park Women's Forum provides a victim-centric approach to crime prevention, where empathetic, person centered assistance is rendered to individuals following incidents of victimization such as rape and other sexual assault, domestic violence, armed robbery, high jacking, child abuse, murder etc. We assist those who were direct victims or witnesses to such events.
The Forum has a standing arrangement with a local primary school to accommodate the shelter's children on a temporary basis to ensure continuity in their education, no matter what time of the year we receive them. Our perpetrator program involves one on one counseling and group therapy because we believe in building families rather than splitting them.
Opposing women and child abuse has been one of the mainstays of the activities of the Eldorado Park Women's Forum. The organization has been rendering imperative services in providing shelter, advice, empowerment and counseling to abused women with their children.
We also in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) render assistance to Victims of Trafficking in the form of individual or group counseling and Sheltering. Our Victim Empowerment Program ensures that victims of trauma are treated with respect and dignity.
Individual, group and family counseling, debriefing and crisis interventions for survivors of crime are services that we provide at our Centre's in order to attain sustainable reconciliation and healing.
The staff compliment of this project include Social Workers, Registered Counselors, Auxiliary Social Workers, Shelter Co-Ordinator, Shelter House Mothers as well a Driver. At present we also have psychologists rendering imperative interventions from the University of Johannesburg.
Social Auxiliary Liasson
(EPWF)
Supervisor
(JIKIZINTO)
Victim Supporter
(EPWF)
