During 2020, despite significant challenges including restricted access and time consuming hygiene protocols, Community Keepers engaged with more learners, and their caregivers, more frequently and across a broader range of interventions.
Click here to read the 2020 SUMMARY REPORT
Total engagement per year over the last 3 years:
2018: 17 017 2019: 34 676 2020: 92 890
LIFE KEEPERS resilience building PROGRAM:
We engaged with 23 406 LEARNERS in 1 643 GROUP WORKSHOPS
at 28 partner schools (11 high schools and 17 primary schools)
19 493 LEARNERS completed activity books during lockdown
We reached 19 736 FAMILIES with encouraging messages VIA SCHOOL WHATSAPP GROUPS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
TEACHER KEEPERS
We engaged with 1 364 EDUCATORS during 499 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS
PARENT KEEPERS
We engaged with 9 732 PARENTS through 176 POSITIVE PARENTING SESSIONS
SUPPORT KEEPERS PROGRAM
We counselled 2 857 LEARNERS & EDUCATORS during 1 907 THERAPY SESSIONS
We reached 4 005 LEARNERS & EDUCATORS through 9 013 PHONE CALLS
lasting a total of 71 976 MINUTES (1 200 hours)
We had 12 297 PERSONAL ENGAGEMENTS THROUGH
the Western Cape Education Department ANNEXURE G check-in process
97% OF LEARNERS ACCESSING OUR SERVICES ARE PER DEFINITION “BLACK”
44% OF THE 2 857 LEARNERS ENROLLED FOR THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING ARE MALE AND 56% FEMALE
IN 2020 WE SUPPORTED LEARNERS FROM 13 OF OUR PARTNER SCHOOLS, REPORTING STATUTORY CASES
OF THE 2 857 LEARNERS ENROLLED FOR THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING,
41% REFERRED THEMSELVES
22% WERE REFERRED BY EDUCATORS, 16% BY PARENTS AND
21% WERE REFERRED BY OUR CK STAFF OR AN OUTSIDE ORGANISATION.
OF THE 2 857 LEARNERS ENROLLED FOR THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING, THE BROARD THEMES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
915 EMOTIONAL / PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCERNS
596 FAMILY / COMMUNITY CONCERNS
337 BEHAVIOURAL CONCERNS
278 GENERAL GUIDANCE
169 SCHOLASTIC
127 PEER GROUP
98 SEXUALITY
75 CHRONIC / SERIOUS ILLNESS
13 SPEECH
257 NOT YET CONCLUDED, SO NOT YET CATEGORISED.
To find out more of for the full report on our activities, please write to us on info@communitykeepers.org