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