Girlfriends & Boyfriends workshop series

for pre-teens and teens

PASCAP’s answer to HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, the manual takes an interesting look at teen sexuality and gender attitudes. Workshops are conducted with youth from 12 years old. The workshop series was developed as many teens appeared to shy away from preachy methodologies of HIV/AIDs programmes. After school facilitators observed that pre-teens and teens were obsessed with love relationships and wanted to talk about them. For many children and teens, their girlfriend or boyfriends are sadly their first experience of being loved, accepted and valued. These relationships shape young lives, their self-esteem and inform the decisions that they make. The Girlfriends and Boyfriends series helps teens make healthier choices, to recognise risks and to aspire to being better and more responsible partners.

The series includes an interactive manual and facilitator guide.

Club Care workshop series

Children’s rights and protection is dealt with sensitively and compassionately in this series. In our experience, we have found that there is a larger number of children that have been phsiycally, emotionally and/or sexually abused than the statistics tell us. Learning areas include recognising risks, understanding how sexual abuse usually takes place, talking about what a peodophile is, knowing where to go for help and how to support friends who have been abuse. Knowing that the victims often become the perpetrators, the series reinforces caring for one another, hence the name Club Care.

This series includes an interactive manual and facilitator guide. 

Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programme - YSAP

Younger children and becoming involved in substance abuse and our YSAP programme is in demand in both the primary and high schools. Developed for use in the after school environment, to present substance abuse awareness in a structured and creative manner, the YSAP programme ballooned into a full outreach activity reaching over 80 schools and over 15,000 children to date. An important aspect of the programme is engaging with the underlying vulnerabilities to substance abuse and talking about the critical influence of peer pressure, social status, fitting in and being cool. The programme format is exciting and may include movies, excursions, camps, community campaigns, discussion groups and holiday programmes.

The YSAP programmes consists of a manual and facilitator guide as well as complementary resources. 

Parent Support

Parents are most often the key to the socialisation and development of children. Merely providing developmental services to children and youth would be skewed if a supportive programme for parents is not available.

PASCAP launched a pilot programme for parents in 2001. The pilot was initiated in Parkwood, the site of the first PASCAP after school project in 1992. Since then the parent programme has grown to include Parent Appreciation Days, parent skills workshops, family days, workshops for adolecent parents and facilitator training. An emphasis is placed on the important role of parents as role models, structure and discipline in the home, as well as acknowledging the difficulties that parents are often required to cope with on their own, such as being sexually abused as a child, being abondoned by their partner, substance abuse and being unemployed.