Setshabelo Child and Youth Care Centre

The Centre emphasizes a holistic approach to child care and development and has six main objectives:

• To provide for the reception and temporary safe care of children to protect them from abuse and neglect.
• To provide for the reception and temporary safe care of children pending their placement.
• To provide for the holistic development of the children admitted to its care, namely their physic

al, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development.
• To make all attempts to transfer the children placed at the Setshabelo Child & Youth Care Centre into a less restrictive environment on the continuum of care as required by the policies and stipulations in the Children’s Act (Act 38 of 2005) .
• To capacitate and support children and their families to develop to their maximum potential through therapeutic interventions and skills training.
• To facilitate the re-unification of children in its care with their families.
• To ensure that the best interests of the children in the care of the Setshabelo Child & Youth Care Centre at all times maintained through the effective and sustainable management of programmes as well as through ongoing monitoring and evaluation systems. The organisation’s secondary objectives is to:

• To work in collaboration with other organisations that mainly deals with alcohol and drug dependence in communities.
• To support children and their families with skills that will improve their quality of life.