Prevention and Early intervention services to children, families and communities
Prevention and Awareness
The term "prevention" is typically used to represent activities that stop an action or behavior. It can also be used to represent activities that promote a positive action or behavior.
Child abuse interventions must both reduce risk factors and promote protective factors to ensure the well-being of children and families. Protective factors are conditions in families and communities that, when present, increase the health and well-being of children and families.
They are attributes that serve as buffers, helping parents who might otherwise be at risk of abusing their children to find resources, supports, or coping strategies that allow them to parent effectively, even under stress.
Early intervention
Early intervention services are defined as services that: ‘target children, youth, families, women, older persons and communities identified (through a developmental risk assessment) as being vulnerable or at risk and ensure, through strengths-based developmental and therapeutic programmes, that they do not have to experience statutory intervention of any kind.
In our case we focus on children, youth and families as we receive a subsidy for child protection only.
Early intervention services of the ACVV have the following primary goals:
- To prevent the removal of children from their families.
- To prevent the recurrence of problems and reduce the negative consequences of risk factors.
- To divert children away from either the child and youth care system or the criminal justice system.
Provision of Statutory Intervention
In the case of prevention and early intervention programs fail for:
- Children’s court proceedings
- Safety & Risk Assessments
- Removal of children to places of safety
- Placement of children in temporary safe care, foster care, child & youth care centre programs
- Adoption
- Reconstruction and after care
- Provision of Family preservation services
- Enhancement quality of children’s lives at all levels
- Fulfilment of the children’s quality of life and a healthy lifestyle
- Realisation of the rights of children
- Enhancement of life skills
- Meeting children’s physical, social, emotional/mental, physiological and spiritual needs
- Creation of stability in the lives of children within adoptive and foster care families
- Placement of children on adoption
Reintegration interventions
- Provision of Family preservation
- Re-unification of children with their families
- Provision of Independent living programme for children disengaging from alternative care placements
- Enhancement quality of children’s lives at all levels
- Fulfilment of the children’s quality of life and a healthy lifestyle
- Realisation of the rights of children
- Enhancement life skills
- Meeting children’s physical, social, emotional/mental, physiological and spiritual needs
- Creation of stability in the lives of children within adoptive and foster care families
- Provision of Independent living programme for children disengaged from alternative care placements
