Residential Care

The James House Residential Programme has a two-fold focus:

• To offer therapeutic and developmental services to help children overcome the trauma they have suffered, and to address the resultant developmental delays; in the process ensuring children develop resilience and healthy coping mechanisms.

• Enhancing the capacity of families to protect, nurture and care for their children, thereby facilitating reunification.

Around the Clock, Holistic Care

James House offers 24-hour care and protection for children at risk, whilst also offering various developmental and therapeutic programmes to help children deal with their challenges and realise their potential.

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Family Preservation

Wherever possible, we endeavour to reunite children with their parents – which is why we provide families with vital support services and life skills programmes and help them address problems in the home.

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Boys Quest

A Behavioural Management Programme, Boys Quest is a pilot project run on behalf of the Department of Social Development. Launched in August for boys from Hout Bay with severe behavioural challenges, it is a project designed to provide vision and direction in the lives of the boys, and to develop among them healthy coping mechanisms and appropriate social skills. All these boys are at risk of being removed from their families and placed in institutions, and the project aims to prevent this. There are three parts to BoysQuest– Group Therapy and Life Skills sessions for the children, Family Support and also Teacher Support. It is early days and full results will be reported in future newsletters. However several mothers have already seen really positive changes in their sons.