Course leader details:
Prof ND Maseko
Office: Office 6-118, A J H van der Walt Building, UNISA
Telephone: 012 429 4115
Email: maseknd@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Purpose statement:
The aim of the programme is to provide knowledge and skills to parents, guardians, grandparents, teachers, social workers, caregivers and volunteers in communities and warders in correctional centres who will be enabled to support children at risk in diverse contexts.
Modules:
SCSCRA1 - The Support of Children at Risk
Content:
THEORETICAL COMPONENT
Who are children at risk (orphans, those displaying deviant behaviour, offenders, refugees, drug addicts, children from broken homes, school drop outs)
Causative Factors
Intervention Strategies through Holistic Approach and Wellness Dimensions
Support
Maintaining Sustainability
PRACTICAL COMPONENT- PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT
Identifying children at risk
Ethical Considerations
Practical Intervention
Relationship building
Walking the path-addressing wellness dimensions
Rehabilitation/Remediation
Sustainability
