Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Pauline Nandoo
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Project funding
£56,410
Funding round
Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers (SDCAS) aims and primary purpose of the organisation's are:
- To help relieve poverty and distress, assist in the promotion of health and the furtherance of leisure and education
- To provide a wide range of holistic services which support, promote and secure the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.
SDCAS aims to deliver Parenting Workshops funded by the Family and Parenting Institute over the next two years for asylum seekers and refugees to 'strengthen family relationships in families where parental behaviour's compromise family wellbeing'.
We will work in partnership with the Parenting Centre who will run 3 or more language based 7 week Parenting Courses at our day centre's and train asylum seekers and refugees within two years in Arabic; French and English for families from asylum seeking and refugees communities as well as train volunteers/service users and workers to deliver the course in the second year, taking the ' training the trainers' course, Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities, with the support of the Southwark Parenting Commissioner to enable them to deliver the parenting classes in Year 2 of the project. We aim to use the NAPP Parenting Programme Evaluation Tool.
The beneficiaries per course will be between 8-16 asylum seeking and refugee families with young children from various countries including Ivory Coast, Algeria, Iraq, Congo, Iran and Sudan and many live under very turbulent and chaotic circumstances with no recourse to public funds and living in temporary accommodation. A parenting project worker will work with the families. The trainers will be managed and supported by the Parenting Centre.