Core Program for Phoenix Support Educate: Increase mental health awareness and understanding through community outreach and education initiatives.

Advocate: Lobby for policies that improve mental health accessibility and equity, reducing barriers to care. Support: Establish a 24/7 crisis hotline, ensuring immediate access to mental health resources in times of need.

Empower: Organise workshops and develop community support networks to provide people with tools and resources to manage their mental health effectively. Resources, Education, and Support Services We offer a diverse range of resources, including comprehensive self-help materials, workshops, and educational content aimed at promoting mental health literacy and resilience.

Service Provision Currently offering services online through MS Teams, webinars, conferences, emails, in person, as per arrangement, in South Africa, all Provinces

• Reduction in the number of suicidal incidents, postnatal depression, anxiety, bereavement, denial in dealing with chronic medical conditions, etc., locally, aiming to widen the awareness nationally.
• Provide early intervention and prevent long-term sickness and or inability for people to get to work.
• Reduce financial dependencies on the state due to mental health and expenses linked to unmanaged mental health. Reduce the need for the number of people needing mental health inpatient services.
• Creating awareness in support of reducing mental health stigma so that people can seek help much earlier.
• Help with the recognition of neurodiversity earlier to ensure support is sought promptly.
• Strengthening family structures through Non-Violent Resistance techniques.

We offer intervention for families, which includes NVR for the parents and 1:1 Emotional Understanding for the Child/Young Person and Adults. 

There are several modalities depending on the client’s need such as Person Centred Therapy (PCT) - is a non directive Humanistic approach, working with the present, and reflections and allowing the client to lead the sessions, Psychodynamic - safely takes the client back to the past to unlock the subconscious links to the present thoughts, feelings and behaviours, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - directly and rapidly helps clients to address irrational beliefs and unhelpful or unhealthy thinking patterns. Other areas of work include Gestalt Therapy - understanding patterns within the relationships, the ‘empty chair technique’ and noticing the dialogue and roles one regresses to during dysfunctional relationships, Life Coaching,  Motivational Interviewing techniques can unblock cognitive dissonance, empowering and inspiring clients to live their true potential, Dialectical Behaviour

Therapy (DBT)  is to strike a balance between acceptance of who you are and your challenges and the benefits of change. Mindfulness is a modified form of cognitive therapy that incorporates mindfulness practices that include present moment awareness and breathing exercises.

Adherence to all applicable regulations: As we will have employees who require adherence to regulations, we will ensure that they are always compliant with their respective organisations. Systems will be put in place to ensure all are reminded at least 3 months before their licences are due to expire. Data privacy and security measures: All information will be kept confidential in accordance with data protection regulations, and individuals will be informed of how their information will be used and, where possible, confidentiality will be ensured.

There are some conditions that can be supported (not exhaustive)

• Feeling of stress or anxiety, Panic attack

• Relationship problems

• Grief, loss or bereavement

• Depression

• Mood swing

• Problem with confidence or self-esteem

• Anger management

• Accepting new diagnoses - HIV, Autism and Renal.

• Challenges or difficulties at work

• Perfectionism and self-sabotage

• Body image • Loneliness

• Living with a long-term health condition.

• Problems with family or school life.

Non-Violent Resistance Intervention

Our NVR Accredited Practitioner helps in building relationships. Are you struggling with a child's behaviour? Stand firm against physical or verbal violence due to a lack of understanding of Autism, mental health, etc.

Are you struggling with your parenting style? Or in the process of adopting a child? You are at the right place; we can support you.

What is NVR?

NVR stands for Non-Violent Resistance and was originally developed as an approach to parenting and caring for those young people who are violent, risk-taking, aggressive or self-destructive.

The technique is now being used in a variety of settings, including work in communities and schools and also with adults.

Do you need support with Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) - this enables you to share the problem and makes it more likely for you and your child to succeed in reducing violence.

Many families experiencing child violence find that they have become increasingly isolated and keep quiet about what is happening.

Keeping silent can help to keep the violence going, but involving supporters is a respectful and sensitive way of breaking the silence.

• Taking a firm stand against violence, risk-taking and anti-social behaviours.
• Holding back from physical or verbal violence.
• Stepping out of the escalators.
• Increase your positive presence in your child’s life.
• Delaying your response's strike when the Iron is cold.
• It takes a village to raise a child.

Our vision is a nation where HIV is no longer a threat to health or happiness, dignity and equality, and to reduce or end new HIV transmissions.

• Empower knowledge and equip people to manage their health.
• Help communities and families to understand HIV and improve support for those affected by HIV.
• Knowledge enables advocates, campaigners and communities to act on health.
• Help our audiences effect change in their own lives, their work or their communities.
• Reducing HIV stigma and removing barriers to testing and accessing treatment.
• Social inequalities must be addressed to deliver health equality and equity.

We strive to serve individuals, communities, and providers across the nation, recognising that needs and cultural differences exist.

We are committed to ensuring the information we produce on all aspects of HIV is: Accurate, Accessible, Evidence-based, Relevant and up to date, rooted in the experiences of those most affected by HIV.

We work to change lives by sharing information about HIV:

• Recently diagnosed with HIV: These pages are for you if you’ve just been diagnosed with HIV. They might also be helpful if you’ve known for a while but did not want to find out more about HIV until now. Finding out that you have HIV can be upsetting. These pages may help by assuring you that life does go on. They give clear information about living with HIV. This includes information about how you might feel, getting support, your health and treatment, sex and relationships, having a baby, and telling other people.
• Sexual Health: This section covers sexual health issues that go beyond HIV prevention, including the prevention and treatment of other sexually transmitted infections, contraception, sexual problems and relationship issues.
• Test and health monitoring: Information about both the tests that are used to diagnose HIV and those used to monitor the health of people living with HIV, including viral load and CD4 counts.
• HIV and Hepatitis: Hepatitis A, B and C are viral infections that can damage the liver and cause serious illnesses. Co-infection with HIV and hepatitis B or C is quite common. Safe and effective treatments are available.
• HIV treatment: Treatment is recommended for all people living with HIV. It involves taking a combination of antiretroviral drugs. This stops the virus from replicating and allows the immune system to strengthen and fight infections.
• HIV transmission and Prevention: Information about the different ways in which HIV can be passed on, as well as methods of HIV prevention, including undetectable viral load, condoms and PEP. Pre-exposure prophylaxis involves people who do not have HIV taking antiretroviral drugs when they are at risk of exposure to HIV to prevent infection. The drugs are usually taken as pills (oral PrEP).
• Young people, pregnancy and living with HIV: Information about the treatment, care and support of pregnant women living with HIV, children and young people living with HIV, and families affected by HIV.
• Health problems and ageing well: Co-morbidities, health conditions, diseases, opportunistic infections and other clinical problems that sometimes occur in people living with HIV.
• Healthy living: To take care of your health, you need to consider a range of health issues, not just HIV. An active and healthy lifestyle will reduce your risk of having other health conditions on top of HIV.
• Social and legal issues: Social, economic, legal and political issues that may affect the lives of people living with HIV, including stigma, discrimination, criminalisation, travel and insurance.
  
• User feedback is welcome, and any suggestions will be incorporated into the ongoing development of our resources.

  People with HIV can contribute their expertise and share their experiences by being part of our peer review panels. Members of this panel will provide us with comments on our patient information booklets and other resources for people with HIV.

  Your feedback and input really do make a difference. If you would like to comment on any of the Phoenix Support Centre resources, please contact us.

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  Together, we can continue to meet the diverse and evolving needs of people affected by HIV.