Making a difference in the workplace
1. EAPs (Employee Assistance Programmes)
Personal and mental health difficulties among employees often result in various work-related problems. However, mental health problems and stress, that impact negatively on the workplace, can be reduced through employee assistance programmes.
A skilled therapist can help employees to explore the dynamics involved, in order to contain and resolve their problems. Through the EAP, employers can also identify employees with job-related or personal problems at an early stage of their lowering performance.
Contact the Staff Counselling Network (a division of Cape Mental Health Society) if you want to
We provide a professional counselling service that includes the identification of troubled employees, assessment, referral, treatment and aftercare.
We also provide training and skills development, including - Trauma Debriefing - Stress Management - HIV/AIDS support - Retrenchment Recovery - Disability and Retirement Support - Life Skills - Basic Communication Skills for Managers - Conflict Resolution - Training and Support for People with Disabilities, and - Training of Supervisors in identifying troubled employees.
Funds derived from our “corporate” work are used to subsidise our community programmes where our service-users are unable to contribute towards the cost of the services provided.
Contact details:
Staff Counselling Network: Gadija Koopman
Cape Mental Health Society
22 Ivy Street, Observatory Private Bag X7, Observatory, 7935
Tel: 021 4479040 Mobile: 082 6584537 Fax: 021 4488475 E-mail:
2. Employment of people with psychiatric disabilities
Fountain House aims to facilitate and enhance the gradual reintegration into society and the workplace of the person with a psychiatric disability. This is achieved through the following key objectives:
Read more about Fountain House’s Vocational Training and Transitional Employment Programmes on Our Mental Health Services page or go to visit their website at www.fountainhouse.co.za)
Contact details:
René Minnies, Fountain House (SA) Coordinator
Tel. 021 447 7409
Fax: 021 447 0319
Email:
3. Learning for Life – Capacity building
(See also Affordable Training)
We respond to YOUR NEEDS, by designing short workshops/seminars on the following topics:
- Behaviour management - Caring for the carers - Stress management - Assessment & planning for programme development - Conflict resolution - Basic financial management - Basic fundraising skills.
If you have identified a special need in your organisation/company, let us know, as we have many resources available and we will compile a course especially for you.
Contact details:
Learning for Life: Ekin Kench (Co-ordinator) or Ian Veary
Tel. 021 447 6804 Fax 021 447 6804 E-mail:
4. Employment of people with intellectual disability
Does your company or organisation have a vacancy for a trained, reliable person? If you are interested in employing any of these persons, or would like to arrange an interview with anybody, please contact Training Workshops Unlimited (contact details below).
Enclave Employment
Training Workshops Unlimited selects its top trainees to take part in fixed-term employment contracts, as a bridging programme between sub-contract work and the open labour market. Through this programme, trainees learn about appropriate work standards in companies and gain valuable open labour market experience. We can send a team to your premises, to conduct any work requiring the skills used in our sub-contracting department. TWU will also develop new skills to suit your company’s requirements.
Contact details:
TWU Contracts Manager / Training and Development Manager
Athlone Training Workshop
Tel: (021) 638 3143
Fax: (021) 637 9642
or
Open Labour Market Placement and Job Coaching
Our Siyanceda programme is aimed at involving intellectually disabled youth in voluntary community work, in order to prepare them for the open labour market. This programme also provides participants with training that enable them to earn credits against the National Qualifications Framework and ultimately creating exit opportunities for programme graduates in the from of sustained employment.
Trainees are selected from the four TWU training centres’ work skills sections, based in Athlone, Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain and Retreat. Each trainee undergoes comprehensive training in Workskills (e.g. Hygiene & Cleaning, Gardening Services, Caregiving) and related life skills, open labour market preparedness training and Sexuality/HIV Aids Education.
For more information contact:
The Siyanceda project manager
Tel: (021) 638 3134
Email
Or visit www. capegateway.gov.za/eng/directories/projects/15150/123667
Outsource your Assembly Line Production work to our sub-contract department.
TWU offers the following high-quality services, conducted by work skills trainees at our various Centres:
Packaging, Shrink wrapping, Heat-sealing, Sorting, Assembling, Concrete/cement work, Race number printing, Woodwork, Wire work, Labelling, Bottling, Filing, Laundry
TWU also offers:
• Storage facilities • Deliveries • Free quotations • Service excellence guaranteed
For more information contact:
TWU Contracts Manager, Athlone Training Workshop
Tel: (021) 638 3143 Fax: (021) 637 9642
E-mail:
Would your organisation like to have some free work done? If your community–based organisation or NGO is situated in Athlone, Retreat, Khayelitsha or Mitchell’s Plain, you can have a team of our trainees conduct cleaning work for you for free.
For more information contact:
Siyanceda Job Coach, Athlone Training Workshop
Tel: (021) 638 3143 Fax: (021) 637 9642
Email:
We have control fencing we rent out to organisers of big events. It is put up to control and channel the participants and spectators as needed.
For more information contact:
TWU General Manager, Athlone Training Workshop
Tel: (021) 638 3143 Fax: (021) 637 9642
Email:
