The organisation’s belief that every child has a right to family or parental care – and in the absence of that care, they’ve established two Child and Youth Care Centres, the Bridge CYCC in Khayelitsha and LaunchPad Transitional CYCC in Observatory. The Bridge provides appropriate, therapeutic and developmental residential care so street children can successfully transition away from street life and back to their families. It helps 160 street children annually through the Homestead residential projects, consistently running at over 90% capacity with an absconding rate of less than 10%.
The LaunchPad Youth Transition Programme involves transitional residential care for youth aged 15 to 21 who are preparing to leave care, return home or move on to independent living. It helps them prepare for the practical considerations of accommodation, provides day-to-day-to-day living skills and helps them secure necessary documentation (ID, bank account, etc.). Since opening in February 2016 this project has shown a 100% success rate of stabilising youth out of care and into independent living and employment. The number of shelter children now motivated to stabilise and enter this project has risen by over 120%