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ESTABLISHING VOLUNTEER COUNSELORS AND COMMUNITIES THAT ACTIVELY SUPPORT RESTORATION, RE-INTEGRATION AND RESOCIALIZATION ACTIVITIES
ZPM is focusing on capacity building through establishing committed crime-care communities that actively support re-integration and resocialisation activities through training of prison officers, community leaders and in-prison peer counselors. In 2010 ZPM graduated 67 community leaders and volunteer workers in at certificate level in counseling skills and competencies for the prison context.
The course had a duration of 50 hours and covered the following subjects among others;
1. Group work in the prison context,
2. Counselling skills designed for inmates and ex-inmates-
3. Effective inner healing and deliverance
4. Conducting victim/offender peace circles
5. Shaping feelings and behavior through thought habits
6. Counselling for inmates in prison and pre-release stages.
ZPM is focusing on capacity building through establishing committed crime-care communities that actively support re-integration and resocialisation activities through training of prison officers, community leaders and in-prison peer counselors. In 2010 ZPM graduated 67 community leaders and volunteer workers in at certificate level in counseling skills and competencies for the prison context.
The course had a duration of 50 hours and covered the following subjects among others;
1. Group work in the prison context,
2. Counselling skills designed for inmates and ex-inmates-
3. Effective inner healing and deliverance
4. Conducting victim/offender peace circles
5. Shaping feelings and behavior through thought habits
6. Counselling for inmates in prison and pre-release stages.
CARE, COUNSELLING AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE is another program being run by ZPM. Since 2009, more than fifty five prison visits were made to Chikurubi Farm, Female, Harare Central and Marondera prisons to give: personal development skills to prisoners, counseling sessions to individual prisoners, humanitarian assistance to prisoners, networking pre-release prisoners with care and supporting communities and families and provision of sport and recreation equipment programs for prisoners. Two soccer kits worth US$729-00 were donated to Harare Central Prison in April 2011. In 2010 224 prisoners from Chikurubi female, farm and maximum prisons graduated in character development lessons. In 2011 the same lessons were distributed to Guruve (50) and Harare (25) prisons
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