COPESSA

Welcome to COPESSA

COPESSA (Community-based Prevention and Empowerment Strategies in South Africa) is a multiple award-winning community based organisation whose reason for being is the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

We have for the past nine years pioneered use of a holistic model, the Ecological Model, for both the understanding of the predisposing factors to this social sourge and to tailor-making programmes that address it.

Consequently, we offer the following sevices:

• Community Development Projects, (primary prevention)
• Clinical services – counselling, medical assessments, group therapy, play therapy, for the victims and their families (tertiary prevention)
• Research and training, (quartenary prevention

Please click here for the COPESSA’s approach and response to GBV - The Ecological Model