Family Program

Since 2005…

ACAY developed this program involving parents of School of Life and Second Chance beneficiaries to ensure their children’s successful reintegration.

FOR WHOM?

  • Youths’ parents
  • Alumni’s couples

OBJECTIVE

  • It aims to offer a journey of recovery for parents themselves, a safe place where they can ventilate their own trauma.
  • It ensures the sustainability of the ACAY impact in their children’s lives. Parents become partners of the ACAY MPI teams to work on the successful reintegration of youth in society.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM

The Family Program is a training program for parents, embarking them in the process of recovering from their own trauma and empowering them with new skills in handling their parental roles, and in supporting their child’s social reintegration.

“What I appreciated most was being able to express myself during group sharing—sharing what I like and don’t like helped lighten the emotional burden I was carrying.”

Parent of an SCP program beneficiary
“My son, before getting into ACAY, we all had no clue what would happen to him, but compared to now, He’s a different person. From a failing student, he became an accountable and academically proficient young man”
Father of an SCP program beneficiary