A teacher feels overwhelmed and exhausted after failing to contain an especially disruptive student. She knows he’s exposed to ongoing violence at home and is not sure what to do.
Counselling services: rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, general counselling services which support survivors, pastoral counselling. Related support services: child abuse services, child and family welfare services. Marriage and divorce services: general information, couple counselling. HIV/AIDS counselling. Services for the aged. Community development.
Tel
021 761 2671
Fax
021 761 2671
Email
Address
4 Salisbury Road, Wynberg, 7824
Contact
Mrs Brand
Beaufort West Provincial Hospital
Service area
Beaufort West
Description of services
Crisis counselling available at the trauma unit. Comfort room available in cases of rape, domestic violence and assault. Hospital counsellors do awareness raising at schools.
Tel
023 414 8200
Fax
023 414 2466
Address
Voortrekker Street, Beaufort West
Contact
Matron Jonker
Chumani Women's Support Group
Service area
Khayelitsha
Description of services
Finding safe places for women to stay. Focus on empowerment. 24hr Telephone service. HIV/AIDS referrals. Awareness raising around rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS.
Tel
021 361 3461
Address
31 Natchez Crescent, Graceland, Khayelitsha, 7535
Contact
Thoko Speelman
Community Health Centre & Sa
Tel
lite Clinics
Service area
Plettenberg Bay, Kwa Nokuthula, New Horizons, Kurland Village, Kranshoek, Witte Drift
Description of services
Follow-up after rape Counselling at Knysna hospital. Ante-natal counselling and examination. Pregnancy and birth services, including screening of risk factors and referral if needed, general pregnancy education, postnatal services, screening for childhood development, and new-born and other congenital/genetic disorders, information provision around breast-feeding, and education around child feeding and care.
Tel
044 501 3200
Fax
044 533 3846
Email
Address
Marine Way (Next to Fire Station), Plettenberg Bay
Contact
Sister Noël Rist
Creating Effective Families (CEF)
Service area
Mossel Bay
Description of services
Counselling and information around violence against women. Local shelter for battered women, providing accommodation and basic needs, FAMSA counselling, and child therapy once a week. Assistance with protection orders. Trauma debriefing. Stay: maximum 3 months. Counselling for prevention of drug & alcohol abuse. Opening hours: 8am - 1 pm.
Tel
044 691 1411
Fax
044 691 1411 or 044 693 1092
Email
Address
CEF Haven Shelter (Former Sorgen Haven Shelter)
Contact
Roeleen Coetzee (Social Worker) / Karin Gildenhuys
Counselling for domestic violence survivors and their families. Counselling at factories for employees and employers. Educational awareness raising through role-play and talks. Training of volunteers and establishing of support groups. HIV AIDS education.
Tel
021 931 3725
Fax
021 931 3725
Email
Address
Multi-Purpose Centre, Halt Road, Elsies River
Contact
Lorraine van der Westhuizen
Diakonaledienste
Service area
Beaufort West
Description of services
Social work and counselling services. Church-based welfare organisations
Tel
023 414 3973
Fax
023 414 4976
Email
Address
20 Brand Street, Beaufort West
Contact
Audrey Anthony
Dirkie Uys Community Health Centre
Service area
Goodwood
Description of services
Medical and legal services for rape and child abuse survivors.
Tel
021 590 1644
Fax
021 590 1645
Address
Dirkie Uys CHC, c/o Church & Dingle Street, Goodwood
Contact
Pulane Ramentse
Family and Marriage Society of South Africa (FAMSA)
Service area
Observatory
Description of services
Individual, couple and family counselling for victims/ survivors, perpetrators and children around domestic violence. Treatment groups for perpetrators. Marriage relationship counselling. Divorce counselling and medication. Training around domestic violence. basic counselling skills, couple counselling, trauma debriefing and family counselling.
Tel
021 447 7951
Fax
021 447 0174
Email
Address
9 Bowden Road, Observatory
Contact
Noelene Blekkenhorst
FEMNET
Service area
Beaufort West
Description of services
Interventions in violent family situations. Referrals of women and children to Social Services for counselling. Emergency accommodation for 2 - 3 women or children overnight.
Tel
023 414 2765
Contact
Isabella Baartman
Ilitha Labantu
Service area
Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Phillipi, Langa,
Description of services
Counselling in cases of rape, domestic violence and child abuse. Family enrichment programmes. Training of counsellors. Police training. Public education. “BRIDGE” employment training project.
Tel
021 633 2383
Fax
021 638 2956
Email
Address
NY22-26A Gugulethu, 7750
Contact
Ntombi Mcoyi
Karoo Centre For Human Rights
Service area
Beaufort West
Description of services
Prisoner rights referral (men & women). Awareness programmes around domestic violence, including information on rights and how to apply for interdicts. Awareness raising programmes with farm workers (men and women) around their rights and on land issues.
Tel
023 414 2480
Fax
023 414 2470
Email
Address
104B New Street, Beaufort West, 6970
Contact
James Diamond
Kraaifontein Support Group
Service area
Kraaifontein
Description of services
24 hour service. Emergency shelter for racial and domestic violence.
Tel
021 988 4869
Email
Address
27 Verster Road, Kraaifontein, 7570
Contact
Loretta Thomas
Kuils River Support Group
Service area
Kuils River
Description of services
24 hour service. Emergency shelter for rape and domestic violence survivors. Counselling services. Referrals to legal and medical services.
Tel
021 903 4262
Fax
021 903 4262
Email
Address
27 Oven Road, Des Hamdon, Kuils River, 7580
Contact
Ilze Wake. eld
Love In Action
Service area
Mitchells Plain
Description of services
Counselling services to domestic and rape survivors.
Tel
021 391 1925
Contact
Dorothy Williams
Mitchells Plain Crisis Line
Service area
Mitchells Plain
Description of services
Counselling for rape survivors and abused women. Programmes around drugs for teens at risk, HIV/AIDS prevention. Paralegal services. Employment services.
Tel
021 392 2000
Fax
021 392 2887
Address
Room 13/1 OGS Building, c/o 1st & 4th Avenue, Town Centre, Mitchells Plain
Contact
Geraldine Young
Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre for Women
Service area
Wynberg, Khayelithsa, Paarl
Description of services
Supportive and educational services for abused women and female youth. Education about abuse, including workshops, support groups and counselling. Support at Domestic Violence sections at various Magistrates Courts through Mosaic Court Support Desks. Counselling skills training for grassroots women and service providers. Public education about abuse. Assertiveness training for women. Training of volunteers to help applicants for protection orders at Magistrates Courts. Public education about abuse and rape. Counselling and support groups for rape survivors.
Tel
021 761 7585
Fax
021 761 7584
Email
Address
66 c/o Mortlake & Otlery Road, Wynberg, 7824
Contact
Roelene Miller
N2 South Cape Rural Development Forum
Service area
George
Description of services
General services for women living along the N2. Building capacity of women in the rural areas. Referral programmes on behalf of the Department of Health. Community training on HIV and general health care.
Tel
044 874 3921 or 044 874 0721
Fax
044 874 3716
Address
GA Keyser Centre, 2nd Floor, Room 1, George 6530
Contact
Lorraine Deysel
New World Foundation
Service area
Lavender Hill
Description of services
Social worker advice and help with housing and social issues. Counselling focusing on domestic violence. Training Centre. Opening hours: Mon- Thurs: 8:30am - 5pm; Fri: 8:30am - 3:30pm.
New World Foundation Building, Grindale Ave, Lavender Hill, 7945
Contact
Vanessa Brown / Collette Egypt
NICRO Women's Support Centre
Service area
Cape Town, Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Atlantis, Beaufort West, Goerge, S
Tel
lenbosch, Worcester, Paarl,
Description of services
Counselling and legal assistance for women who are or have been physically, verbally, emotionally, sexually and/or economically abused. Open and closed support groups. Trauma debriefing. Training and Man Can Resource Directory education.
Tel
021 422 1690
Fax
021 424 6879
Email
Address
4 Buitensingel, Cape Town, 8001
Contact
Petula Chamberlain
Rape Crisis
Service area
Observatory, Khayelitsha, George, Somerset West, S
Tel
lenbosch
Description of services
Counselling for sexually assaulted women. Public education about rape and other forms of women abuse. Training in rape crisis intervention. Assistance to rape survivors and their families/partners in the form of emotional support and practical medical and legal advice.
Assessment and counselling. Referrals. Prevention programmes. Community education. Training. Aftercare. Support groups. Industrial consultation services.
Tel
021 364 5510
Fax
021 364 5510
Address
E505 Scott Street, CWD Building, Khayelitsha, 7784
Contact
Guyborn Ketse / Nteboheng Rapita
The Music Therapy Community Clinic
Service area
Wynberg
Description of services
Counselling services to children traumatised by violence or abuse. After school “music for life” programmes. Music therapy services to children and adults affected by HIV/AIDS. Music therapy services to youth at risk.
Tel
021 462 0726
Fax
021 797 1002
Email
Address
D5 Bower Road, Wynberg, 7800
Contact
Sunelle Fouche
Thuthuzela Rape Care Centre
Service area
Manenberg
Description of services
Safe, enclosed environment for rape survivors (0+ years), bathing facilities and clean clothes, tea/coffee/soup, statement-taking procedures at hospital, medication for injuries, HIV medication if required, dedicated police and prosecutors through court process.
Tel
021 690 1011 or 021 691 6194
Fax
021 691 6190
Contact
Mandisa Ngonongono
Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
Service area
Woodstock
Description of services
Trauma counselling to individuals and groups. Training courses to public and frontline workers. Workshops/courses on understanding violence and trauma. Developing strategies for working with trauma support for caregivers. HIV/AIDS counselling. Opening hours: Mon - Thurs: 8.30am - 4.30pm; Fri: 8.30 - 4.30pm.
Tel
021 465 7373
Fax
021 462 3143
Email
Address
Cowley House, 126 Chapel Street, Woodstock, 7925
Contact
Fatima Williams
Triangle Project
Service area
Mowbray
Description of services
Counselling and support to clients experiencing violence in lesbian and gay relationships. Test Clinic for HIV/AIDS. Group Sessions. Opening hours: Mon - Tues: 8-30am - 8.30pm; Wed - Fri: 8.30am - 4.30pm. Weekends closed.
Tel
021 448 3812
Fax
021 448 4089
Email
Address
Unit 26 Waverley Business Park, Wicket Road Mowbray, 7705
Contact
Heather Adonis
United Sanctuary Against Abuse
Service area
Atlantis
Description of services
Counselling services for rape, domestic violence and sexual abuse. Shelter for abused women and children. Secondary support services: human rights and legal structures, court support / children's court support. Related support services: violence against children and childcare, SAPS CPU, child abuse services. HIV/AIDS services: counselling, shelter, training and education. Services for the aged. Day care centre.
Tel
021 572 8662
Cell
083 243 9313
Cell
2 082 362 2108
Fax
021 572 8662
Email
Contact
Magrieta Ruiters
Wesfleur Day Hospital
Service area
Atlantis
Description of services
Training of volunteers for dealing with violence against women cases
Tel
021 572 3071
Fax
021 572 4420
Contact
Naomi Seide
Western Cape Anti- Crime Forum
Service area
Gatesville
Description of services
Counselling. Referrals and intervention. Training with police. Working with rape and domestic violence survivors. Anti-crime forum. Training and development - urban & rural areas. Lobbying and networking with other organisations.
Tel
021 699 0913
Fax
021 699 1048
Contact
Gaynor Wasser
Women Oppose Violence: Malibongwe Women's Shelter
Service area
Oudsthoorn
Description of services
Crisis safe-house facilities.
Tel
044 272 5739
Contact
Elaine September
Women Who Care
Service area
Atlantis
Description of services
24 hour services for domestic violence, child abuse and rape survivors, battered women, abused elderly persons, and battered men.
