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Sanctuary, ASPIRE - Asylum Seekers Pursuing Integration, Refuge and Empowerment
Description
The project has been establishing a specialist counselling team to work with 5 new community organisations to develop basic counselling services for asylum seekers. This involves training volunteers in peer (emotional and financial) counselling and committee members in management of counselling services. A counselling training programme is being developed that will enable volunteers to gain accreditation in future.
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Beneficiaries
Asylum seekers
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Counselling training programme and counselling serviceThis is a unique service to create a skills base to deliver counselling (with a non-western theoretical base) for asylum seekers which has been used by organisations in dealing with people in distress.
