KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaican authorities say they’re offering child-friendly areas to assist youngsters who’re victims of crime really feel secure.
The director of the Justice Ministry’s Sufferer Companies Department (VSB), Dionne Daybreak Binns, stated these areas are designed to assist youngsters really feel calm and comfy whereas interacting with their counsellor, social employee, or whomever it might be.
Binns informed the Jamaica Data Service (JIS) Information that two of the areas, positioned in Portland and Manchester, had been developed with donor funding help, including that “we’re wanting, going ahead, to have the ability to develop extra areas in our places of work”.
Binns stated that child-friendly areas additionally present a possibility for kids to not solely open up and share what they should share, but additionally to regulate to what’s taking place and profit from the remedy they’re receiving.
“We utilise play remedy lots with our youngsters, as a result of some individuals don’t know that the language of a kid is play. We utilise play remedy methods to assist them open up, inform their story, perceive what is going on, and likewise profit from the remedy they obtain from their counsellors.
“We strive to make sure that, not solely are we offering the counselling and the emotional help, however our bodily areas are additionally developed and established in such a method that’s conducive, particularly for our youngsters,” Binns stated.
She stated that the child-friendly areas are very vibrant, cheerful and brilliant, whereas noting that murals are additionally positioned on the partitions, which the kids take pleasure in .
“[They have] furnishings that’s conducive to youngsters. So whereas a regular counselling room might have a sofa and chairs in an everyday setup, these have child-sized chairs, tables, beanbags, and issues that the kids take pleasure in sitting on [among other things].
“There are additionally… therapeutic instruments (toys) that we use within the remedy [sessions] to have the ability to help the kids. So, it might look, from a common perspective, like a toy, nevertheless it has particular meanings and is utilised in remedy,” she added.
