OUR MISSION
To protect, heal, empower, and support vulnerable children and youth through music, life skills, and education.
OUR VISION
To be a leading organization in transforming the lives
of Uganda’s new generations.
Psycho-Social Support & Life Skills
Introduction to Psycho-Social Support
M-LISADA appreciates the complex backgrounds of our children. This program teaches children how to adjust to a new environment and recover from traumatic experiences.
Initially, M-LISADA’s outreach program worked with the street children of Kampala. But it was difficult to make meaningful progress because the police frequently removed these children to Kampiringisa where they were placed with juveniles who had committed crimes. M-LISADA saw this as an opportunity to work with two different groups of underserved youth who needed trauma healing and life skills. In 2014 M-LISADA went to Kampiringisa Juvenile Detention and Rehabilitation Center for the first time and M-LISADA’s Psycho-Social Support program was established.
Psycho-social support is offered to the children who live at M-LISADA’s Kampala and Kalangala homes, those who come to M-LISADA for our Bridge Education Program, the children who go to M-LISADA Passion Primary School, the children in our community empowerment program, and to youth who have been in conflict with the law at Kampiringisa Juvenile Detention & Rehabilitation Center.
Trauma Healing
The aim of trauma healing is to help vulnerable children understand their underlying pain, so they can heal their wounds and make positive life changes as they grow into young adults. We achieve this through practical lessons that are centered on different topics and themes like anger, forgiveness, and love. Various group sharing and role-playing exercises are used as tools for children and youth to talk about their experiences, and to express their feelings about what has happened in their lives. M-LISADA covers issues of self-confidence, self–esteem, self-awareness, critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, emotions, anger management, problem solving, forgiveness and stress.
Trauma healing sessions may include Art Therapy, covering topics like Top Secret Stuff, All About Me, Safety and Comfort, I am Mad, and Two kinds of Touches
Life Skills
Life Skills works hand in hand with the topics covered in psycho-social trauma healing. Life Skills teaches vulnerable children capabilities that help them in their day-to-day life. We teach them how to know oneself, live with others, make effective decisions, and embrace new opportunities and tasks. Examples of life skills taught by M-LISADA are communication, empathy, teamwork, problem solving, and conflict resolution.
OUR MISSION
To protect, heal, empower, and support vulnerable children and youth through music, life skills, and education.
OUR VISION
To be a leading organization in transforming the lives
of Uganda’s new generations.
Psycho-Social Support & Life Skills
Introduction to Psycho-Social Support
M-LISADA appreciates the complex backgrounds of our children. This program teaches children how to adjust to a new environment and recover from traumatic experiences.
Initially, M-LISADA’s outreach program worked with the street children of Kampala. But it was difficult to make meaningful progress because the police frequently removed these children to Kampiringisa where they were placed with juveniles who had committed crimes. M-LISADA saw this as an opportunity to work with two different groups of underserved youth who needed trauma healing and life skills. In 2014 M-LISADA went to Kampiringisa Juvenile Detention and Rehabilitation Center for the first time and M-LISADA’s Psycho-Social Support program was established.
Psycho-social support is offered to the children who live at M-LISADA’s Kampala and Kalangala homes, those who come to M-LISADA for our Bridge Education Program, the children who go to M-LISADA Passion Primary School, the children in our community empowerment program, and to youth who have been in conflict with the law at Kampiringisa Juvenile Detention & Rehabilitation Center.
Trauma Healing
The aim of trauma healing is to help vulnerable children understand their underlying pain, so they can heal their wounds and make positive life changes as they grow into young adults. We achieve this through practical lessons that are centered on different topics and themes like anger, forgiveness, and love. Various group sharing and role-playing exercises are used as tools for children and youth to talk about their experiences, and to express their feelings about what has happened in their lives. M-LISADA covers issues of self-confidence, self–esteem, self-awareness, critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, emotions, anger management, problem solving, forgiveness and stress.
Trauma healing sessions may include Art Therapy, covering topics like Top Secret Stuff, All About Me, Safety and Comfort, I am Mad, and Two kinds of Touches
Life Skills
Life Skills works hand in hand with the topics covered in psycho-social trauma healing. Life Skills teaches vulnerable children capabilities that help them in their day-to-day life. We teach them how to know oneself, live with others, make effective decisions, and embrace new opportunities and tasks. Examples of life skills taught by M-LISADA are communication, empathy, teamwork, problem solving, and conflict resolution.