CharitySA.co.za - Caring Light - Western Cape, Cape Town, Bellville

FOCUS AREA:
VISION: To be an innovative key role player contributing to the advancement of emotional, spiritual, physical, intellectual and psychosocial care and support in the development of caregivers.

MISSION: Caring Light is committed to provide quality, efficient, effective and appropriate care, education, training, and services related to the subject of thanatology (study of subject related matters pertaining to dying, death and grief) to caregivers within the Western Cape. This includes:
- Home Based Carers.
- ARV Patient Treatment Advocates.
- TB Treatment Supporters.
- Lay Counsellors.
- Hospice staff and volunteers.

OBJECTIVES:
- To provide comprehensive holistic care and support services to caregivers.
- To ensure continual educational programs to care givers throughout the year.
- To maintain an efficient, effective and economical service delivery.
- To promote and support personal transformation in caregivers.

AIMS:
- To provide emotional and spiritual care that super cedes and transcends all religions and focuses on spirituality, the universal language of all religions. We are therefore able to include all faiths, cultures and ethnicity.
- To equip the carer with not only the required practical know-how-to skills, but also to equip them with emotional and spiritual life skills.
- To provide appropriate education and information on the subject of dying, death and bereavement. In such creating an awareness of the various processes of dying and grief and thereby pro-actively addressing the unnatural fear and ignorance within a spiritual context.
- To assist the caregivers to address the specific issues related to HIV/AIDS, TB and the abused through the means of appropriate education and counselling.
- To assist the caregiver to prepare those who are terminally ill to confront and accept their own mortality and to help identify and then to complete any unfinished business with life.
- To assist the caregiver to become skilled emotionally, spiritually, intellectually and practically in order for them to deal with their own clients.

These endeavours seek to:
Support those whom have chosen to make a difference in the lives of others, through the means of a specific and intentional program that empowers delegates to face their own mortality and grief so that they are best able to assist others with their dying and grieving processes.

CORE VALUES:
- Legacy value - provision of high quality care.
- Foundation values - honesty, trust, commitment, transparency and respect.
- Service values - effectiveness, efficiency, economical.
- Benefit values - empowerment, skills development, capacity building, role model.
- Integrity: we act with truth and honour to uphold good governance.
- Excellence: we give our best for our team, the sector, and ourselves.
- Openness: we embrace dialogue, the freedom to express creativity and the choice to make it happen.

CODE OF CONDUCT:
Caring Light adopts the manner that its members will at all times uphold the code of conduct of non discrimination toward another's choice of religion, belief system, creed, race, ethnicity, language, culture, sexuality, sexual preference and / or addictions.

SCOPE OF PRACTICE:
Caring Light shall adhere to the following scope of practice delivered by means of the identified projects and ensure achievement of its set mission, objectives and aims.

PROJECTS:

PROJECT 1: Three-day seminar on the holistic processes encountered by the patient, family and the carer when facing a terminal disease, death and grief.
PROJECT 2: "You, the caring helper" three-day training program designed to equip the trainee with the required skills and strategies
PROJECT 3: Care of the Carer Weekend Retreat Program
PROJECT 4: Emotional, spiritual and psychological support groups for hospice and step-down facility staff. Support groups are held twice a month.

WE NEED:
- Funding
- Volunteers with expertise on writing funding proposals
- Volunteers with expertise on HWSETA / SAQUA accreditation

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Please visit our website for details.