Empower Pacific team leader and counsellor in Labasa, Shobana Kiran Indal shares her experiences of working for the organisation.
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This story contains discussions on topics such as suicide and abuse which may be upsetting.
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One of the key principles of Psychological First Aid (PFA) is to Look, Listen & Link. Our trained PFA volunteers were able to apply this principle by identifying the individuals that needed support, assessing the situation by collaborating with the community police officers and gathering resources and support services available to assist the victims.
Read more and get an insight as to how our PFA training was able to help community members of Naqaravutu assist individuals who lost their home to a fire.
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“I have been able to share freely with you which I have never done before. And I am feeling much better now than before,” says the client.
Read more and find out how Counselling has been helpful to a 32-year-old single mother of three.
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In the office, she’s known as Aunty Va. A lady with a strikingly calming aurora and a compassionate smile. She adorns a beautiful traditional Buiniga making her stand out from the crowd. Aunty Va is a Senior Counsellor based at the Empower Pacific Head Office in Lautoka.
Read more to get an insight into her journey as our longest serving staff at Empower Pacific.
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Our community awareness sessions consisted of in-depth information on COVID-19 and its relation to the rise in Domestic Violence, we explored the definition of violence in GBV that is directed against a person on the basis of gender, reflected on the inequalities between men and women, identified and differentiated the various forms of abuse from physical to financial abuse.
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Empower Pacific completed a five-week Mental Health & Well-Being webinar series for the One Nation Our People – Youth Group based in Lautoka.
The sessions were based on issues affecting the youth in their daily lives such as managing strong emotions like anger, maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships, enhancing emotional resilience, Child Protection & Safeguarding and Gender-Based Violence.
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