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 Play Therapy Africa is kindly supported by the Pulitzer Foundation
" The most progressive African-Based Association
governing Therapeutic Play, Play Therapy, Justice for Children, and Gender Based Violence's Prevention". Helping children and youth.
Supporting practitioners, institutions, and governments. |
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Play Therapy Africa (PTA) is an Association entirely dedicated to the professional support of children, youth and women in need of protection. Play Therapy Africa has a special focus on building the capacities of professionals, institutions and governments engaged in supporting victims of violence and abuse, at risks groups, and juvenile offenders.
The Association promotes the development of prevention and protection systems through the use of modern approaches and trainings such as Play and Creative Arts Therapies, Restorative Justice, and Justice for Children and Youth.
Play Therapy Africa works in development as well as in emergency contexts.
Play Therapy Africa specifically seeks to increase the capacities of health professionals, social workers, education providers, law enforcement agents, non governmental organizations and communities to:
Scale out integrated professional support to victims of violence and abuses, at risks populations, and juvenile offenders;
Strengthen protection and prevention from violence and abuses;
Increase reporting, investigation and conviction rates of perpetrators of violence and abuses;
Support the establishment of multi-sectoral case management systems of victims, perpetrators and juvenile offenders. Play Therapy Africa is the African branch of Play Therapy International (PTI) – the International Society for Play and Creative Arts Therapies – a world wide Association with operations in more than 46 countries (see www.playtherapy.org).
While in developed countries PTI mainly focuses on increasing the capacities of education providers, social workers and therapists in promoting the emotional development of children through play and creative arts therapies, the prevalence of violence against children, girls and women and the increasing number of youth in conflict with the law in developing countries has dictated an expansion of the Association’s original mandate in Africa.
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