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CDF Belize Services
Training workshops for care providers sensitizing them to the needs of victims and establishing the basis for intervention and care; training workshops for teachers to raise awareness of reporting of exploitation and abuse laws and protocols; seminars to train community based counselors; seminars with youths to raise awareness on indicators of CSEC and advise them of where and how to get help, creating networks amongst community organization to identify resources for victims. The main service area is the Cayo District, where the capital is located and one of the main centers of CSEC in Belize.
Phase One:
- Raising awareness on the exploitation of children in Belize.
- Training stakeholders how to detect, investigate, advocate and legally protect children who are victims of exploitation and abuse.
- Connecting and forging networks with stakeholders, especially government agencies, whose work involves daily interaction with children especially children likely to be victims of abuse and neglect.
- To forge linkages with other community based organizations whose work overlaps with any aspect of CDF's work.
Phase Two:
- Raising awareness of the value of a Biblical approach to child development.
- Providing training to Sunday School Teachers, teachers in Christian schools and other organizations involved in the development of children, to equip them to adopt a Biblical purpose and nurturing approach to child development and children’s ministry.
- Providing training on a Biblical approach toward rehabilitation of children who are victims of exploitation and neglect.
- Developing a network of community activists and social transformers willing to provide hands on or direct training and other services to children and the families of children who are victims of exploitation and neglect.
Phase Three:
- Developing a Biblical training manual for providing spiritual nurturing and counseling to children who are victims of exploitation and abuse that centers on restoring value, dignity and innocence.
- Establishing a residential restorative and rehabilitative facility for group placements for child victims of exploitation and abuse who do not have alternative family or foster placement.
- To provide education and vocational training to child victims at the residential facility.
- To create transition programs for residential child victims that equips them to transition from the institution to independent living without resort to illicit activities.
- To address mental, medical, emotional needs of victims through referrals for medical care and counseling and through direct provision of such services.
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