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WISE-UP
The WISE-UP program provides a comprehensive range of services including counseling, training and development, advocacy, and support to meet the needs of victims and their families. Our support programs include temporary housing, health care, legal assistance, telephone hotlines, and emergency financial and general welfare support. We have created an extensive partner network and continue to collaborate with institutions and individuals to end the cycle of violence. WISE strives to complement existing services through collaborating with other agencies to provide integrated advocacy, education, training and counseling services that improve the living conditions of women and children survivors of violence in our community.
Counseling: WISE employs trained and experienced counselors to provide counseling services for survivors who are in crisis and are victims of violence. WISE's main purpose is to help these survivors find proper coping mechanisms and to empower them to go on with their lives. To ensure clients receive the necessary additional support, WISE has developed an extensive referral system that ensures clients' access to our partner service providers. In addition to our WISE Wellness Center, we have partnered with institutions throughout Ghana to ensure survivors can access our services. Counseling partner sites include:
FIDA, DOVVSU, Korle- Bu Poly Clinic, Kanesehie Poly Clinic, Buduburam & Krisan Refugee Camps
Training & Development: Through trainings and workshops, WISE builds build the capacity of survivors, partners, service providers, and staff. We conduct a wide range of trainings and workshops that target, women, men and children. We have trained government officials, community leaders, journalists, refugees, school children, market women, social workers, counselors, doctors, police and lawyers. In addition to capacity building, all of our trainings and workshops work to sensitize the participants to violence against women and children and enhance their ability to respond to incidents of violence in their communities.
Past workshops and trainings
Upcoming workshops and trainings
Advocacy: WISE mobilizes communities to identify and take responsibility for changing the aspects that legitimize the abuse of women and children. In addressing the abuse of women and children in our communities, it is clear that the role of culture, tradition and institutional structure must be seriously addressed and challenged. Because the effectiveness of any advocacy program targeting cultural and traditional practices depends on how involved the community is, the WISE Advocacy team implements strategies that involve communities. Our programs target various stakeholders and gatekeepers of practices which contribute to the vulnerability of survivors of violence.
Past Advocacy Campaigns and Events
Upcoming Advocacy Campaigns and Event
Support Services: Through a closely knit network of services and information providers, WISE and her partners are working to make the necessary services available to survivors of violence. Our referral system taps into a large network of service providers, mainly through the WISE founded Gender Violence Survivor Support Network. For shelter needs we refer to our partner, The Ark Foundation. A network of volunteer doctors and nurses ensure medical care for the abused. WISE joins forces with our partner FIDA and other legal advocates to provide legal assistance and information. Financial assistance is made available to cover costs of prescription, transportation and other emergency needs, when no other option is available. We work with lawyers who are willing to champion the legal cause of a battered woman, doctors who understand the importance of documentation and are willing to testify to their findings, police and welfare professionals who can attend to both the physical and psychological safety and needs of survivors. All these groups working as a network provide a reliable and successful support system.
Past workshops and trainings
Upcoming workshops and trainings
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