Overview
The Volunteer After-Care Programme (VAP) was jointly developed with the Prisons Department and launched in 1997 to provide befriending services and sustained aftercare support to discharged offenders.
The work of our volunteers complements the work done by our full-time social workers, case managers and aftercare officers. For any rehabilitation programme to succeed, the involvement of the community is important. SACA's volunteers are given the important role of befriending and delivering workshops to inmates who are about to be discharged. It is hoped that by doing so, their actions will demonstrate to these discharged offenders that society cares for and accepts them.
Given that working with our client group might pose a challenge to most, all new volunteers are required to undergo 7 intensive training sessions, to enable them to carry out the befriending and group work programmes successfully.
