Adaptations and staff experiences in delivering parenting programmes and other family support services in three community-based organisations in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID pandemic

Figures & data

Table 1. Overview of the activities of the participating community-based organisations.

	Organisation A	Organisation B	Organisation C
Founded	1964 informally, 1992 formally	1989	2018
Staff members	123	9	4
Volunteers	1	1	2
Main areas of work	Senior citizen clubs, support for elderly, educares for young children, after-school clubs for teens, psychosocial support team, health programmes (e.g. vision screening), parenting programme	Support for elderly, parenting and fatherhood programmes, sustainable livelihoods, community feeding programme	Family support, education support, support for school dropouts, self-defence classes, skills development, psychosocial support, including a parenting programme, addressing substance use
Main areas of work during 2020–2021	Food distribution, counselling, referrals to social workers for assistance with various social problems including domestic violence, lack of South African IDs	Food distribution to the community	Food distribution and help with government poverty-relief grant applications
PLH programmes	PLH for Young Children and PLH for Parents and Teens	PLH for Parents and Teens	PLH for Parents and Teens
PLH delivery start	2018	2020	2020
Families in PLH	∼160 families	∼20 families	∼8 families

Figure 1. Overview of the themes (dimensions of the CICI framework in italics).

Data availability statement

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