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Services
For vulnerable children and families
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How do we attend them?
The JUCONI Approach
JUCONI’s own experience and results demonstrate that positive and lasting change
in the life of a street involved child victimized by violence requires an integrated
intervention that takes into account the key actors in her life. By coordinating efforts
with parents, siblings, teachers, neighbours, employers, etc., JUCONI is able to attain
and more importantly sustain the transition from exclusion to inclusion. This unique
“eco-systemic” approach is geared towards ensuring permanent success in 4 key areas of each
child’s life.
- Academic achievement: ensuring a child’s access to school and her sustained
success.
- Positive social relationships: creating abilities to foster and maintain positive
bonds with peers, neighbours, and authority figures.
- Economic opportunities (14 years or older): instilling the abilities and
values to guarantee success in the formal workforce.
- Family: creating positive, violence free communication and a family unit capable
of protecting all its members.
The children and families most marginalized by violence do not have the tools to seek out and
access services. As a result, JUCONI actively seeks out and contacts street involved children
and their families. The JUCONI process is comprised of 3 key steps:
- Initial Contact (“Operation Friendship”): in which street involved children and families
are initially contacted and befriended by a JUCONI educator. After establishing a trusting relationship,
they are invited to participate in the JUCONI program.
- Intensive Change: in which each child and family receive personalized, intensive support
that heals the wounds of violence and promotes positive communication, self esteem, and emotional
stability.
- Follow up: that ensures ongoing success and a personal and family mission that is free of
violence.
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