ACTION COMPASSION TENACITY
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What is ACT?
ACT is our casework division, combining Action and Compassion with Tenacity to tackle the human rights needs of individuals and families who come to us. ('Participants'.) On average, ACT has 20 active cases at any one time. These are a combination of individual and family situations involving up to 50 direct beneficiaries and this includes women, men and children. Cases range from relatively straightforward, and therefore short-term, to the more complex and correspondingly long-term. How does ACT work?
Participants work alongside volunteers to record problems, and work out how to begin to solve them. In this way the presenting participants are supported to directly involve themselves and acquire decision-making power about how to tackle their problems. They learn how systems actually work and what scope exists to change those systems’ responses to their needs. |