PDO YES! Program 

PDO Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES) is a dynamic, lively and fun program that is aimed at motivating and inspiring the youth to take responsibility for their lives.
The Youth Empowerment Seminar held, provided a comprehensive edutainment that was aimed at, inculcating discipline and good morals, promoting healthy lifestyles-both mental and physical health, releasing stress and finally raising self-awareness.
Objectives

• To inculcate discipline and good morals.
• To promote healthy lifestyles
• To raise awareness among teenagers

For adults, we organize professionally guided social events where our experts offer guidance on social and professional issues that young people grapple with on a daily basis, while providing opportunities for social interactions and networking for both business and social purposes

​The events address;

• Professional development  
  • Career guidance
• Relationship challenges
  • Dating
  • Divorce
  • Domestic violence
  • Marital problems
• Parenting
  • Single parenting
  • Raising teenagers
  • Raising children with special needs
• Addiction and Drug abuse
  • Counseling
  • Rehabilitation guidance
• Risky sexual behavior and pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and STIs
• LGBT issues
• Violence Schools

Some activities to help achieve solve these social problems using our experts includes

1. Meet up events – Kutana (trying to avoid dating as this is a highly stigmatized word)
   1. Weekend getaways designed for social interactions  – social and professional
   2. Speed dating dinners – co-organized with a local restaurant
   3. Singles getaway/social events  - singles, singles mums and dads,
   4. Single parenting seminars and meet ups events
   5. HIV +ve single events – mingling, social support, positive living guidance, group therapies
2. Boot camps for teenagers – during school holidays
3. Teambuilding 

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COUNSELLING

1. Family and marriage covers
   1.  relationship difficulties;
   2. domestic violence 
2. Loss and grief covers-
   1. HIV /AIDS, cancer, and other terminal illnesses for both patients and family
   2. Psychological trauma debriefing
3. Child and Adolescence covers
   1. Adolescent/ sexuality development
   2. Gender Identity
   3. eating disorders
4. Addiction counselling covers
   1.  Drugs/substance abuse
   2. Gambling addiction
5. Depression, anxiety disorders. Therapeutic approaches include;
   1.  Cognitive Behaviour therapy
   2.  Person Centered therapy
   3. Behavioral therapy
   4. eclectic therapy
   5. Family systems therapy

CONSULTANCIES

1. Stress management
2. Conflict managements
3. Life couching
4. Team building
5. Holiday camps for children

RESEARCH 

1.  Assessments, including assessment of mental health needs,
2.  Risk assessment 
3.  Psychometric testing for institutions.