Welcome To Queen of Peace

We are a Nonprofit making Private Voluntary Organization (PVO28/13) that takes pride in the strides that we are making towards Prevention, Promotion and Providing Service to our communities in terms of Mental Health.

Queen of Peace Rehabilitation and crisis Centre is a registered private voluntary organization (PVO 28/13) whose mandate is to provide structural residential rehabilitation programs and reintegrate back into society people with mental health challenges thus enabling them to be self-reliant. The centre was founded in 2006 as a half way home for children and adults with mental challenges. At its foundation, Queen of Peace Rehabilitation and Crisis centre provided temporal shelter for patients with mental challenges while providing them with rehabilitation. Such patients included adults and streets wonderers, people with drug problems and homeless people around the city of Gweru.

The Organization opened its doors to the public in 2009 upon realizing that there was a gap in the availability and provision of mental health services in the Province. It envisions a society where mental wellness and psychological wellbeing is the foundation of a healthy community and provides effective and innovative mental health care.Accordingly, the organization’s core activities include:

1. Promotion of Mental health wellbeing
2. Mental health advocacy
3. Mental health education
4. Life skills training
5. Vocational skills training for self-sustenance
6. Reintegration into the community as productive members of the society
7. Psychosocial support for vulnerable populations (Persons with psychosocial disabilities, women, orphans and other vulnerable children)

Queen of Peace owns and runs a Rural Rehabilitation Centre (Queen of peace Dopton Therapeutic community Centre) located on a 80.6ha piece of land near Whawha Prison. The Rural Rehabilitation community facility seeks to provide a comprehensive rehabilitation and life skills training for special needs children both in school and out of school. The rehabilitees are enrolled as referrals from the department of social welfare, Schools Psychological Services mental health hospitals, Zimbabwe prison services and other mental health institutions across the country. The goal being to empower people living with disabilities through various projects; thereby fighting Stigma, discrimination and gender inequality. Queen of peace is currently housing 47 people with psychosocial disabilities who can be empowered through these projects and can cascade through startups of their own. Currently there is a running goat project that is promoting responsibility, nutrition and income generation for their upkeep. The proposed project will be implemented at this facility targeting the QPRTC rehabilitees, Whawha community working group, QPRTC community security support group, QPRTC community nutritional garden members and the wider Whawha community members. The organization and QPRTC in particular has been working with the above community groups (mainly composed of women, orphans, and care givers of people with mental health disabilities) and HIV positive individuals. The organization’s corporate governance is overseen by a Board of Trustees elected at the Annual General Meeting for a term of 3 years. The organization’s secretariat has a staff compliment of 10 (headed by the Executive director) which is responsible for the day-to-day smooth running of the program activities. The organization has a constitution and a policy procedures manual that regulates internal relationships and provides overall administrative policy guidance. QPRCC has livestock projects which serve a dual purpose of income generation and livelihood skills training for rehabilitees. It also involved in sensitization and awareness against substance abuse among adolescents and youth as well as awareness on mental health issues so as to bring this issues out of the shadows. The organization has plans to expand the school mental health program to rural schools targeting children in special classes (special needs children) and capacity building their teachers in terms of life skills and vocational skills training. Most of the children in special classes see themselves spending many years in one grade/level which is a clear indication that there is no adequate resources and capacity in our schools to empower these children in order for then to excel just lie any other child within the school.

Who WeAre

Queen of Peace Rehabilitation and Crisis Centre is a strategic organization that rehabilitates patients with mental health challenges. It provides them with rehabilitation, reintegration facilities and basic life skills education. The institution has boarding facilities at the center which enables the rehabilitate children and a few adults due to limited facilities which gives us maximum time to monitor their progress and behavior. Patients are received from all over through referrals and also round up programs that we conduct periodically

The organisation is currently operating on a small scale capacity due to limited finances and facilities. With the right funding, there are huge opportunities for the organization to expand and make a lasting impact. The Centre survives on donations which are rare to come by in these inflationary and tough economic days.

1. Life and Social Skills
2. Vocational training
3. Provide psychosocial support to stigmatized persons and vulnerable children and women
4. School mental health Programs
5. Outreach programs on mental health
6. Rehabilitation of severely mentally challenged persons from the streets (Community Round up) Horticulture

Occupational therapy

1. Reality orientation,
2. Community safety,
3. ADL training (activities of daily living),
4. Insight gaining
5. Social skills training
6. Arts and crafts
7. Educational games
8. Music and dance therapy,
9. Memory skills training,
10. Horticulture
11. Speech, language and dysphagia treatment
12. Oral motor
13. Speech
14. Swallow
15. Expressive language
16. Receptive language
17. Memory& cognition
18. Physiotherapy
19. Physical fitness

Speech, language and dysphagia treatment

1. Oral motor
2. Speech
3. Swallow
4. Expressive language
5. Receptive language
6. Memory& cognition
7. Physiotherapy
8. Physical fitness

Why Choose Us

In environments where mental health is not valued, promoted and protected, mental health disorders are not prevented and persons affected by these disorders are not able to exercise the full range of their rights and to access appropriate healthy care and social care in a timely way to promote recovery, all in order to attain the highest possible level of health and participate fully in society .

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