Psychosocial care, life-skills formation and the steady adult presence that a separated child most often loses.
A child does not only lose a household when a mother is detained. They lose the person who noticed when something was wrong. YAKAP, the Filipino word for an embrace, is built around restoring that noticing.
The programme provides structured psychosocial sessions, supervised family contact where the facility and the courts permit it, life-skills formation appropriate to the child’s age, and a named caseworker who stays with the family across the whole period of separation rather than only at distribution events.
What the programme delivers
- Psychosocial support sessions facilitated by the Foundation’s social worker
- Supported mother–child contact within facility rules
- Life-skills and values formation for older children and youth
- Case management continuity from intake through reintegration