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Education, Training and Counselling
 About Education, Training and Counselling (ETC)
Education, Training and Counselling (ETC) aims to assist organisations to establish, or improve upon existing HIV/AIDS management systems by providing guidance and services to reduce the incidence (number of new infections) of HIV within their organization and effectively manage and
mitigate the current HIV/AIDS epidemic within the organization. (Prevalence).
Our vision is to assist organisations to effectively manage the risk that HIV represents by:
- Reducing the incidence of HIV by providing researched best practice prevention and
destigmatisation programmes.
- Reducing the impact upon those who are already infected by introducing Voluntary
Counselling and Testing and Wellness and Disease Management interventions to
improve quality of life and prolong life, and thus productivity and economic
sustainability.
- Providing HIV/AIDS management system guidelines, mentoring and coaching of
managers, peer educators, counsellors and occupational health nurses. By providing
project management of the HIV Quality Management System and evaluation or
auditing of current programmes.
ETC is by nature and size an SMME and thus, promotes the support of small businesses especially BEE small businesses. Many of our sub contractors are volunteers in their communities and rely upon the ETC contracts as their financial support to carry out their volunteer HIV related work.
We seek to source and train new sub contractors on an ongoing basis as our business increases throughout the country and beyond our borders.
ETC accredited training materials are utilized in training projects that require accredited
training. We contract preferred service providers per project & have the following service
providers available as resources: Project managers/coordinators/administrators; Psychologists; Social workers; Trained lay counsellors; Nurses; Trainers and facilitators; Auditors; Researchers/statisticians; A legal team; Actuaries; PLHWA?s ? People living positively with HIV or AIDS; Pantech ? supplies our HIV rapid test kits ? both screening and confirmatory. We work hand in hand with the Wellness and Disease Management organisation that is affiliated to the organisation?s medical aid provider or will assist the organisation with disease management by providing referral to HIV disease management services or chronic illness management or full medical aid through a number of Disease Management Organisations. Our team?s many and varied skills allow the company to operate successfully within the HIV/AIDS management, training, care and treatment domains, across all cultures, languages and levels of literacy.
The company is built on the principles of best practice benchmarking in HIV/AIDS interventions and behaviour modification for risk reduction. We combine research applications in education, prevention programmes, information and awareness programmes, behaviour modification for risk reduction, HIV testing, HIV and related counselling and positive living with HIV and the related opportunistic illnesses.
All educational interventions are based on researched best practice for achievement of
outcomes.
ETC has full accreditation with the Health and Welfare SETA (Accreditation number:
HW592PA05000128) and is a Registered Department of Education service provider (EDUC102ZNT).
We provide a comprehensive range of HIV/AIDS interventions to the business sector, government sector, NGO?s and Community Based Organisations. This comprehensive range of interventions includes but is not limited to: Consultation; Risk and situational analysis; Development of Policy and HIV committees; HIV/AIDS Education and training of all types; Voluntary Counselling and Testing (HIV); HIV/AIDS related Mentorship and coaching of Managers, Peer Educators,
Counsellors and Nurses; Auditing of HIV workplace programmes against the newly developed SANS 16001.
To assist organisations in effective risk management of the epidemic, ETC offers
the following interventions:
- A HIV/AIDS management systems analysis or gap analysis (situational analysis to determine the company?s profile, needs, gaps, vulnerability and susceptibility, past and present HIV interventions and current HIV related employee benefits). This analysis is compared with the existing company policy and a report is submitted outlining recommendations for targeted interventions specific to the needs of your particular business environment.
- Development and training of an HIV/AIDS committee.
- Development of an HIVAIDS Policy according to the Dept. of Labour Code of Good Practice and ILO ? including the intended procedures, programme, budget and timeline and Technical Assistance Guidelines (TAG)
- Development of a business place strategic plan to manage HIV/ AIDS.
- Development of the project plan with time lines, budget, allocated responsibility,
targets, objectives and success indicators.
- KABP Surveys. (also available in Zulu)
- Actuarial Economic Impact Surveys.
- Prevalence Surveys.
- Management seminars. (Senior and middle management).
- HIV/AIDS Peer Educator courses
- Peer Educator training programme includes a 36 week workplace curricula for the Peer educators to follow after their training. Monthly mentorship and coaching and a tracking and evaluation process. This course is available in English, Zulu and Sotho. It is currently being translated into Xhosa.
- Updates for existing Peer Educators
- HIV/AIDS Counsellor courses
- Basic 10 day and advanced 15 day course (for nurses, doctors, social workers, EAP service providers, HR managers, personnel officers and psychologists). We also offer a lay counselor course which is available in Zulu.
- Peer Counsellor training courses.
- Upgrade training for Peer educators requiring counselling skills
- Mentorship and coaching of Managers, Peer Educators, Peer Counsellors, Advanced Counsellors and Nurses.
- Wellness and disease management training for all categories of nurses.
- VCT ? provision of counselors to do on site pre-test counselling, HIV testing and post test counselling. (We can provide counsellors for most SA language requirements). Rapid technology is utilized. A report is issued to management regarding the uptake numbers and HIV positive and negative numbers within the company utilizing the VCT statistics. This report maintains a strict confidentiality protocol. The following demographics are only reported upon if they do not identify any specific employees, thus breaching the employee?s right to privacy and confidentiality. Gender, race, age, grade/band.
- Programme feedback and management consultation.
- Project management for the entire project
- Implementation of HIV QMS (Quality Management Systems) ? the ETC QMS includes features of the AMS 16001; ISO 9001, The Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, WHO and UNAIDS Best Practice Guidelines, and the newly developed SANS 16001 2007.
Education, Training and Counselling was created as an HIV consultancy in February 2001 by the current Managing Director ? Linzi Smith. ETC has provided various HIV related interventions to ? 200 different companies over the past 5 years. We have ongoing long term work with 14 of these organizations.
Contacting ETC
Louise Walker/Karyn Taylor - Tel: 031 207 7178; Fax: 031 207 6220; Cell: 084 580 3471; Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
Website: www.edutc.co.za
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